Looking Glass
CultureEnglish or Irish
Date1760-1770
MediumWood with gesso, paint, gilding, and mirrored glass
DimensionsOverall: 68 × 42 × 10 inches (172.72 × 106.68 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Kenneth A. Spencer
Object numberF67-25/4
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DescriptionShaped mirror plates flanked by elongated "C" scrolls and pierced and carved in high relief with fruit and flowers; each with a small mirror above surmounted by a Chinoiserie cresting, the top with a small bell-hung tiled roof pagoda above an overhanging lambrequin, also hung with bells, the bases with small mirror plates and with small lambrequinned pavillions in the c. Crack in small mirror plate on lower r. base of one mirror. Painted in oyster white, details pink and blue, garlands of fruit in bright colors, bells and pagoda roof gilded.
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