Looking Glass

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Looking Glass
Datec. 1760–1775
Made inEngland
MediumMahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
Dimensions75 × 29 5/8 in. (190.5 × 75.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.81
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Philadelphia Hall (Downstairs)
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Provenance[Ginsburg & Levy, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, September 15, 1948; given to MFAH, 1969.
Exhibition History

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c. 1745–1770
Mahogany; mahogany veneer, coniferous wood pine, spruce or fir, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.59.34
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
Looking Glass
c. 1740–1770
Walnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.58.140
Looking Glass
c. 1740–1760
Walnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.61.107
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c. 1760–1775
Mahogany; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.79
Looking Glass
c. 1785–1815
Mahogany and mahogany veneer; white pine, composition, gold leaf, iron, and mirrored glass
B.2008.14
Looking Glass
c. 1740–1780
Mahogany veneer; composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.150
Looking Glass
c. 1750–1760
Mahogany; composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.61.109
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Thomas Fentham
c. 1800
Eastern white pine, scots pine, spruce, composition, paint, gold leaf, mercury/tin amalgam mirrored glass
B.69.180
Looking Glass
c. 1750–1820
Mahogany veneer, unidentified secondary woods, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.2012.205