A PAIR OF GILTWOOD PIER GLASSES

The oval medallion pier-glasses are designed in the George III Roman fashion of the 1770s and relate in particular to two 18th century patterns. One from the workshop of the Berkeley Square firm of William and John Linnell and illustrated in H. Hayward & P. Kirkham William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, p. 102, fig. 196. The other design is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Thomas Chippendale for a mirror at Harewood House, Yorkshire, illustrated in I. Hall, 'Chippendale Drawings Relating to Harewood', Leeds Arts Calendar, 1971, figs. 1 and 2.

Their entwined and beribboned branches relate to a mirror in the possession of Messrs A. Cook, illustrated in G. Wills, English Looking-Glasses, London, 1965 (fig. 113).