Mayhew & Ince
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR
Date 1760
Period 1750-1850, 18th century
Origin England
Medium Giltwood
Dimension 179 x 70 cm (70¹/₂ x 27¹/₂ inches)
Note: A strikingly similar mirror with very similar bird and also hung with garlands is in the collection at Burghley, Lincolnshire, in the ‘Brown Drawing Room’. This mirror is also attributed to Mayhew and Ince, who supplied many furnishings to the house in the 18th century.
Date: 1760
Period: 1750-1850, 18th century
Origin: England
Medium: Giltwood
Dimension: 179 x 70 cm (70¹/₂ x 27¹/₂ inches)
Provenance: Mallett & Son Ltd., London.
Private collection, USA.
Literature: Lady Victoria Leatham, Jon Culverhouse and Eric Till, Burghley, England’s Greatest Elizabethan House, 2009, p. 32.
Illustrated:
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, 1990, p. 110, pl. 128.
Lanto Synge, Mallett Millennium, 1999, p. 190, fig. 243.
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