ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC L. PLATT (W. 1815-1835), NEW YORK, 1820-1835

This pier glass appears to be identical in every detail except the ornament applied within the scrolled corners to at least two other mirrors, one of which bears the label of Isaac L. Platt, a looking glass "manufacturer and importer" working on lower Broadway, New York from 1815 to 1835. While the mirror offered here features carved shells in the corners' interiors, the labeled example has plain rondels and the third example has carved rosettes (for the labeled example, see Peter Hill advertisement, Antiques (November 1967), p. 633 and the third is illustrated in Classical America 1815-1845, The Newark Museum (The Newark Museum, 1963), cat. 65). In the Newark exhibition catalogue, the author cites another identical mirror bearing the label of Isaac Platt and now in the hall of Fountain Elms, Utica, New York, which may be the same object offered by Peter Hill in 1967.