Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, p. 80, illustrated this pattern of elliptical-fronted dressing or shaving-mirror with oval medallion inlay with the explanation, 'the tops of which turn over on each side; the glass to each draws up the back and is supported by a spring stop.. within the doors is a place for water bottles, etc. The drawer is designed to hold napkins etc'. This example is richly inlaid with scrolled and flowered branches that are ribbon-tied on the frieze and suspended from wheat-filled cornucopiae on the pilasters as featured on a semi-circular sideboard sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 2 February 1991, lot 266. The shaving-table supplied for Thomas Langford-Brooke (d. 1815) by Messrs. Gillows has flute-inlaid feet corresponding to those of the drawing-room card-table (lot 53)