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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER MIRROR ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHIAS LOCK CIRCA 1750-60 The deep foliate scrolling cresting surmounted by an eagle above Amphitrite's mask draped with rope nets containing fish being attentively watched by craning hoho birds, the central plate divided by a fountain with four graduated tiers modelled to appear as if running with water flanked by palm uprights with stylised dolphins and trumpeting mermen at their base the lower part of the mirror divided with a stylised key-pattern bar above Poseidon's mask hung with garlands of shells above a massive stylised shell, with a Leverhulme inventory number, ‘X.900’, and a Druce & Co., Baker Street depository label inscribed 'Leverhulme', the eagle cresting probably added in the 19th century, a small number of plates replaced, minor restorations, re-gilt 109 x 51 ½ in. (277 x 131 cm.) Provenance Possibly commissioned by Charles Polhill (1725-1805) for Chipstead Place, near Chevening, Kent, or purchased by the art-collector Frederick Perkins following his acquisition of Chipstead Place in the early 19th century until acquired by William Spottiswoode (1825-1883) for Combe Bank, Kent With Litchfield & Sons of 3 Bruton Street, London, acquired by William Hesketh Lever 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925) on 31 December 1915, with the provenance of 'from the Spottiswood Collection, Coombe bank, originally from Chipstead'. Kelso Ltd., 61 South Audley Street, London where acquired by Drue Heinz, March 1961, as recorded in the Heinz archive. Ascot Place, Berkshire until 1987 and subsequently moved to Drue Heinz's London house.