George III Mahogany Firescreen
Having a fine rectangular petit point panel within a pierce-carved mahogany surround, adorned with bundled reeds and meandering vines. The scrolled tripod support, with mantled cabochons raised on acanthus-carved supports, ends in scrolled feet.
English, circa 1760.
Pictured in Percy Macguoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. III, p. 73, fig. 15.
Ex-collection: M. Harris, 1927.