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Rectangular overmantel mirror, XF383, English, unknown maker, c.1812, in a gilt frame. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Rectangular overmantel mirror in a gilt frame, English, unknown maker, c.1812
Silvered glass with deal and gilt wood
Height: 117.5cm, approximately
Width: 92cm
Depth: 4.5cm
Width (frame): 5 cm
Width: 92cm
Depth: 4.5cm
Width (frame): 5 cm
Museum number: XF383
On display: Breakfast Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The frame, with its reeded torus moulding, is canted forward on a deal framework.
The 1825 views of the Breakfast Room show a mirror in a green bronzed frame above the fireplace, seemingly fixed flat to the wall (Vol. 82, 27 and J. Britton and A. Pugin, The Public Buildings of London, plate 1 ). The mirror is today in a gilt frame and canted forward on a deal framework and bordered by slips of mirror set into the walls either side.
This alteration was carried out in March 1828 when Watson supplied ‘2 silvered Plates’ measuring ‘50 x 11’ and 1 silvered plate ‘36 x 4’ inches to be fitted ‘over Fire place in Breakfast room’. This arrangement adds to the complexity of the reflections in this room.
The 1825 views of the Breakfast Room show a mirror in a green bronzed frame above the fireplace, seemingly fixed flat to the wall (Vol. 82, 27 and J. Britton and A. Pugin, The Public Buildings of London, plate 1 ). The mirror is today in a gilt frame and canted forward on a deal framework and bordered by slips of mirror set into the walls either side.
This alteration was carried out in March 1828 when Watson supplied ‘2 silvered Plates’ measuring ‘50 x 11’ and 1 silvered plate ‘36 x 4’ inches to be fitted ‘over Fire place in Breakfast room’. This arrangement adds to the complexity of the reflections in this room.
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