hand mirror

Object NameHand Mirror

Maker Linda MacNeil (American, b. 1954)

Made FromGlass, Metal, Gold

Date1980

Place MadeUnited States, MA, Amesbury

TechniqueCast, hot shaped, silvered, polished, cemented, assembled

SizeOverall H: 13.1 cm, L: 22.1 cm

Accession Number80.4.52

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Linda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass

On ViewBen W. Heineman Sr. Family Gallery of Contemporary Glass.

Physical DescriptionHand Mirror. Red, black, blue, fleshtone, and colorless glass; metal; cast, hot shaped, mirrorized, polished, cemented, fabricated. Hand mirror shape; metal frame supports black glass lozenge shape form which supports mirror; lower surface of lozenge is high glass with eleven drilled circles; upper surface of lozenge is matte; long, thin rectangular mirror mounted on lozenge is set in a 24K gold plated metal frame; the base of the frame stamped "MACNEIL" within a lozenge shape border; metal frame supports mirror component and red glass, conical shape "handle"; half circle metal shape welded beneath frame forms two legs, with the base of the black lozenge forming a third, for supporting the object (see photograph); attached to one side flesh tone and the other pale blue in tone; this circular frame rotates.
Provenance

Source Julie Artisan's Gallery, Inc. - 1980-07-02