BY JOHN BELCHIER

John Belchier (d. 1753) traded from around 1717 as a 'Cabinet and Looking Glass Maker' in St. Pauls Churchyard, where he made 'all sorts of fine Peer and Chimney-glasses, and Glass Sconces' and offered a great choice of goods 'Ready Made'. This 'chimney-glass', which corresponds to that illustrated in the Stukeley interior of the 1720s, is likely to have been fitted originally with 'glass sconce' candlebranches. This pattern of label features on his mirrored bureau-cabinet illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 84, figs. 63 and 64.