Looking glass Maker: John H. Williams (American, active ca. 1820–66)

1820–35

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (corner blocks, turnings), Spanish-cedar (cornice, bead moldings, sight edge, divider between glass plates), mahogany veneer; eastern white pine (frame rails, backboard)

Dimensions

55 7/8 × 28 1/4 in. (141.9 × 71.8 cm)

Credit Line

Charles F. Montgomery Collection

Accession Number

1989.57.4

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Charles Franklin Montgomery (1910–1978), Wilmington, Del., and later New Haven, Conn., before December 1969; by descent to his wife Florence Mellows Montgomery (1914–1998), New Haven, Conn.; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1989
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), 333–35, no. 187, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1989," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990), 116
  • Wendell D. Garrett, "Living with Antiques: The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Montgomery," Antiques (January 1972), 189, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

looking glasses

Inscriptions

"56 1 / 4 28 1 / 2 / 5 alfe" is written in pencil on the back of the frame at the upper right corner. A printed paper label is glued to the back side of the upper frame member: "Looking-Glass Warehouse. / JOHN H. WILLIAMS, / NO. 315, PEARL-STREET / OPPOSITE PECK-SLIP, / Offers for Sale, a general assortment of / LOOKING-GLASSES, / [IN THE WIDEST] PATTERNS OF / GILT AND MAHOGANY FRAMES, WARRANTED OF THE BEST / QUALITY, AT THE LOWEST PRICES. / Prints, Drawings, and Needleowrk neatly framed. / Looking-Glass Plates re-Silvered and Framed at the Shortest [notice.] / WHOLESALE DEALERS SUPPLIED AS [USUAL]. / D. McD . . . Murray St. near Broadway."

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