A FEDERAL CARVED AND GILT LOOKING GLASS

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A FEDERAL CARVED AND GILT LOOKING GLASS
LABEL OF HOSEA DUGLISS, NEW YORK, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

The molded projecting pediment with carved leaves and acorn drops above an acanthus leaf-carved band over a frieze with tablets and carved eagle, above a rectangular double-paned mirror flanked by turned columns with carved capitals over a molded and carved base, label on reverse reads "Hosea Dugliss/LOOKING GLASS MAKER/No. 5 Chatham Row/NEAR ST. PAUL'S CHURCH--NEW YORK,/...an assortment of/LOOKING GLASSES/IN THE NEWEST FASHIONS" (loss to eagle, new glass)--46in. high, 27 3/4in. wide

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Hosea Dugliss was born in England and worked in New York from 1818-1849 (Betty Ring, "Checklist of Looking-Glass and Framemakers and Merchants Known by their Labels," Antiques, (May, 1981), pp. 1178-1195). A labelled Dugliss mirror is owned by the Henry Ford Museum, and is illustrated in Helen Combstock, "Collector's Notes," Antiques, vol. 81, no. 5, (May, 1965), p. 92. A nearly identical mirror labelled by John H. Williams of New York, circa 1820, is illustrated in John L. Sherer, "Labelled New York Furniture at the New York State Museum," Antiques, (May, 1981), pp. 1113-1129, fig. 16, and also in Sherer, New York Furniture at the New York State Museum, (Virginia, 1984), fig. 46.