Looking Glasses

Artist Cermenati, Bernard and Cermenati, Paul 1803 - 1804

Date1803-1804

Terms

Looking Glasses
Glass
Gilt
Pine
Boston

Dimensions93.91 × 50.76 × 5.08 cm (37 × 20 × 2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)

Object numberF1109

DescriptionGilt pine and composition; enamelled glass. Gilt frame in architectural style. Cornice moldings are quarter round; a fillet, on which is a narrow bead molding; a large cove on which is a ball molding; and a fillet carved in the egg and dart pattern. Egg and dart molding is also next to the glass at the bottom. Cornice supported by two corbels with carved water leaf decoration. Either side of the lower glass is a fluted half column with a capital having Ionic volutes and water leaf carving. Two glasses, unbevelled. Upper one is painted in black and gold against a white ground. In a center semi circular panel is a landscape showing a castle, hills and trees. Panel surrounded by conventional sunburst design. Pair with F1110.

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