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Maker: Unknown
One of four gilt wood mirrors painted with red and black lacquer and inlaid with mother-of-pearl (M.7A-D-1949).
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by Mrs. Jessie Lloyd
Diameter: 12 cm
Height: 96 cm
Width: 55.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed by Lloyd, Jessie, Mrs
18th century
Circa
1701
-
Circa
1800
Inlay
composed of
mother-of-pearl
Decoration
Accession number: M.7B-1949
Primary reference Number: 77341
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Mirror" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77341 Accessed: 2022-11-28 06:04:19
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77341
|title=Mirror
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-11-28 06:04:19|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-77341
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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Accession Number: E.W.2
Accession Number: E.GA.2903.1943
Accession Number: E.1.1921
Accession Number: M.7A-1949
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