Mirror with candle brackets
date: label: Date
content: 1720–35
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular mirror (a) with original rectangular bevelled glass. Inner gilt molding carved with regularized floriation in low relief; shaped at upper corners. Wider conforming cyma and bead walnut molding outside. Cresting, with gilded ears of voluted leaf carving, is itself scrolled, voluted, and pierced at center to admit a round pierced gilded ornament. Shaped base has ears similar to above and bears a pair of engraved brass sockets which receive two scrolled candle brackets (b,c) with circular candle sockets and cups.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Irwin Untermyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-112-2-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Mirror with candle brackets
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Walnut veneer on deal, carved gessoed,and cast brass, mirrored plate glass
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 118 x 67.5 x 6 cm (46 7/16 x 26 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.)