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Lot Essay
With delicately carved twisted and beaded frame surmounted by an elaborate crest centered and flanked by a carved eagle and urns, this pillar looking glass typifies a type made in New York State during the first years of the nineteenth century.
A remarkably similar example, replete with comparable carvings and a gold, black and white central eglomise panel is in the Collection of the Department of State (illustrated in Conger and Rollins, Treasures of State, New York, 1991, entry 147). Other related examples are in the Kaufman Collection (illustrated in Flanigan, American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, New York, 1986, p.232, entry 96), the Museum of the City of New York (illustrated in Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses New Haven, 1992, p.325, fig.74), and illustrated in Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 1979, p.1533, P4582.
The De Reimer family lived in "The Glebe House" from 1796 to 1815. Built in 1767, the house still stands in Poughkeepsie, New York and is currently under the jurisdiction of the Dutchess County Historical Society (at 635 main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York).
A remarkably similar example, replete with comparable carvings and a gold, black and white central eglomise panel is in the Collection of the Department of State (illustrated in Conger and Rollins, Treasures of State, New York, 1991, entry 147). Other related examples are in the Kaufman Collection (illustrated in Flanigan, American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, New York, 1986, p.232, entry 96), the Museum of the City of New York (illustrated in Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses New Haven, 1992, p.325, fig.74), and illustrated in Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 1979, p.1533, P4582.
The De Reimer family lived in "The Glebe House" from 1796 to 1815. Built in 1767, the house still stands in Poughkeepsie, New York and is currently under the jurisdiction of the Dutchess County Historical Society (at 635 main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York).