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Two-part looking glass has eglomise panel at top depicting architectural ruins painted in gold with gray patterned border; below is mirrored glass; gilded frame is molded; stepped pediment and molded sides have a series of applied gesso spheres; simple molded base.
looking glasses
mirrors
verre églomisé
gesso
mirrors
wood (plant material)
glass (material)
ruins
Sheraton
Glass
Gesso
Sheraton
Eglomise
Ruin
MIRROR
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
31.875 x 18.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.690
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