Overmantel观景镜 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Overmantel观景镜
品名（英）	Overmantel Looking Glass
入馆年号	1968年，68.143.11
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	John Jelliff【1813 至 1893】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1868 - 公元 1870
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 新泽西州, 纽瓦克（Made in: United States, New Jersey, Newark）
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尺寸	92 1/2 x 68 x 7 英寸 (235 x 172.7 x 17.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这面大镜子最初是为杰迪迪亚·威尔考克斯建造的位于康涅狄格州梅里登布罗德街816号的豪宅的客厅或后客厅。该住宅于1870年竣工，被誉为该州最宏伟的住宅之一。房间的连接红木家具，包括软垫座椅家具（68.133.1-.5）和飞檐（68.134.8-.10），装饰有珍珠母奖章，侧面有一位女士的头像，并进行了雕刻和镀金装饰。该套房由新泽西州纽瓦克市的John Jelliff and Co.所有，基于纽瓦克艺术博物馆收藏的一把几乎一模一样的扶手椅及其附带的Jelliff公司的销售清单。尽管杰利夫公司在纽瓦克经营着一家展厅，但他们也通过各种地区批发商在全国各地零售家具。威尔科克斯（Wilcox），或者可能是该建筑的建筑师兼负责人奥古斯都·特鲁斯德尔（Augustus Truesdell），很可能是通过康涅狄格州或纽约的一家零售商购买家具的，该零售商的库存来源于多家橱柜制造商豪宅建成后不久，威尔科克斯经历了财务危机，这座房子及其家具在拍卖会上被卖给了另一位梅里登实业家查尔斯·帕克，他是该市的第一任市长，也拥有一家成功的黄铜铸造厂。帕克一家一直住在这座豪宅里，直到1934年，他们卖掉了这处房产，这里成为了一个被称为比奇伍德小屋的退休社区。该设施关闭，建筑最终于1968年被拆除。
介绍（英）	This large overmantel mirror originally furnished the sitting room, or rear parlor, of the mansion built for Jedediah Wilcox at 816 Broad Street in Meriden, Connecticut. Completed in 1870, the house was heralded as one of the state’s grandest residences. The room’s en suite rosewood furnishings, which included upholstered seating furniture (68.133.1-.5) and window cornices (68.134.8-.10), were embellished with mother-of-pearl medallions featuring a lady’s head in profile and incised and gilded decoration. The suite has been attributed to John Jelliff and Co. of Newark, New Jersey, based on a nearly identical armchair in the collection of the Newark Museum of Art and its accompanying bill of sale from the Jelliff firm. Although Jelliff and Co. operated a showroom in Newark, they also retailed their furniture across the country through a variety of regional wholesalers. Wilcox, or perhaps the building’s architect and superintendent Augustus Truesdell, likely purchased the furniture through a Connecticut- or New York-based retailer who sourced their inventory from various cabinetmakers. Shortly after the mansion was completed, Wilcox experienced financial ruin, and the house and its furnishings were sold at auction to another Meriden industrialist, Charles Parker, the city’s first mayor who also owned a successful brass foundry. The Parker family continued to reside in the mansion until 1934, at which time they sold the property and it became a retirement community known as Beechwood Lodge. The facility closed and the building was ultimately demolished in 1968.