Cleveland Museum of Art
Overmantel Mirror
James Pascall (British, c. 1697–1746) · c. 1740
In contrast to mirrors today, plate glass mirrors produced in Britain during the 1700s such as this one were backed with mercury and thin sheets of tin which give them their dark appearance.
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