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Object NameTwo Mirrors Engraved with Figures from the Commedia dell’Arte

Made FromMercury-Tin Amalgam Mirror, Wood, Gilding

Dateabout 1740

TechniqueEngraved, carved, gilded, assembled

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number2018.3.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Italy, Venice

Physical DescriptionTwo Mirrors Engraved with Figures from the Commedia dell’Arte. Mercury-tin amalga mirror glass, engraved, framed in carved and gilded wood, assembled. A pair of Venetian Rococo engraved mirrors in carved giltwood frames, each with its original mirrored glass. Each central glass is engraved with a floral border surmounted by a ribbon-tied lambrequin canopy, one plate centered below by a female figure, almost certainly Columbina, holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand and standing on a foliate and beaded dais. The other mirror is centered by the figure of a man, almost certainly Pierrot, holding flowers in his left hand and standing on a dais. Each mirror is set within an elaborately carved Rococo frame, with inner shaped mirrored slips, surmounted by a scalloped cartouche and flanked below by a pair of semi-nude female figures. The frames are ornamented overall with floral and foliate carving. At the base of each is a distinctive mask head boss, possibly once intended to receive the metal arm of a candle holder.
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