Mahogany Veneer and Gilt-decorated Looking Glass
Mahogany Veneer and Gilt-decorated Looking Glass, America or England, c. 1760-70, the crest centering an eagle above a frame with gilt-gesso molded edge and gilt-lined glass, ht. 52, wd. 26 1/2 in.
Provenance: Descended in the Reverend Devotion and Waldo families of Scotland, Connecticut; purchased from Liverant.
Note: The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London held an exhibition (and published a catalog) in 1991, titled The Devotion Family: the lives and possessions of three generations in eighteenth-century Connecticut.
The property of Brian and Pam Ehrlich
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Mahogany Veneer and Gilt-decorated Looking Glass, America or England, c. 1760-70, the crest centering an eagle above a frame with gilt-gesso molded edge and gilt-lined glass, ht. 52, wd. 26 1/2 in.
Provenance: Descended in the Reverend Devotion and Waldo families of Scotland, Connecticut; purchased from Liverant.
Note: The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London held an exhibition (and published a catalog) in 1991, titled The Devotion Family: the lives and possessions of three generations in eighteenth-century Connecticut.
The property of Brian and Pam Ehrlich