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DateMid 1700s
Terms
- Looking Glasses
- Glass
- Pine
- Walnut
- England
- Northern Europe
Dimensions58.38 × 33 cm (23 × 13 in.)
MarkingsInscribed on back, "John Jacobs/ Carlyle/ wife was sister of/ Rev. Paul Litchfield."
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberF0715
DescriptionWalnut, pine, glass. One piece of glass set in frame with molded veneer with carved and gilt inner edge. Veneer mitred at bottom corners rounded upper corners with slight point. Sides of frame also veneered. Crest at top, pine with veneer, with edge cut in scrolls. In center of crest a circular shell design carved intaglio with two scrolls at bottom and leaf-like carving, gilt. Veneer varnished. Frame itself pine, mitred at bottom....Crest has large center brace and two smaller side ones.
