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Painted wall mirror of rectangular shape with demilune-shaped crest (clock-face shape); the ground of red-painted pine on top of which is mounted a black single-arch molded frame with flat arched crest enclosing an oval floral medallion on reverse-painted glass, mirrored glass below (old glass).
looking glasses
mirrors
pine (wood)
reverse painting on glass (image-making)
glass (material)
demi-lune (shape)
pine (wood)
Painted
Pine
Demilune
Medallion
MIRROR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
USA
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1294
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