Looking glass

DateCa. 1775

MediumMahogany, gilt, and glass

DimensionsOH: 5" 10 1/2"; OW: 28 1/2"

Credit LineBequest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage

Object number1991-64

DescriptionLooking glass with a carved and gilded broken scroll pediment centering a gilded phoenix bird perched on a branch above a plain scrollboard, a rectangular mirror-plate with shaped top within a gilded bezel, gilded fruit and leaf fillets flanking sides of frame, rounded and scrolled base.
ProvenanceHistory of having originally been owned by William Van Rensselaer, Albany, New York; descended in the Hatch-Davis Families; Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York.