Pier mirrors with painted eglomise panels that illustrate an eagle enclosed in an oval surrounded by garlands of flowers, are associated with manufacture in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. This attribution may be based upon an example labeled by George Dean of Salem, agent for S. Lothrop's Looking Glass Manufactory, also located in Salem (see American Antiques from Isreal Sack, vol. VII, 1983, P5070, p. 1904). A nearly identical mirror, however, also with a rare green oval as in this example, sold in the Philip Flayderman sale in 1930 and was labeled by the Looking Glass & Picture-Frame Manufactory of Peter Grinnel & Son, Providence, Rhode Island. (Anderson Galleries, New York, January 2-4, lot 402). The depiction of virtually the same scene on glasses sold in each of these two mercantile centers provokes speculation on several fronts: one that the glass was imported from England and distributed along the coast to various trading centers; that the glass was actually painted in one of the port communities and exported in coastal trade; or that it was simply copied through exposure in either center and integrated into the other's repertoire. The presence of white pine from the frame and backboards, indicates that the frame was made in America.

This looking glass is more finely executed than related examples, with dainty flowers and tendrils where others are heavier in execution. The handling of the eagle with spread wings and shield, is also finer and is highlighted with a green background, rather than leaving it white as with most other examples.

Related mirrors are also illustrated in Antiques, vol. 131, no. 5 (May, 1987): 961; Christie's, sale 7294, June 25, 1991, lot 159; Nutting, Furniture Treasury, vol. 2 (New York, 1948), figs. 3085, 3090; American Antiques from Isreal Sack Collection, vol. III, 1972, P3238, p. 847; vol. IX, 1989, P6127, p. 2525.