Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 379
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 2^6 Furniture of the Olden Time runs a fluted band wound with garlands similar tothe pillars in Illustration 2,89. Illustration 291 shows a looking-glass…
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