Chinese Courting Mirror
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
notes: label: Description
content: This mirror belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the late 18th and early 19th century. Museum documentation notes that the mirror is likely of Chinese origin, like many similar “courting mirrors” of the time. These courting mirrors were given by suitors to young women as gifts, and were prized due to their Eastern origin and refinement. Many were kept in wooden protective cases like this one to protect it during its travels.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006860
label: catalog number
content: 6860
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mirror
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: basswood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: linden (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: mirrored glass (mirror material)
label: Physical Description
content: pine, Scots (frame support; backboard material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 12 5/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 32.0675 cm x 18.7325 cm