A FINELY CARVED PINE PIER MIRROR EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF MATTHIAS LOCK With shaped rectangular plate, the frame pierced and carved with rockwork, scrolling foliage, pomegrate, flower heads and satyre masks, the cresting with Cupid's bow and arrow, the apron with cornucopia of flowers, 178cm high, 102cm wide Provenance: Formerly the Messel family collection at Nymans Removed to The Padouk Room at Holmstead Manor in 1947 after the disastrous fire and thence by descent to Oliver Messel Supplied by Oliver Messel to Frederick and Phyllis Baden Watkins for Flaxley Abbey Mirrors with opposing satyr head masks are usually attributed to Matthias Lock based on the design published in his Six Sconces (1744, 1768), plate 4 (ed. E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, reprinted 2000, p. 325). An etching from the original pattern book consisting of six plates of designs for wall-mirrors and sconces (with brackets for holding candles) is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (27811:6). A pier glass after this design was made for John, 2nd Earl Poulett (1708-1764), for the Tapestry Room at Hinton House, Hinton St George, Somerset (V&A, W.8-1960). Another mirror is at Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire (R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Woodbridge, rev. edn. 1954, vol. II, p. 339, fig. 72). A pair of English giltwood pier glasses, c. 1760, attributed to Lock is at Uppark House, West Sussex (NT 137655.1-2). A related mirror of similar date is illustrated in G. Wills, English Looking-glasses, London, 1965, p. 87, no. 61.