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1780-1820
GUSN-289726
Long rectangular mirror with rounded top in elaborate wod and gesso frame, gilded. Ornamented with flowers, leaf and bud at two lower corners, and with crowning spray of flowers and leaves on top.
wall mirrors
silvering
sheet glass
wood (plant material)
gesso
gilding
Mirror
Original To Nickels-Sortwell House (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
United States
55 x 25 1/4 x 2 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Frances Sortwell
1958.243
1780-1820 (Possibly)
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