Mirror
ca. 1770 (made)
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This mirror is currently on loan to National Trust Claydon House. Its broken outline and asymmettrical central motifs at top and bottom reflect ideas that had been popular during the mid-century, when the Rococo style was at its height, but the regularity of the form is closer to the Neo-classical style that began to succeed the Rococo by 1770. It seems likely that the mirror has lost elements at the base, and that the fronds would have crossed over at this point.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | carved and gilt wood |
| Brief description | Mirror, in the form of two ovals, a larger surmounted by a smaller, of gilt pine, the frame composed of large fronds of acanthus, the larger oval with an inner frame of beading. |
| Physical description | The frame is of carved and gilt wood in the form of two ovals, a large one below and a small one above. Both are carved with long-leafed acanthus, bound with ribbon and interspersed with flowers and fruit. Inside the larger oval a smaller inner frame decorated with nulling. |
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| Summary | This mirror is currently on loan to National Trust Claydon House. Its broken outline and asymmettrical central motifs at top and bottom reflect ideas that had been popular during the mid-century, when the Rococo style was at its height, but the regularity of the form is closer to the Neo-classical style that began to succeed the Rococo by 1770. It seems likely that the mirror has lost elements at the base, and that the fronds would have crossed over at this point. |
| Bibliographic reference | Tomlin, Maurice, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture (London: HMSO for Victoria and Albert Museum, 1972), cat. no. N/15, p. 117. |
| Other number | 50/3611 - RF number |
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| Accession number | W.1-1951 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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