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Circular convex mirror in a wide reeded frame, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century
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Circular convex mirror, XF234, in a wide reeded frame, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century, mahogany with mirror glass. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Hugh Kelly.
Circular convex mirror in a wide reeded frame, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century
Mahogany with mirror glass
Diameter: 61.5cm
Width (frame): 5cm
Width (frame): 5cm
Museum number: XF234
On display: South Drawing 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
This is almost certainly the ‘circular mirror 24 inches diameter’ which was in Soane’s day fixed to the door between the Study and the Dressing Room.1 It is visible in a view of the Study by J. M. Gandy of 1822, (P86 detail), with what looks like a stained rather than a gilt frame.
1 It currently hangs in the South Drawing Room, where no convex mirrors are listed in the 1837 Furniture and Fittings inventory.
1 It currently hangs in the South Drawing Room, where no convex mirrors are listed in the 1837 Furniture and Fittings inventory.
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