Late 18th Century Federal Overmantle Trumeau Mirror From the Estate of John Philpot Curran

Beautiful Overmantle Federal Mirror, willed to one of the last descendants of John Philpot
Curran, Ruth Curran . Exquisite Dental and Frieze and Pilaster Columns. The round spheres on the cornice are representational of the 13 states.
I do know that it was said that it had gone around the cape twice. As it has a framer’s mark/sticker from South Africa Framers

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”

John Curran (1750-1817), Irish lawyer and statesman. From a speech given in Dublin, Ireland on July 10, 1790.
John Philpot Curran (24 July 1750 – 14 October 1817) was an Irish orator, politician, wit, and lawyer renowned for employing his skills in defence of civil and political liberty. He first won popular acclaim in 1780, as the only lawyer in his circuit willing to represent a Catholic priest horsewhipped by an Anglo-Irish lord. In the 1790s he was celebrated as a champion of Catholic emancipation and reform in the Irish Parliament and as defence counsel in court for United Irishmen facing charges of sedition and treason. He was vocal in his opposition to Britain’s incorporation of Ireland in a United Kingdom.

Curran’s speeches before the judicial bench were widely admired. Lord Byron said of Curran, “I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have seen written”. Karl Marx described him as the greatest “people’s advocate” of the eighteenth century.