Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to Mirror, late 19th–early 20th century.

Ornately decorated elevation of interior wall with fireplace at center and flanking doorways and chairs. Decoration includes putti and follows the theme of hunting, showing spears, birds, large game animals, and dogs within scalloped lunettes above doorways

Print, Design for Interior Wall Decoration with Fireplace, 1753
etching and engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-221-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Incomplete design of scrolling acanthus leaves

Drawing, Acanthus Ornament, early 19th century
graphite, pen and ink on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
1901-39-1354

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Design for Interior Decoration of Chimneypiece

Print, Design for Interior Decoration of Chimneypiece
etching and engraving on white laid paper tipped into cream laid paper.
1921-6-221-4

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center and is lined in white silk plain weave. The design is arranged so that golden rococo curves meet at the center seam to form a symmetrical v-shaped pattern, with flowering branches and birds, worked in satin stitch in colored silks. While the flowers are symmetrical, the birds are vertically off-set; each panel shows eleven birds, all different, which appear to be taken from a set of ornithological prints by Xaviero Manetti. Metallic effects in several textures are created with couched crimped gold lamella and couched foil-wrapped silk-core threads.

Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70
silk, metal-wrapped silk-core yarns.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-166-46-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 14 images of this object.

Egg-shaped form of curving rococo gold cage work over gray agate. Hinged lid with white enameled band showing the phrase, "Eloignez de vous rien n'est agreable" (Separated from you nothing is pleasant).

Bonbonnière (England), ca. 1755
raised and chased gold, carved gray agate, enameling on gold.
Gift of the Panwy Foundation, from the collection of Maria Wyman.
1994-129-3

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.