Lot Essay
With its gilt pendant floral sides, shaped pendant base and geometric inlay and surround, this mirror employs decorative motifs of both rococo and classical design. Although a comparable example was tentatively regionally attributed to Massachusetts (see, Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, (New York, 1966), fig. 216), the majority of other comparable American looking-glasses appear to have been manufactured in New York (see, Conger and Rollins, Treasure of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomtic Reception Rooms of the Department of State, (New York, 1991), fig. 93); as well as, American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, no. 7, p. 150, fig. 408 and no. 12, p. 281, fig. 690). (see also, The Girl Scout Catalogue, (New York, 1929), for an additional related looking-glass.)