Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 363
40 to 1750. Alooking-glass with aframe of olive-woodinlaid, made about1700, is in the Whip-ple house at Ipswich. The fashion for ja-panning, which roseat the close of theseventeenth century,was carried out inlooking-glass frames.A London paper of1689 advertised Several sorts ofScrewtores,… … Illus. 278.— Looking-glass. 1690. 23^ Furniture of the Olden Time square at the bottom and shaped in curious curvesat the top. A large star is cut in the centre of theglass, which must have interfered seriously with thereflections of the belles and beaux who wished to seetheir patches and their…
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