Robert Cribb is recorded at his High Holborn Street address from 1790 until 1834. His son joined the business in 1806 when the firm became known as Cribb & Son, thus dating this mirror to before 1806. A giltwood side table at Chatsworth in the manner of William Kent is signed and dated 'R. Cribb Fecit 1834' and Sir Joshua Reynolds used a frame maker by the name of Cribb who is likely to be this maker (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, ed., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp.208-209).