Pair of Looking Glasses

Furniture

Boscobel House and Gardens

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

A 76.1

Description

Pair of looking glasses with large, gilded, molded flat top cornices with rope inserts and pendant balls; upper panel with gilded frame and rope borders enclosing églomisé panels of white background centered with chamfered rectangles depicting buff colored cottage scene with bridge flanked by gilded bordered ovals with buff colored musical motifs; clustered side columns with rope borders.

Acquisition

Accession

A 76.1

Source or Donor

Israel Sack, Inc.

Credit Line

Purchase, 1976

Furniture Details

Furniture Type

Mirror - Hanging

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Date made

1800 - 1810

Place

City

Boston or New York

Country

America

Continent

North America

Dimensions

Height

62 in

Width

38-1/2 in

Material

Gilt gesso, Pine, Glass

Provenance

Notes

"Purchased from Israel Sack, Inc. Invoice states ""Purchased by Joseph Tilden in 1801 for his new house in Boston where he and his bride Suzannah Linzee were to live - descended in these families."" A Joseph Tilden (1779-1853) married Suzannah Linzee in Boston on May 18, 1802. See John William Linzee, Jr., ""The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. And Their Ancestors and Descendents"" (privately printed, 1918), p. 79. Purchased by Boscobel from Julius Lowy, New York, NY 4/12/77"