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Looking Glass

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Looking Glass
Datec. 1700–1710
Made inEngland
MediumBurl walnut veneer and mirrored glass
Dimensions41 1/4 × 24 3/4 in. (104.8 × 62.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.62.2
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Murphy Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Provenance[Israel Sack, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1962; given to MFAH, by 1966.

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c. 1790–1810
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Looking Glass (one of a pair)
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c. 1790–1810
Walnut veneer; gilt, composition, iron, paint, tinned iron, mercury/tin amalgam mirrored glass
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c. 1740–1770
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c. 1740–1760
Walnut veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
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c. 1785–1815
Mahogany and mahogany veneer; white pine, composition, gold leaf, iron, and mirrored glass
B.2008.14
Looking Glass
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c. 1740–1780
Mahogany veneer; composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
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scan from file photograph
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c. 1760–1775
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
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Looking Glass
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c. 1740–1770
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
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Looking Glass
Unknown English
c. 1740–1770
Mahogany veneer; spruce, composition, gold leaf, mirrored glass
B.69.29
Looking Glass
Unknown English
c. 1745–1770
Mahogany veneer, spruce, composition, gold leaf, and mirrored glass
B.58.103
Desk
Unknown American
c. 1700–1730
Black walnut, undetermined burl veneer, and eastern white pine; eastern white pine, black walnut, yellow-poplar, cherry, Cuban oyster wood (Gymnanthes lucida), and chestnut
B.69.42
Étagère
John Henry Belter
1855
Rosewood and rosewood veneer; black walnut, mahogany, eastern white pine, yellow-poplar, undetermined exotic wood (possibly eucalyptus), marble, and mirrored glass
B.81.9.10