Mirror
Category
Mirrors
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pine, limewood, gesso, water gilding, mirror glass
Measurements
1410 x 657 x 140 mm
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Montacute House, Somerset
NT 598238
Summary
One of a pair of George I giltwood and gesso pier glasses, circa 1722, each with rectangular bevelled plate in a foliate carved frame with pierced trefoil cresting and scroll base, base re-gilt, orignal plates.
Provenance
Commissioned by Sir John Chester, 4th Bt (1666-1726) or his son Sir John Chester, 5th Bt (1693-1748), for Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire; thence by descent to Major John Greville Bagot Chester, MC (1925-2011); accepted in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Montacute, 2012.