George Murray is recorded in the Dublin directories in Dawson Street in the late 1820s and he is presumably the maker of the frames of these mirrors (D. Fitzgerald, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', F.H.S.J., 1985, p. 270). The Butler family were among the largest dealers in antique furniture in Dublin when it began to be actively collected in the late 19th Century. They sold many pieces to Sir Edward Guinness, later 1st Earl of Iveagh, of which several were included in Christie's house sale at Elveden Hall, Norfolk, in May 1984 (ibid., p. 262).