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Sheraton style. Rectangular frame with applied blocked corners with rosettes. Half turned baluster molding surrounds frame enclosing a vertical rectangular mirror. Above is a horizontal rectangular eglomise panel of a house surrounded by trees on a peninsula. Frame of gilt gesso. Found brass hook at the top of frame.
looking glasses
mirrors
verre églomisé
gesso
gilding
glass (material)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
houses
rosette (motif)
Sheraton
Glass
Gesso
Gilded
Turned
Eglomise
Sheraton
Rosette
Landscape
House
MIRROR, WALL
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
10.375 x 6 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.546
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