Margaret Gilmour (attributed). A silver plated Glasgow style mirror of kidney shaped form

Margaret Gilmour attributed, A silver plated Glasgow style mirror of kidney shaped form retaining the original bevelled plate glass mirror, with hand formed floral detail to the top and stylized peacocks to each side their feathers curving around the bottom of the mirror to meet simple leaf decoration in the centre. Margaret Gilmour was born in Glasgow. She attended at the Glasgow School of Art from 1877 to 1880 with her sister Mary and another third sister and together they established The Gilmour Studio at 179 West George Street. They had a long successful career and the studio produced beautiful metalwork for 50 years. The body of their work was decorative metalwork for the home, for commissions, as gifts and for the trade. They taught a range of crafts including repousse metalwork, enamelling, painting, ceramic painting embroidery, leather work, and even wood carving. The Gilmours output was prolific, working mainly in brass, silver plated brass and occasionally in copper.