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Rectangular two-part looking glass with gilt and gesso frame and upper eglomise panel; fluted vertical columns enclose the mirrored glass, rising from a block base and terminating in a flat molded pediment; the decorative eglomise scene has a landscape flanked by ovoid floral medallions.
looking glasses
mirrors
verre églomisé
gesso
gilding
mirrors
wood (plant material)
glass (material)
architecture (object genre)
architectural elements
Federal
Sheraton
Gesso
Glass
Architecture
Eglomise
Gilded
Federal
Sheraton
MIRROR
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
32 x 18 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.759
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