Maker: Miller, Alec
Bronze hand mirror with scenes of nymphs bathing
Bronze, cast, and chased, inset with an oval mirror with a bevelled edge. The narrow wedge-shaped rustic handle is hollow on the reverse and encloses a nude figure of a woman standing holding her hands behind her head. The handle is separated from the mirror by a narrow studded collar. The mirror back is decorated in shallow relief with three nymphs bathing, one of whom grasps the right arm of a young man who is kneeling on the bank and bending down towards her. Behind him there is a broad squat jug, and a taller urn or ewer is partially visible next to his left arm. The scene is enclosed by a narrow rope edging.
History note: Olive Ward; on loan to the museum since 2012
Given from the estate of the late Olive and Peter Ward
Length: 30.2 cm
Width: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Ward, Olive and Peter, from the estate of
20th Century, first half#
After
1900
CE
-
Before
1935
CE
Alec Miller was a Scottish sculptor who went to work for the Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden and remained there working independently. He visited the United States several times in the 1920s and 1930s before emigrating in 1939.
Frame
composed of
bronze
Mirror
composed of
glass
Depth 1.1 cm
End Of Hande
Depth 2.4 cm
Glass
Handle
Accession number: M.7-2016
Primary reference Number: 208647
Former loan number: AAL.7-1012
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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