A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OVAL MIRROR by Thomas Fentham, the oval plate within a pierced frame carved with scrolling foliage, C-scrolls and acanthus, the pierced cresting surmounted by an acanthus spray above a shaped canopy with grimacing eagle, the pierced apron with a confronting C-scroll cartouche and with central cabochon within an acanthus spray, with label to the reverse THOMAS FENTHAM NO. 136 STRAND NEAR SOMERSET-HOUSE MANUFACTURER OF LOOKING-GLASSES CONVEX AND CONCAVE MIRRORS, AND ALL SORTS OF PICTURES AND GLASS FRAMES GLASS FROM EXPORTATION, regilt

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD OVAL MIRROR by Thomas Fentham, the oval plate within a pierced frame carved with scrolling foliage, C-scrolls and acanthus, the pierced cresting surmounted by an acanthus spray above a shaped canopy with grimacing eagle, the pierced apron with a confronting C-scroll cartouche and with central cabochon within an acanthus spray, with label to the reverse THOMAS FENTHAM NO. 136 STRAND NEAR SOMERSET-HOUSE MANUFACTURER OF LOOKING-GLASSES CONVEX AND CONCAVE MIRRORS, AND ALL SORTS OF PICTURES AND GLASS FRAMES GLASS FROM EXPORTATION, regilt
57in. x 37in. (145cm. x 94cm.)

Lot Essay

The oval pier-glass, wreathed by flower-festooned acanthus-scrolls in the George III 'picturesque' style, relates to 'Glass frame' patterns published by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1763, pl. CLXXII

Thomas Fentham (d.1825) was a carver and gilder in the Strand, London. Some of his furniture supplied to Philip Yorke for his Park Lane house in the 1770s, is now at Erthig, Denbighshire and it is possible that he supplied the related oval pier-glass now hanging in its Tapestry Room (See 'Erthig', Country Life, 16 August 1930, p.211 and M. Waterson, 'Elizabeth Ratcliffe', Apollo, July 1978)

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