hand-crafted oval Venetian mirror with gold highlights, beaded glass edging and rosettes
Oval Venetian Mirror
Venetian mirrors VM594I
24" x 34"H
list price: $ 2187.50
your price: $ 1750.00
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Elegant oval Venetian mirror framed in hand-etched glass with scalloped trim. Hand etched design featuring scrolled leaf and
flowers motif. Scalloped mirror trim is crafted with gold highlights, beaded glass edging, and embellished with eighteen beautiful
rosettes hand-crafted from translucent glass with milky-white highlights. Four smaller rosettes with gold highlights grace the inner
border of this Venetian mirror. This Venetian mirror is hand-crafted in Italy and imported by Decorative Crafts, Inc |
Venetian mirrors >> history >>
Venetian mirrors manufacturing goes back to Renaissance, when Venice-Murano stood as the unrivaled center for mirror glass production.
The pieces blown in the Venetian shops astonished the world with their thinness, brilliant clarity, and colors. Royalty throughout Europe
stocked their palaces with Venetian mirrors. The making of Venetian mirrors is a storied tradition in the history of craft: it survived
through the centuries to this day
Venetian mirrors for centuries were objects of desire. Obtained by nobles, Venetian mirrors represented luxury and wealth. The long
journey of Venetian mirrors is surrounded by mystery, romance, and palace intrigues. Venetian mirrors are hand crafted masterpieces and
present incredible value. Venetian mirrors history started on the tiny Italian island of Murano in Venice where the art of hand blown,
hand-etched glass and goes back to the Renaissance. In the 16th century real Venetian mirrors were a rare objects and almost all of them
were custom made for royalty and nobles. Back then Venetian mirrors or at least "Venetian style mirrors", could also be purchased, but only
from well-stocked, high-end Haber-dasher who specialized in valuable objects. Indeed, beautiful Venetian mirrors could not be found just
anywhere. For centuries Venice produced the purest mirrors in the world, set in precious frames made of beveled glass borders and skillfully
adjusted with metal screws. The Venetian mirrors industry expanded and wiped out all competitive initiatives from abroad. What brought about
these results, in fact, was the quality and proportion of mirrors and there components, combined with the artisans experience accumulated over
hundreds of years
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