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Hand Mirror
This is a Hand Mirror. It was retailed by Tiffany and Co.. It is dated ca. 1890. Its medium is cast brass, cut mirrored plate. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This mirror, with its trailing vine decoration, much like that seen in some of the Indian wood and metal work that Lockwood de Forest commissioned and collected in India, may well have been one of the objects that de Forest supplied to Tiffany & Company. Tiffany's sold objects, especially jewelry and metalwork that de Forest designed and collected while living in and on return trips to India.
This object was
donated by
Anonymous.
It is credited Gift of Unknown Donor.
- Cut-out Decorative Foil (India)
- pierced and cut-out sheet brass foil.
- Gift of Sullivan Goss - An American Art Gallery.
- 2014-42-3
- Book, Illustrations of Design: Based on Notes of Line as Used by the...
- cloth covered cardboard and printed on coated paper.
- Gift of Taves Family Collection.
- 2015-8-1
- Hand Mirror Hand Mirror
- silver, glass.
- Museum purchase from Walter R. Scholz Memorial Fund.
- 1998-21-1
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Panel And Fragments (India)
- cotton, beetle elytra, foil strips, metallic yarns, sequins.
- Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
- 1931-25-1-a/d
- 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
Overall: 35.5 x 19 x 1.2 cm (14 x 7 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped on back, above handle: TIFFANY & CO.
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest.
