GEORGE II IRISH GILT-WOOD SQUIRREL MIRROR
£ 24,000.00
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A GEORGE II IRISH GILT-WOOD SQUIRREL MIRROR, CIRCA 1755.
The frame carved with scrolls and rocaille with a leafy cresting flanked by squirrels, the apron centred by a mask.
69in. (175cm) high; 34in. (87cm) wide.
This belongs to a distinctive group of Irish rococo mirrors carved with squirrels. A very similar mirror is illustrated in Irish Furniture, The Knight of Glin and James Peill, 2007, p.264 fig. 238.
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