IN THE MANNER OF JOHN BELCHIER, CIRCA 1700

The gadrooned frame and the distinctive broad scrolls correspond to a satyr-headed pier-glass designed in the early 1720s for Erddig, Wales and identified as the work of the St. Paul's Churchyard cabinet-maker John Belchier (d.1753) (see: O. Garnett, Erddig, 1999, p. 18). Another mirror from the collection of Judge Irwin Untermyer and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art also shares these characteristics (illustrated in Y.Hackenbroch, ed., English Furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl.137).