CIRCA 1745-50, IN THE MANNER OF MATTHIAS LOCK

This elegant pier glass in the full rococo manner is inspired by an earlier model published in Matthias Lock’s Six Sconces in 1744 (plate 4); a pier glass after Lock’s design sold Christie’s, London, 6 July 2017, lot 13 (£87,500 inc. premium). Lock’s designs were highly influential, and much emulated through dissemination in a series of pattern books. The Lock example features facing male and female terms, a model that was adapted by Thomas Chippendale in an engraving dated 1760, reproduced in his third edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1762, plate CLXX, and also in the designs of Lock’s protégé Thomas Johnson, illustrated in his Collection of Designs (1758), plate 5, and One Hundred & Fifty New Designs (1761), plate 31.