The pier glass, with pearl-gadrooned frame and serpentined arched cresting in the French fashion popularised by Daniel Marot (d. 1752) 'architect' to King William III is etched with a flower-basket and relates to a verre eglomisé mirror at Penshurst Place, Kent (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev.ed., 1954, vol. II, p. 322, fig. 28). These mirrors can possibly be attributed to the celebrated glass-maker John Gumley (d. 1729), who in 1702 supplied Wriothesley, 2nd Duke of Bedford with a 'neat panel of glass with a top' for £60. The following year he signed a pier-glass, with bevelled mirror borders which is at Chatsworth, and he also signed a mirror-bordered pier-glass now at Hampton Court Palace. In 1715, in partnership with James Moore, he was appointed cabinet-maker to King George I (R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955, rev. ed., fig. 16, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 379 and 380 and I. Caldwell, 'John Gumley the Glassmaker', The Antique Collector, January 1989).

A related pair of giltwood and mirror-bordered pier glasses was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 13 October 1994, lot 123.