Looking Glass

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Looking Glass
Datec. 1740–1770
Made inEngland
MediumWalnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
Dimensions46 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (117.5 × 62.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.58.140
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Drawing Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Provenance[Vincent D. Andrus, Greenwich, Connecticut]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, October 27, 1958; given to MFAH, 1966.

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Looking Glass
c. 1740–1760
Walnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.61.107
scan from file photograph
c. 1745–1770
Mahogany; mahogany veneer, coniferous wood pine, spruce or fir, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.59.34
scan from file photograph
c. 1760–1775
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.81
Looking Glass
c. 1740–1770
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.28
Looking Glass
c. 1740–1770
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.29
Looking Glass
c. 1745–1770
Mahogany veneer, spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.58.103
scan from file photograph
c. 1760–1775
Mahogany; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.79
Looking Glass
c. 1740–1780
Mahogany veneer; composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.150
Looking Glass
c. 1785–1815
Mahogany and mahogany veneer; white pine, composition, gold leaf, iron, and mirrored glass
B.2008.14
Looking Glass (one of a pair)
c. 1790–1810
Walnut veneer; gilt, composition, iron, paint, tinned iron, mercury/tin amalgam mirrored glass
B.76.165.2
Looking Glass (one of a pair)
c. 1790–1810
Walnut veneer; gilt, composition, iron, paint, tinned iron, mercury/tin amalgam mirrored glass
B.76.165.1
Looking Glass
c. 1750–1800
Walnut; composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.228