A George II period parcel gilt and walnut mirror, the wonderful colour and continuously gilt wood edge uprights carved with very fine fruit and foliage, a fine inner border of gesso. The top surmounted with a very well carved cartouche between the swan neck pediment. In the manner of Thomas Aldersey.

Large architectural looking glasses of this style follow the form of early Georgian tabernacle from designs published by Thomas Chippendale and the British architects James Gibbs and Isaac Ware. Such looking glasses were popular among wealthy American colonists in the decade before the Revolution. While newspaper advertisements indicate that some of these glass frames were carved and gilded locally, microanalysis has shown the majority were made in England and imported to the colonies. One at Yale University of the same general design is labelled by Thomas Aldersey ( active 1754-1781 ), a cabinetmaker, upholsterer,and 'glass grinder' working at four different addresses in London over a thirty year period.
RR
c. 1735
Height51.00 inch(129.5 cm)
Width27.00 inch(68.6 cm)
Ref No. 2712