Provenance:
Stair & Company, London

Note:
This pair of girandole mirrors utilize design elements similar to those illustrated in Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director. Each of the unusual cartouche-form mirrors is bordered by a deeply carved flower and leaf drop at both sides. This element appears to possibly be inspired by Chippendale's illustrations of "Designs for Clock Cases". The delicate scrolled candle branches of each example and dripping icicles (beneath the crest of the mirror and where the candle branches issue forth) are a skillful execution of components pictured in Chippendale’s designs for "Girandoles" and "Glass Frames". The mirrors appear as a confident and inventive reimagining of Chippendale’s most recognizable design elements.  

See Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (New York: Dover Publications Inc. 1996), plates CLXVI, CLXVII, CLXXVII, and CLXXVIII.