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Antique 19th c. Wall Mirror with Reverse Glass Painting
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This is from a central Massachusetts estate, right off the wall. Mahogany 2-part mirror or looking glass with original varnish finish. For similar examples see Nutting plates 3067, 3069, 3076, 3089, etc. Fluted pilasters or columns, moulded cornice with pendant split turnings. Upper framed portion containing reverse glass landscape is 7 1/4" x 11 1/2. Painting is of a fanciful country home by a stream and is in excellent condition with no paint losses. Lower framed portion with mirror is 17 1/2" x 11 1/2". Overall size is 29 1/2" x 17 1/4" x 2 3/4". The old varnish is alligatored. You can see from the photo of the cornice top how all the pieces of wood were fit together to make it, and how they have shrunken/distorted differently from age. The back is closed with old pine "shingles" held by rusty old nails. It looks like t might be some old newspapers stuffed behind them which could date it, but I'm not going to take it apart. The huge old screw eyes with braided wire are affixed in the middle, as was the style back then, so the mirror cants forward when hung (this is easy to change). It does look, from hardware holes, like t was once a top-mounted hanger. Nice piece. Somebody asked me about the mirror itself...is it new? No, though it reflects perfectly, it has a few pinhole-size black spots w the silver is missing, though no advanced silver disease. T are "streaks" within the mirror glass itself...it looks like an incomplete cleaning, but won't come off...I have seen this on other old mirrors, don't know what causes it. The reverse painting is on the old wavy glass.
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