Looking glass
about 1800
Object PlaceUnited States
Medium/TechniqueGilded frame
DimensionsOverall: 172.7 x 71.8 x 6.4 cm (68 x 28 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch Potter in memory of Mary Robeson Sargent
Accession numberRES.51.179
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Not on viewClassificationsFurniture
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ProvenanceBy tradition, owned originally by Zaccariah Allen of Providence, Rhode Island, "who had handsome things"; by descent in his family to his great-granddaughter, the donor; Gift of Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch Potter (Accession Date December 13, 1951)
mid-19th century?
About 1765–90
about 1730-1760
about 1800-1815
ca. 1825
about 1860-1870