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Mirror

Mirror

Dateca. 1760
Label TextMirrors were an essential part of interior decoration in the eighteenth century. They gave greater intensity to daylight that filtered through windows, and candlelight shimmered in their glass plates and elaborately gilded frames at night. Carved and molded rush fronds and floral sprays surround the oval glass of this mirror. At the top, the carved surmount is a stylized, intertwined cord and bow. Mirrors in this style were produced in the workshops of John Linnell and Thomas Chippendale.
Object number94.109
Credit LineGift in honor of Virginia Bloedel Wright by Sally Sample Aall
Dimensions58 x 33 in. (147.32 x 83.8 cm)
MediumGlass, gesso, wood, and gilt
French
1748 or 1771
Object number: 35.564
European
ca. 1825-50
Object number: 89.177
European
Object number: 89.178
Chalice
German
ca. 1500
Object number: 55.17
Avalokiteshvara (Kannon Bosatsu)
Japanese
10th-11th century
Object number: 68.130
Bowl
English, Worcester
ca. 1765
Object number: 76.168
Plate
English, Chelsea
ca. 1765-70
Object number: 69.169
Fragment of Gothic stole in panel form
English
1425
Object number: 39.255
Tumbler
Russian
ca. 1801-25
Object number: 97.44.51