The mirror, with flowered temple-pediment, is conceived in the Roman manner promoted in George II's reign by Isaac Ware's, Designs of Inigo Jones and Others, 1731, E. Hoppus's, The Gentleman and Builder's Repository, or Architecture Display'd, 1737, and William Jones's, The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739. Its laurel-wreathed cornice is supported by antiqued composite pilasters, which derive from the 'Arch of Titus', while the bacchic lion-mask and the bases's console-brackets are garlanded with oak. Its architecture as well as its fretted moulding of flowered ribbon-guilloche (which relates to a 'tabernacle frame' pattern published in Batty Langley's, Builder's Jewell, 1741 (pl. 78)) corresponds to the work of the Booker family of Essex Bridge, Dublin discussed by The Knight of Glin, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History, Leeds, 1985 (p. 261).
A related mirror by John and William Booker was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 27 June 1985, lot 130.