Very Fine and Rare Federal Giltwood and Églomisé-Paneled Looking Glass, Stillman Lothrop, Salem, Massachusetts, 1804

the reverse bearing a printed label: STILLMAN LOTHROP, BURNISH-GILDER, In Framing, LOOKING-GLASSES, PICTURES, & EMBROIDERY-WORK; All of which branches he executes in an elegant style, In the Shop Chamber next west of Crombie’s Tavern, in Essex-Street, Salem. HE ALSO KEEPS CONSTANTLY FOR SALE Elegant LOOKING-GLASSES and PICTURES, Of all sizes -- at the lowest prices. Orders thankfully received, and punctually executed.

Joan Brownstein Antiques, Ithaca, New York.

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This is the only looking glass known with the label of Stillman Lothrop of Salem. Two other objects bearing his label include a silk embroidery in a gilded frame and a white painted dressing table with an attached dressing box, which was probably purchased from John Doggett of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Lothrop served as an apprentice to John Doggett in 1803 and opened his own shop in Salem in 1804.