Pier glass
John Linnell (1729 - 1796)
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Deal, Gesso, Paint, Silvered glass
Measurements
1350 x 840 x 60 mm
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771818
Summary
Pier-glass, frame of gilded pine, bevelled glass. The glass is enclosed within a ribbon and rosette moulding, flanked at either side by a bolection moulding. When the mirror was restored in 1972 no trace of gilding was found under the gold paint.
Provenance
Osterley Park Heirloom
Makers and roles
John Linnell (1729 - 1796), maker