GEORGE III GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR, BY JAMES THOMPSON OF EDINBURGH
CIRCA 1767
£10,710
Auction: Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Description
the partial divided mirror plate in a frame of foliate trails, C scrolls and surmounted by a large anthemion finial, within shaped margin plates
Dimensions
285cm high, 146cm wide
Provenance
Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet of Penicuik (1709 – 1782), Penicuik House, Midlothian. Thence by descent
Footnote
Note: This mirror, and the other pier mirror in the sale, lot 47, were made by the Edinburgh gilder and carver John Thomson and recorded in the Penicuik House ledgers in 1770. Thomson first appears in the journal on 16th September 1767 where he is paid £8 ‘by the hands of Mr Blaikie to Accompt’ and makes his final appearance in an entry on 1 December, 1773 where he is paid £144: 1: 8 ‘for Carving picture frames and gilding in Dining room’. In total he was paid £410 for his work at Penicuik. Listed as the ‘Green Room Frame’, it cost £15: 6: 6 for the frame with additional costs of £5:15:- for gilding and burnishing, £6:7:3 for the border glass, and - : 9: 11 for silvering the plates. Thomson also supplied frames and mirrors to Robert Dundas for Arniston House, the Earl of Hopetoun for Dalkeith Palace, and for the Duke of Buccleuch at Drumlanrig Castle.