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Hand Mirror with Dragon Hand Mirror
This is a Hand Mirror. It was manufactured by Lianchang, Chinese, active in Shanghai c. 1900-1940. It is dated ca. 1900 and we acquired it in 1997. Its medium is silver, glass, steel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Cultures converge in objects made in one country for use in another, like these grooming tools made in China for the western market. This dressing set includes a mirror, a pair of hair brushes, clothes brushes, and a combination shoehorn-buttonhook decorated with Chinese dragons. (Design for Life, 1997-98)
This object was
donated by
Fong Chow.
It is credited Gift of Fong Chow.
- Fragment (China)
- silk, metallic threads.
- 1962-79-1
- Drawing, Design for a Chinese Pavilion
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-40-81
- Drawing, Wall Decoration, Dragons, possibly for Music Room, Royal Pavilion,...
- graphite on white wove paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1948-40-24
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Nurse's Jacket And Pants (China)
- cotton, silk.
- 1956-55-1-a,b
- Print (China)
- Gift of William Dangaix Allen.
- 1939-73-34
- Print, Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea
- engraving on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1946-13-1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 26.5 × 15.7 × 2.7 cm (10 7/16 × 6 3/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Hand Mirror with Dragon Hand Mirror; Manufactured by Lianchang, Chinese, active in Shanghai c. 1900-1940; silver, glass, steel; H x W x D: 26.5 × 15.7 × 2.7 cm (10 7/16 × 6 3/16 × 1 1/16 in.); Gift of Fong Chow; 1996-109-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Thom Browne Selects.
