Pair of NeoClassical Painted Pier-Glasses or Mirrors
A fine pair of large pier glasses in the Neoclassical style, the rectangular plates with laurel-draped vase crestings and flanked by chains of husks, the aprons also with laurel swags, painted in grey/white on a blue-green ground
Height 168 cm (66 inches)
Width 71 cm (28 inches)
English or Dutch, 19th Century
John Linnell produced a whole series of drawings in the late 1760s, some here illustrated, for pier-glasses with central urns to the crestings, usually festooned with laurel or husk swags, and these drawings may have provided inspiration for the present mirrors