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Artist/Maker	Unknown (maker)
Place of origin	England (made)

Mirror, mahogany with ebony inlay and brass mounts. The mirror is enclosed within mahogany bandings and has "broken" corners inlaid with trefoil ornament. It swings within turned and tapered uprights being attatched to square bases and adjusted by means of swivil screws of stumped bars. The uprights are decorated with turned ebony discs, and united top and bottom by turned bars: at the top are turned vase-shaped finials. The uprights are supported on two pairs of curved legs with brass lion paw feet and stringing lines of ebony.

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Category	Mirrors
Object type	Mirror
Materials and techniques	Ebony Mahogany Brass Mirror Glass Inlay (Process) Turning
Brief description	Mirror, mahogany with ebony inlay and brass mounts, English ca. 1820-1830
Physical description	Mirror, mahogany with ebony inlay and brass mounts. The mirror is enclosed within mahogany bandings and has "broken" corners inlaid with trefoil ornament. It swings within turned and tapered uprights being attatched to square bases and adjusted by means of swivil screws of stumped bars. The uprights are decorated with turned ebony discs, and united top and bottom by turned bars: at the top are turned vase-shaped finials. The uprights are supported on two pairs of curved legs with brass lion paw feet and stringing lines of ebony.
Dimensions	Framed mirror height: 40.375in Framed mirror width: 25in Stand height: 63in Stand width: 29.25in Stand diameter: 22in Dimensions taken from Furniture and Woodwork Department register.
Other number	1934/1832 - RF number
Collection	Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number	W.22-1934

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Record created	June 27, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125485/mirror-unknown/

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