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Girandole Mirror
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Pine gilt gesso mirror glass, American
The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Helena Van Cortlandt Burrill in loving memory of her grandmother Sara Elliot Marshall Mordaunt and her mother Elizabeth Morris Mordaunt Burrill 2003
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