The window-pier mirror incorporates an additional head-glass and the pediment of its moulded frame is serpentined with involuted 'Corinthian' scrolls that reflects the Louis Quatorze 'Roman' fashion popularised around 1700 by the engraved works of William III's 'architect' Daniel Marot (d.1752). The cartouche of its triumphal-arched cresting is similarly voluted and fretted with foliage at the sides and centre. Japanned in trompe l'oeil lacquer, the frame's whimsical golden figures and pavilioned landscapes reflect the influence of the celebrated Treatise on Japanning and Varnishing issued in Oxford in 1688 by Stalker and Parker.
Amongst the early 18th century manufacturers of such 'Fine Peer & Chimney glasses' was the Huguenot cabinet-maker John Belchier (d.1753), who supplied a gilded mirror, with similarly shaped head-glass, for Erdigg, Wales in 1726.
A pair of similarly japanned pier-glasses formed part of the collection assembled by Percival Griffiths.(R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 284, fig. 227).