Regency Mirror In Golden Wood - Violin Shape - Shells And Scrolls - Period: Eighteenth Century

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Regency Mirror In Golden Wood - Violin Shape - Shells And Scrolls - Period: Eighteenth Century

Name: Regency Mirror In Golden Wood - Violin Shape - Shells And Scrolls - Period: Eighteenth Century
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: 57JGHQT59Y
Price: 1800 EUR
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1.800 €

Period 18th century

Style Regency style

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Magnificent Régence mirror in gilded wood, in the shape of a violin, with shell and scroll decorations.
It has two small curved feet, its mercury glass, its gilding and its parquet are original.

Period: 18th century
Dimensions: Height: 120cm x Width: 69cm
Ice Dimensions: Height: 65cm x Width: 46cm

At the death of Louis XIV, the heir Louis XV was too young, it was Philippe Duc d'Orléans (1674-1723), nephew of Louis XIV known as "the Regent" who shared the power of the Regency with the high nobility and parliamentarians.

It is a period of transition of great artistic interest for a new, more intimate society with smaller, more varied residences, with more sober decoration.

Craftsmen and artists of the time, ornamentalists and cabinetmakers, created less for the monarch and his court. They create for the wealthy bourgeois, financiers, and new nobility. They address lighter decorative themes such as hunting, fishing, love.

This is the birth of a so-called transitional style, the Regency style.

It was during this period that large mirrors appeared for decorative purposes above fireplaces, as well as mirrors with beadings decorated with lambrequins featuring shells with five branches or plumes.

The moldings carved in gilded wood or wood of the mirrors are finer, less protruding with lighter decorative ornaments on the theme of hunting, fishing, love, figures of women or fauns, medallions, bouquets of flowers , rockeries inspired by the Italian baroque, shells, fruits etc…

The Regency style in its rich variety of ornamentation and more curved lines announces the arrival of the young King Louis XV.