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Sheraton style. Vertical rectangular mirror enclosed in frame featuring molded architrave with blocked corners and projecting cornice. Reeded half-round columns with corinthian capital in a wheat motif at sides. Molded skirt with blocked corners. Mirror surmounted by eglomise panel with a lamb in an oval reserve with a vine garland border.
looking glasses
mirrors
verre églomisé
gesso
gilding
glass (material)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
lambs
Sheraton
Glass
Gesso
Gilded
Column
Lamb
Sheraton
Eglomise
MIRROR, CHEVAL
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
40.125 x 19.625 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.550
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