Pair of Mirrored Double Doors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

Title: Pair of mirrored double doors

Designer: Lorenzo de Ferrari (1680–1744)

Date: ca. 1743–44

Culture: Italian, Genoa

Medium: Lindenwood, carved and gilded; mirrored glass panels, walnut, pine

Dimensions: Overall (each): 8 ft. 11 1/16 × 25 × 2 1/2 in. (272 × 63.5 × 6.4 cm)

Classification: Woodwork

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1991

Accession Number: 1991.307a, b

These are part of a set of four double doors made for the Golden Gallery in the Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi, now the Chamber of Commerce in Genoa. The doors were purchased and brought to New York in the late 1890s by the American architect Stanford White.

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