Mirror Maker: Unknown

1920–50

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Yellow-poplar (eagle finial, crest moldings; shaped side pieces at lower corners), mahogany veneer; mahogany (frame side members, shaped side pieces at upper corners), eastern white pine (crest, bottom, and back boards)

Dimensions

56 3/4 × 27 3/4 in. (144.1 × 70.5 cm)

Credit Line

Yale University Art Gallery

Accession Number

1987.2.4

Geography

Made in Northeastern, United States

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Yale University, New Haven, Conn; transferred to [see note 1] to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1987

Note 1: This mirror was found in 1982 in the Peletiah Perit House, which was built in 1861 at 55 Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven and was acquired by Yale University in 1931.
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 346–47, no. 198, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1985–1987," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1988), 126
Object copyright
Not Assigned
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Object/Work type

mirrors

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