Looking Glass

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Looking Glass
Datec. 1740–1780
Made inEngland
MediumMahogany veneer; composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
Dimensions30 × 14 in. (76.2 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.150
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; given to MFAH, 1969.
Exhibition HistoryTheta Charity Antiques Show 1989, Houston TX., September 13–17, 1989 (LN:89.33)

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c. 1785–1815
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scan from file photograph
c. 1745–1770
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scan from file photograph
c. 1760–1775
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
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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
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c. 1740–1770
Walnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
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c. 1740–1760
Walnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.61.107
scan from file photograph
c. 1760–1775
Mahogany; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
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c. 1750–1760
Mahogany; composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
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Looking Glass
c. 1750–1820
Mahogany veneer, unidentified secondary woods, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.2012.205
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c. 1790–1810
Walnut veneer; gilt, composition, iron, paint, tinned iron, mercury/tin amalgam mirrored glass
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