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popularized by William Kent whose work at Houghton Hall in Norfolk and Chiswick House in London for Robert Walpole helped to establish the Palladian style
Predating Stalker and Parker’s manual A Treatise of Japanning
Mirror was dry stripped (or scraped) and regilded
Block front chests are very rare in English furniture
An early fall front japanned cabinet on its original base
George II Carved Gesso Mirror lignum vitae popularized by William Kent whoseA fine George II carved gesso mirror with a stylized shell flanked by apposing eagle heads, with carved scrolls at the top and the base, with carved gesso foliage on a punched background having a molded and carved gesso frame around a later beveled mirror plate. Ht. 52", width 28 1 2"
