Mirror in an ebony frame, 'spiegel in ebben lijst', in the Forehouse, room A. There were several other mirrors in the house.
The ebony framed mirror was already mentioned in the 1623 inventory of Vermeer's father.
Faceted mirror in a frame made of oak, c 1640 decorated with ebony and strips of Water Buffalo horn.. Rijksmuseum, inventory number RBK 1978:188 Photo 11099 18x24.
Mirror, Rijksmuseum, inventory number NM 1010-98 F4676-3.
Note: Photo Copyright Rijksmuseum Foundation. The Rijksmuseum has graciously assisted in this project Digital Home of Johannes Vermeer. The author was given permission to make a selection in the vast photo archive and this material has been made available by the Rijksmuseum.
This object was part of the Vermeer-inventory as listed by the clerk working for Delft notary public J. van Veen. He made this list on February 29, 1676, in the Thins/Vermeer home located on Oude Langendijk on the corner of Molenpoort. The painter Johannes Vermeer had died there at the end of December 1675. His widow Catherina and their eleven children still lived there with her mother Maria Thins.
The transcription of the 1676 inventory, now in the Delft archives, is based upon its first full publication by A.J.J.M. van Peer, "Drie collecties..." in Oud Holland 1957, pp. 98-103. My additions and explanations are added within square brackets [__]. Dutch terms have been checked against the world's largest language dictionary, the Dictionary of the Dutch Language (Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal , or WNT), which was begun by De Vries en Te Winkel in 1882.
Illustration
taken from the recently published handbook on Dutch Doll Houses by
Jet Pijzel-Dommisse,Het Hollandse pronkpoppenhuis, Interieur en
huishouden in de 17de en 18de eeuw, Waanders, Zwolle;
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, ill.305.
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