The Favour Royal Estate, County Tyrone, was granted to the Patterson-Moutray Family by James I.

The serpentined mirror with rustic tree-entwined architecture and exotic long-tailed bird relates to frame patterns in the George II picturesque manner published by the carver Thomas Johnson in his Twelve Girandoles, 1755 and Collection of Designs, 1758. Related Johnson elements feature on a mirror at the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated in H.F.Schiffer, The Mirror Book, Pennsylvania, 1983, fig. 260.