Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table
Vertical rectangle. Intended to be executed in wood with ornaments of gilded metal. Below is a console table with four legs and a backboard. The oblong mirror glass is framed outside by two columns, in a pseudo-Egyptian style as are the legs. Above is a mask with rinceaux and winged lions in front of the panel. At the left edge is a part of a pencil plan. Verso: vertically, a childish profile.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
1810-30
Pen and black ink, brush and violet, olive, yellow watercolor, graphite on off-white laid paper
1938-88-586
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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