A French mirror

The mirror frame is decorated with a pearl border, garlands and festoons and topped by a wood carved flower vase.

Motifs from classical antiquity served as examples for this mirror. They were applied again in Europe from about 1760. Here in the so-called Goût Grec (Greek taste) version.

France, Louis Seize period, ca 1780. Dim. H172,Br 76 cm.