Each oval-medallioned frame with husk-festooned urn and veil-draped bracket relates to pier-glass patterns published in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pls. 117 and 118. It also relates to patterns of the 1770s in John Linnell's designs preserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum (see: M. Jourdain, English Furniture and Decoration of the later 18th Century, 1922, p. 175)