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Some gilding is historic, while other sections have been painted gold more recently."}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"M.6-2021","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"M.6-2021"},{"priref":"306970","type":"priref","value":"306970"},{"date":[{"earliest":2021,"latest":2021,"value":"2021-07-05"}],"source":"The Fitzwilliam Museum","type":"Object entry form","value":"1551"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/306970","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/306970"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"legal":{"credit_line":"Given by Croianna Bradshaw"},"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-205551","uid":"adlib-agent-205551","uuid":"fc08f08c-d0b4-3fcb-9b0d-ab0ec1e6c44c"},"summary_title":"Bradshaw, Croianna"}],"date":[{"earliest":2021,"latest":2021,"value":"2021"}],"method":{"value":"given"}}],"creation":[{"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149652","uid":"adlib-agent-149652","uuid":"0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98"},"summary_title":"Unknown"}],"note":[{"value":"It is likely that this was originally a water-gilt Georgian overmantel mirror with a large central square mirror glass, which was altered (most likely by Rossetti) and replaced with a convex mirror and ebonised to suit late-nineteeth century aesthetic tastes."},{"value":"This mirror was formerly in the possession of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828\u201382) and can clearly be seen hung above the fire in Henry Treffry Dunn\u2019s 1882 watercolour of Rossetti\u2019s Green Dining Room (in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery). 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