A GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR
CIRCA 1765
The divided plates within mirrored borders with carved gothic columns, cusps and arches, rockwork, foliage and surmounted by ho-ho birds flanked by flaming urns and with foliate-carved arched cresting, the lower plate and some of the border plates replaced
94 x 44 in. (239 x 112 cm.)

Provenance

A gift from William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848-1919) to his son Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952) and his wife, Nancy Astor, who inherited the family estate at Cliveden, in Buckinghamshire.