Looking glass
Category
Mirrors
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and glass
Measurements
700 x 1560 x 42 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485476
Summary
A three-section looking glass with original glass, with a wider central section, in a fixed moulded frame painted ensuite with the room.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.