The tablet frame has flowered architectural corners that are buttressed by oak-festooned trusses in the George II Roman manner promoted by the architect William Kent (d. 1748). It relates to an Apollo-headed mirror that was supplied in the 1730s for Ragley Hall, Worcestershire; while its cresting of an Arcadian deity mask displayed in a feathered and scalloped cartouche relates to that of a mirror supplied in the 1730s to Frederick, Prince of Wales (see R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, pps. 363-364, figs. 40-41). Its pediment of acanthus trusses issuing from the corners support a scalloped cartouche which also features in a frame pattern by the architect John Vardy (d. 1765), Kent's assistant in the Royal Board of Works (unpublished, R.I.B.A. drawings collection).

A related mirror possibly made for Sir Richard Hoare, of Barn Elms by William Linnell and now at Stourhead, also features an Arcadian deity mask issuing feathers (H. Hayward & P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, p. 92, fig. 177).