Vanity from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

2011.12.20ab: A vanity with a detached mirror from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. 2011.12.20a: A vanity from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The vanity is primarily constructed from burl wood with a dark finish. The bottom section of the vanity features a flat, rectangular surface with beveled edges and two built-in front drawers. The vanity also has four thin legs, that are squared at the top and taper towards the feet. The front legs are reinforced with carved, L-shaped, decorative brackets that reinforce the joint between the leg and the front bottom of the vanity. Plain, triangle-shaped brackets are similarly attached on the back of the vanity. The vanity’s drawer fronts are burl wood with a black, oval shaped inlays at the center. The inlays are embellished with two, painted, five petal flowers, orange and pink, framed by leaves. Each drawer has two, round, wooden drawer pulls.

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