Pier glass
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 - 1820
Materials
Wood, paint, gesso, gilt, silvered glass
Measurements
249 x 136 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608121.3
Summary
A painted and parcel-gilt pier glass, English, early 19th century. Standing behind a marble-topped giltwood and amboyna console table [NT 608121.1 and NT 608121.2]. Of arched form, topped by a separate plate of demi-circular glass in a frame with lotus leaf spandrels and painted off-white with giltwood moulded edges and applied gilt stars and quatrefoil rosettes. The large rectangular plate below with a conforming frame. -- The Boudoir in which this mirror stands is believed to have been completed in the 1780s for Anne Vernon, 1st Lady Berwick (1744 - 1797). This mirror, however, is probably slightly later, circa 1800 - 1820, whilst the table is probably later still, circa 1825 - 1830. When the contents of the room were detailed in the Bankruptcy Sale which took place in 1827 a mirror, festooned with blue and white damask drapes to match those at the window opposite, did stand on this wall.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Attingham Park in 1861 (p. 100) and in the Inventory taken there in 1913 (p. 67). By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and partial contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) and transferred to the National Trust on 15th May 1953.