The rectangular plate flanked by pilasters and leafy branches, surmounted by a scrolled rocaille cresting centered by a monkey seated beneath an acanthus canopy wearing clothes and a wig and holding a hand mirror, the base of the mirror with linked C-scrolls centered by an acanthus rocaille, regilt

A mirror from Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, family seat of the Marquesses of Rockingham displays a similar monkey in gentleman's costume seated beneath a foliated canopy cresting and is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol.II, p.334, fig.73.