Mirror with Carved Hearts1750–178020 × 9 3/8 × 1 1/8"Carved and painted pine, mirror glassMuseum purchase with funds provided by the Amicus Foundation, Inc.1981.12.1801532081569Artist unidentifiedFurniture/FurnishingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain. http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19612United StatesPennsylvaniaThree Dimensional WorksBeatrice Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection, "Furniture" no. 1 (similar example illustrated).
Sandra Brant, Elissa Cullman, Small Folk A Celebration of Childhood in America, #171, p. 101 (similar example illustrated).
Frederick Fairchild Sherman, Early Connecticut Artists and Craftsmen (illustrated).
EXPRESSIONS OF A NEW SPIRIT. #42, p.48
EXPRESSIONS OF A NEW SPIRIT. #42, p.66
FOLK HEARTS. Cynthia V. Schaffner and Susan Klein. p.54, #61
THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, Feb 1924. Editor's Attic, frontispiece
THE CLARION, WINTER 1981/82.* Checklist: MAFA Purchase from the Lipman Collection," p.49
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgAlthough the majority of mirrors found in 18th c. America were imported from Europe, there was local manufacture. The shaped crest with three hearts found on this example is similar to a mirror in the Philadelphia Museum of art. Titus Gessey Collection. That Museum's piece came from a Lyme Kill Pike, Bucks County family and is one of several examples that have been found. Reproductions of this type of mirror were made in the 1920's and there are several clues to determine the authenticity of any single example: the mirror should be constructed from a single piece of wood, including the dentil molding on the front. The compass design incised near the bottom of the front should have rounded edges, not sharp and the mirror glass should be applied to the front of the support and held in place by applied molding. Although the mirror was donated with a strong Conn. history, its similar appearance and construction to the documented Pennsylvania example suggests that it might be more properly identified as Penn originSCULPTUREhttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19612http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19612http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster1961217501780 1981 12 18
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgAlthough the majority of mirrors found in 18th c. America were imported from Europe, there was local manufacture. The shaped crest with three hearts found on this example is similar to a mirror in the Philadelphia Museum of art. Titus Gessey Collection. That Museum's piece came from a Lyme Kill Pike, Bucks County family and is one of several examples that have been found. Reproductions of this type of mirror were made in the 1920's and there are several clues to determine the authenticity of any single example: the mirror should be constructed from a single piece of wood, including the dentil molding on the front. The compass design incised near the bottom of the front should have rounded edges, not sharp and the mirror glass should be applied to the front of the support and held in place by applied molding. Although the mirror was donated with a strong Conn. history, its similar appearance and construction to the documented Pennsylvania example suggests that it might be more properly identified as Penn originSCULPTURE