Mirror

Object Name:

Mirror

Object ID:

1993.045.03

Date:

circa 1917

Description:

Mirror. Rectangular mirror (27.5 x 9.25 inches) in rectangular gilt frame with oval print of a woman (11.5 x 8.5 inches) in oval frame at top. Rectangular frame has foliage design on top surface and horizontal and vertical lines around top edge, two leaves in bottom corners. Oval frame has same design scheme with ornate scrolls and scrolls with flowers on either side where merges with rectangular frame. Large semi-circular foliage design at top. Woman in print in seated, wearing high-waisted, long gauzy dress, hair loosely tied back with long pony tail draped over right shoulder. Rectangular frame backed with cardboard, oval frame backed with thin wood, both held in place by wire and cut nails. Two modern metal picture hangers screwed into back on either side of oval frame.

Material:

Wood
Glass
Paper
Metal

Dimensions:

W-12 L-45 D-2 inches

Provenance:

Mirror belonged to the donor's grandmother, Alice Jane Philbrick Merrill (1883-1968), and was prized by Mrs. Merrill in her Cobleskill, N.Y. home (lived there approx. 1 year when her husband served as V.P. of Harder McKee Refrigerator Co.). Mrs. Merrill was a native of Franklin, N.H., and later lived in Nashua, N.H.
Donor also states that "my mother treasured her and her mother's furniture and we collected antiques for 32 years" (corresp., 7/28/1988).

Credit Line:

Gift of Jane L. Maynard Ward

People:

Merrill, Alice (1883-1968), Long, Theresa, Maynard, Florence (1883-1981)