Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 381
289. —Mantel Glass, 1783. having one of the mortuary subjects which were sopopular with our ancestors, of a monument with awillow carefully trained to weep over the urn, and adespondent female disconsolately gazing upon theground. The glass may have been ordered by thegrief-stricken lady who is… … Illus. 290. —Looking-glass. 1790-1800. vanities are fleeting. The cornice and the capitalsof the pillars are very elaborate, and around the top 356 Furniture of the Olden Time runs a fluted band wound with garlands similar tothe pillars in Illustration 289. Illustration 291 shows a looking-glass in…
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