Description:
Looking glass or mirror in its original wooden box, which has a shaped projecting crest with multi-colored flowers painting on glass on both crest and borders; the original pressed metal decoration is missing. This mirror is an example of a large group of looking glasses made in Holland, northern Germany, and Denmark throughout the eighteenth century for export, which were later referred to as courting glasses. Many were brought to New England and other coastal towns, usually pegged into their protective shipping boxes. These were often colorful with their painted glass borders and gold "Dutch metal" foil in the small moldings, usually missing today. Similar to 56.340.2.

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