The frame of the pearl-banded glass is embellished with a ribbon-guilloche of flowered-acanthus in the elegant French/antique manner of the 1780s. This ribbon-guilloche also features on the drawing-room pier-glasses supplied at this period for Broadlands, Hampshire and tentively attributed to Messrs Ince & Mayhew of Golden Square (see: H. Roberts, 'The Ince and Mayhew Connection' Country LIfe, 29 January 1981, p. 288, fig. 1). This mirror, from Hampton Court, Hertfordshire, may have been commissioned by George Capel, 5th Earl of Essex following his inheritance of the estate in 1781