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Lot Essay
This mirror-bordered overmantel-glass is designed in the George III 'antique' style of the 1770s, and its central section is canted forward in the fashion favoured by architects such as Sir John Soane (d. 1837). Its fluted plinth, sacred-urn finial with ram-headed handles, beaded inner-borders and flanking husk-festooned brackets of acanthus-scrolls with rosette-enriched volutes, feature in designs by John Linnell (d. 1795), cabinet-maker and upholsterer of Berkeley Square, such as his pier-glass design of 1775 (see: H. Hayward, 'The Drawings of John Linnell in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Furniture History Journal, Leeds, 1969, fig. 105).
Related elements can also be found in pier-glass which were designed in 1777 by the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792) and probably executed by Linnell for Osterley Park, Middlesex (see: M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p. 84)
Related elements can also be found in pier-glass which were designed in 1777 by the architect Robert Adam (d. 1792) and probably executed by Linnell for Osterley Park, Middlesex (see: M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p. 84)