On View
Not on viewLooking glass (mirror), upper section
DateEarly 1700s
Terms
- Looking Glasses
- Glass
- Pine
- Walnut
- Paint
- London
- Northern Europe
Dimensions48.22 × 55.84 cm (19 × 22 in.)
MarkingsInscribed on back: "T Brattle/ LONDON/ ENGLAND/ 15.44." In the hand of C.E. Davis: "Cambridge/ 1825."
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberF1902
DescriptionWalnut, pine, paint, glass. Upper section of pier looking glass or sconce. Queen Anne style. Beveled glass. Small and large ovolo molding. Probably the top glass and frame of a pier looking glass. An elaborate cresting was at one time attached to the upper side. The intaglio pattern in the glass is achieved by cutting and grinding, with an after-polishing - a method mentioned in the accounts of looking glass makers and glass grinders of the 17th and 18th centuries. In most cases the upper glass overlapped the lower one, but in this looking glass they were seperated by a horizontal rail. Looking glasses with "diamond cut" upper plates remained popular to 1750.
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- Furniture
