{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7a68d2f5-db58-4565-ac9a-482f131451b5/manifest","label":"1975-0419","metadata":[{"label":"BFA Number","value":"1975-0419"},{"label":"Source","value":"Decorative Arts Photographic Collection"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Metadata and images digitized from the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection of the Winterthur Library. For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Unknown"},{"label":"Context","value":"Paul Cermenati was involved in multiple firms. Boston directories include listings for Cermenati & Monfrino (1806), Cermenati & Bernarda (1807), and Paul Cermenati (1809-1810).    "Study of Boston directories previous to 1806 reveals no mention of either Cermenati or Mon Frino. In 1806, however, both names appear in conjunction. The address is given as 2 State Street. In 1807, the directory indicates a change. The firm name was now Cermenati & Bernardo, but the address was the same. In 1809, [there is] a Paul Cermenati?Ǫat 64 Cornhill. This Paul may?Ǫhave been the...partner of Mon frino and of Bernardo; but he is doubtless other than the Newburyport manufacturer of the same surname. The presence in Boston, during the early part of the nineteenth century, of Italians who were carrying on the enterprises of some artistic significance is perhaps worthy of note." (Antiques 8, no. 3 (September 1925): 139)."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Looking glasses"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Mirrors"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Auction catalog: Robert W. Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusetts, Sale 280 (January 17-18, 1975).    Article: "The Editor?ÇÖs Attic: Speaking of Labels," Antiques 8, no. 3 (September 1925): 139.    Article: Betty Ring, "Check List of Looking-Glass and Frame Makers and Merchants Known by Their Labels," Antiques 119, no. 5 (May 1981): 1181.    Book: Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York: Viking Press, a Winterthur Book, 1966): 479."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"Based on chalk inscription, owned by M.P. Conant, Walnut Hill, Natick, MA, sometime prior to 1975. Sold at Robert W. Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusetts, 1/18/1975."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 64.5 in. (163.8 cm), Width 36.75 in. (93.4 cm), Depth 6.25 in. (15.9 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Federal-style looking glass surmounted by beveled crown molding with decorative balls along the underside and flanked by two, twisted ionic style columns, both with a turned base, beaded shaft, and carvings and volutes on the capital. Beaded molding supplemented with decorative molding runs along the top of an upper glass panel set within two decorated, serpentine carved block of wood, from which the columns originate. The upper glass panel is reverse painted with two female encircled figures in gold and black on a blue background flanking an American flag and other emblems that flank a funeral urn inscribed:  [Sacred / to the / Memory / of / G. Washington]. The base molding is beaded. One gilt ball is missing, and the gilt at the base is in poor condition."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/17/2018"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"Inscribed in chalk on back: [Property of _____ M.P. Conant, Walnut Hill, Natick, Mass].    Printed, paper label pasted on backboard: [P. Cermenati, & Co. / LOOKING GLASS AND PICTURE FRAME / MANUFACTURERS, / No. 63, CORNHILL, BOSTON ; / where they keep constantly for Sale, at the most reduced prices, wholesale and retail, / AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF / LOOKING GLASSES, / which cannot fail of pleasing the taste of Purchasers, / TOGETHER WITH / Landscapes and Historical Prints, with or without Frames ; Telescopes ; Opera / Glasses ; Barometers ; Thermometers and Saccharometers ; Glazier's Diamonds ; / Pulse and Linnen Proof Glasses ; Miniature and Profile Frames ; Maps and Charts / on Rolers ; Gold Leaf ; Burnished Gold Size ; Composition of Leaf and Beads ; / Burnishing Stone ; Tin Foils ; Alarm Clocks ; Brunswick Blacking ; Gold Paper ; / Looking Glass Plates, all sizes ; Reeves' Paint Boxes, from 50 cents to 16 dollars / per Box, or Paints by the single Cake ; Camel's Hair Pencils, by the gross, dozen, / or single ; Imperial, Royal, Wove, Elephant and Columbier Drawing Paper, &c, &c. / Thermometers Repaired. / Ladies Needle Work Handsomely Framed and Glazed, in the most Modern / Style, and at the shortest notice. / Old Frames New Gilt, old Looking Glass Plates new Silvered. / B. True Printer, No. 15 State-Street, Boston]."},{"label":"Materials","value":"White pine; Glass; Gilding; Paint"},{"label":"Style","value":["Federal"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Paul Cermenati & Co. operated during these years."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1809 - D:00 M:00 Y:1810"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Label indicates Boston."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"Labeled by P. Cermenati & Co."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Cermenati, Paul, carver, gilder, and looking glass maker, active about 1805-1810","Paul Cermenati & Co., carver, gilder, and looking glass maker, about 1809-1810"]},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Mirror"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Looking glass"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Household accessories"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Looking glass"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/18/2018"}],"description":"Looking glass","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7a68d2f5-db58-4565-ac9a-482f131451b5/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1975-0419-001_front","height":1200,"width":667,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/520b8ee9-fd56-4762-93f7-58378fa6ca46/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/520b8ee9-fd56-4762-93f7-58378fa6ca46","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1200,"width":667},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7a68d2f5-db58-4565-ac9a-482f131451b5/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/520b8ee9-fd56-4762-93f7-58378fa6ca46/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7a68d2f5-db58-4565-ac9a-482f131451b5/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1975-0419-002_label","height":942,"width":1200,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/25981c7e-ca1d-4f97-88ba-2208c851d940/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/25981c7e-ca1d-4f97-88ba-2208c851d940","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":942,"width":1200},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7a68d2f5-db58-4565-ac9a-482f131451b5/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/25981c7e-ca1d-4f97-88ba-2208c851d940/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/520b8ee9-fd56-4762-93f7-58378fa6ca46/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}