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THE MACCLES FIELD MIRRORS
Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire
A PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED
GILTWOOD PIER MIRRORS, CIRCA 1760,
IN THAT MANNER OF WILLIAM & JOHN
LINNELL
the central rectangular plate within a border of marginal plates
with pilaster uprights entwined with branches, the shaped
pediment cresting surmounted by a Ho-Ho bird on a rocky
outcrop, the whole decorated with C-scrolls, acanthus and
icicles, the apron centred on an upturned vase within a scrolled
foliate border
223cm.
RELATED LITERATURE
Helena Hayward, Pat Kirkham, William and John Linnell,
Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers
Cassel Ltd, London, 1980, Vol I & II
Furniture History Society, Vol.
5, The Drawings of John Linnell
in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1969)
Helena Hayward
P. Kirkham, The careers of William and John Linnell
History Society, 1967
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
Beard and Christopher Gilbert (Leeds, 1986), pp
520-563.
British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
no-series/dict-english-furniture-makers/l [accessed 19
October 2021].
British History Online, St.
James’s Square: Nos 9, 10 & 11,
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols29-30/
pt1/pp118-134.
Studio Vista,
pp.
1-115,
117-118,
Furniture
ed.Geoffrey
PROVENANCE
Possibly acquired by George Parker, 2 nd Earl of Macclesfield
(1697 – 1764), or
George Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield (d 1795);
Thence by descent
high, 104cm.
wide; 7ft.3¾in.,
3ft.5in.
W £ 100,000-150,000
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