This mirror, with its reeded pilasters, baluster-turned columns and stamped brass mounts relates to a stamped John H. Williams looking glass in the collection of the New York State Museum. Williams worked on Pearl Street in New York City where he operated a Looking Glass Warehouse from 1820-1844. Two other mirrors from New York, which fashion the cast brass mounts and reeded plinths, but vary otherwise, are labeled by looking glass manufacturers in Troy and Utica, and signify the prevalance and preferance of particular ornament throughout the state (see, Scherer, New York Furniture at the New York State Museum (Virginia, 1983), figs. 47, 59, 61).