Table mirror
Category
Mirrors
Date
Unknown
Materials
wood, glass, brass
Measurements
485 x 335 x 195 mm
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 637134
Summary
Early 19th century mahogany dressing mirror with a single drawer below a framed swing mirror; the mirror with cast brass paterae to each corner and the frame strung with satinwood. Satinwood stringing to the uprights with mother of pearl dots and to the scrolling pediment above (with two more paterae). The drawer with canted corners, a concave front (strung), and cast brass knob. The whole raised on two brass ball feet and two square wooden feet.
Provenance
1944, gifted to the National Trust by Field Marshal Sir Archibald and Lady Montgomery Massingberd.