Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Mirror

Works of Art (28)

Box mirror with the head of Pan, late 4th century B.C.; Hellenistic, Greek, Bronze (25.78.44a-d)
Cheval glass (psyche), ca. 1810–14, François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (French), Amboyna on oak with gilt-bronze mounts (24.230)
Denise at Her Dressing Table, ca. 1908–9, Mary Cassatt (American), Oil on canvas (2005.129)
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, 1865Ð66, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.63)
Lacquer comb and mirror case, 1878, Signed and dated: Fath Allah Shirazi, 1295 A.H., Iran, Papier-mâché, painted, varnished, and gilded (1979.460.2ab)
Looking glass, ca. 1775, American, Pine (1990.18)
The Marriage Feast at Cana, ca. 1498–1500, Juan de Flandes (Netherlandish), Oil on panel (1982.60.20)
Mirror Back (?), 7th–10th century, Mexico, Veracruz, Slate (00.5.991)
Mirror Back with Falconing Party, 1350–1375, French; Possibly made in Paris, Elephant ivory (41.100.160)
Mirror back, Tang dynasty, 8th century, China, Silver (1985.214.22)
Mirror Frame, ca. 1568, Wenzel Jamnitzer (German, Nuremberg), Silver gilt, ebony, and mirror plate (17.190.620)
Mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman, ca. 460–450 B.C.; Classical, Greek, Argive, Bronze (1972.118.78)
Mirror with a support in the form of a nude girl, second half of 6th century B.C., Laconian; Said to be from southern Italy, Bronze (38.11.3)
Mirror with decoration of figures in a landscape, Koryô dynasty (918–1392), Korea, Bronze (25.219.4)
Mirror, 12th century, Iran, Cast bronze (42.136)
Mirror, 1769, John Mayhew (English) and William Ince (English), Pine, gilt, mirror glass (58.75.131)
Mirror, ca. 1710, Johann Valentin Gevers (German), silversmith; Johann Andreas Thelot (German), silversmith, Germany (Augsburg), Oak and pine veneered with tortoiseshell, silver, gilt silver, and green-stained ivory; mirror glass (1989.20)
Mirror, second quarter of 16th century; Ottoman, Turkey, Iron, ivory, and gold (1972.24)
Miscellaneous Studies, one leaf dated 1619, Chen Hongshou (Chinese), Album of twelve paintings, ink on paper (2005.112a-l)
Monstrance Clock or Mirror Clock, ca. 1570, Made in Nuremberg, Germany, Case of gilt bronze; dial of gilt brass; movement of steel (17.190.639)
Nine Polaroid Portraits of a Mirror, 1967, William Anastasi (American), Black-and-white instant prints and mirror (1994.316)
Plateau, ca. 1825, John W. Forbes (American), Silver, glass, walnut (1993.167)
Razor and mirror, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early co-reign of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, ca. 1479–1473 B.C., Egyptian; From the tomb of Hatnofer and Ramose, western Thebes, Bronze and wood (36.3.69,.13)
Restello mirror frame, early 16th century, Venice, Poplar (1975.1.2104)
Tabernacle frame, ca. 1510, Florence, Walnut and poplar (1975.1.1638)
Tabernacle mirror frame with sliding covers, mid-16th century, Italy; Florence, Walnut (1975.1.2090)
Tondo mirror frame, ca. 1480, Tuscany (Siena?), Stucco, blown convex mirror (1975.1.2158)
Washstand, 1904, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish), Designer, Oak, ceramic tile, colored and mirror glass, and lead (1994.120)

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