Unknown Dutch
Armorial and Allegorical Mirror Frame

CultureDutch
Titles
  • Armorial and Allegorical Mirror Frame
Date17th century
MediumWalnut
DimensionsOverall: 22 1/2 × 19 in. (57.2 × 48.3 cm)
At opening: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (33.7 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2014.4
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
217 Blaffer Galleries
On view

Explore Further

Object Type
Provenance[Tomasso Brothers, London]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2014.

Exhibition History"Two-Eyed Seeing: Contemporary Pasts and Futures at the Blaffer Art Museum," Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, December 9–December 17, 2023. (OL.1658)

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Carved Pipe Case with Savage Warriors
Unknown Dutch Colonial
c. 1670
Ebony
BF.2014.5
Grand Tour Cabinet
Unknown Dutch
Late 18th century
Red sulphur intaglio casts, housed in oak cabinet veneered with keranji wood, with metal key
BF.2022.10.A-.O
Cabinet with Altar for Private Devotions
Anton Mozart
1601
PeaCabinet: pear wood, ebonized walnut, oak, and conifer with steel-etched, part fire-gilt brass mounts and fittings Paintings: oil on copper
BF.2008.1
Writing Casket with Writing Implements
Unknown German
c. 1625
Softwood (unidentified), walnut, ebony, mother-of-pearl with pigment, gilt brass, and horn
BF.2014.6
Mvseo Cospiano annesso a qvello de famoso Vlisse Aldovrandi
Lorenzo Legati
1677
Book with woodcuts
BF.2022.1
Myological Plate
Crisóstomo Martinez
1689
Engraving with etching and letterpress on laid paper
BF.2017.5
Museum Museorum (Museum of Museums), vols. II-III
Michael Bernhard Valentini
1714, first edition (first complete edition)
Book, bound in vellum over boards
BF.2016.3
Rosary Prayer Bead with Face and Skull
Unknown Franco-Flemish
16th century
Ivory
BF.2009.2
Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase
Balthasar van der Ast
1624
Oil on copper
BF.2007.4