This mirror formed part of a suite of bedroom furniture supplied to Peter Langford-Brooke for Mere Hall, Cheshire, by Gillows of Lancaster. It was recorded in Mrs. Julia Langford-Brooke's sitting-room, in her 1840 Inventory, the room being furnished en suite with the dressing-room. The suite of George IV ebonised furniture was fashionable on three counts; firstly through its column-enrichments and colouring associated with Pompeian and Etruscan antiquity, secondly through elements of its form and ormolu embellishments being associated with the bniste-work of the Louis XVI period, as exemplified by Guillaume Beneman, and finally through its colouring and rich turning being considered as 'Old English' by antiquarians and Wardour Street dealers, who prized old ebony-turned Indian furniture as being 'Elizabethan'.