A Pair of Régence Style Gilt-Bronze, Ebonised and Etched Glass Mirrors

Description

A Pair of Régence Style Gilt-Bronze, Ebonised and Etched Glass Mirrors.

Each with cartouche pediment plate exuberantly mounted with pierced rocaille frame. The plate etched with flowers and scrollwork. Each central rectangular bevelled plate surround by a pierced trailing frame. The border plates etched with trailing flowers. The corners with pierced gilt-bronze clasps.

‘Le miroir à parcloses’, meaning a larger plate around which smaller plates are added, has its origins in early Venetian mirror making, when the complexity and cost of making mirrored glass meant that smaller plates where often combined together to make a larger mirror.

The style of this mirror is evocative of the Régence period, the first quarter of the 18th century when King Louis XV was considered a minor and France was instead governed by Philippe d’Orléans. The design relates to the elaborate style of the architect and engraver Daniel Marot (1661-1752).

France. Circa, 1860.