Mirror
Category
Mirrors
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Giltwood, paint, mirror glass
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 617633.1
Caption
The drawing room was Thomas Harley’s principal sitting room and was described in 1796 as ‘very elegantly finished and furnished’. It features a pair of pier-glasses with sprays of leaves and garlands above which were part of the original decorative scheme for the room.
Summary
One of a pair of large giltwood and white-painted mirrors, English, circa 1790. Positioned above the pair of giltwood console tables (NT 617632). Each rectangular mirror plate within a foliate border and surmounted by a painted frieze centred with a bold gilt floral spray surmounted with a wreath and below a ribbon-tied husk swag.
Provenance
Accepted in lieu of death-duties in 1954 and transferred to the National Trust in 1959.