These richly-carved gueridon stands for candelabra or vases are designed in the George III 'antique' style of the 1770s and can be attributed to John Linnell (d.1796), cabinet-maker and upholsterer of Berkeley Square. With their tripod-altar plinths, vase-capped pedestal form and festive husk-festooned ram-masks, they relate to the popular athenienne stands of the period. The design, incorporating additional ram-masks above the anathus-scrolled feet, appears in John Linnell's design, no.554, executed for a Mr. Harries in 1776 (see: H.Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell', Furniture History, 1969, fig.70). The stands appear to been commissioned from Linnell by Jeffery, Lord Amherst (d.1797) about the time of his elevation as Baron Amherst of Holmesdale in 1776, in recognition of his military successes in Canada, where he had been Commander-in-Chief of British forces. He renamed his family estate at Riverhead, Kent, as 'Montreal' and in the same year he ordered wall-lights from Linnell whose design survives in the Linnell archives at the Victoria and Albert Museum (no.E.3586-1911).

This mirror-bordered pier-glass with gadrooned inner border framed by flower-festooned acanthus-scrolls derives from 'Glass Frame' patterns in the French 'picturesque' style, such as Thomas Chippendale illustrated in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1763, pl. CLXXXVIIa. However, its sacred-urn finial above a sunflower medallion relates more closely to the type of frames designed by John Linnell (d. 1796), cabinet-maker and upholsterer of Berkeley Square, in the mid-1770s (see: H. Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Furniture History Journal, Leeds, 1969, fig. 105