Details
Of rectangular shape with foliate c-scrolls, and trailing vines and flowers, the crest adorned with a ho-ho bird, the plate old and possibly original or re-used from an older mirror frame
61 in. (154.9 cm.) high, 2812 in. (72.4 cm) wide
Provenance
Acquired from Jeremy, Ltd., London.
Literature
H. Schiffer, The Mirror Book: English, American, and European, fig. 257.
F.L. Hinkley, Queen Anne and Georgian Looking Glasses: Old English and Early American, p. 176, fig. 211.
The Grosvenor House Antiques Dealers' Fair Handbook, 1958, p. 58.
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Lot Essay

Thomas Chippendale's contemporary, the carver Matthias Lock (d.1765) was amongst pattern-book authors for elegant George II French inspired 'picturesque' frames, featuring birds perched on rustic arbors of branch-entwined pilasters as seen on the present lot. Lock's related patterns, published in conjunction with Henry Copland in A New Book of Ornaments, 1752, were generally intended for mirror-fitted frames that modernized and broadened the headed pier-glass plates introduced at the beginning of the 18th century. One such pier-glass, attributed to Lock, is in the Methuen Collection at Corsham Court, Wiltshire (see: M. Snodin, Rococo Arts and Design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, pl. 19).

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