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Collections > Furniture > Toilet Mirror

Toilet Mirror

An easel-supported toilet mirror with a Boulle marquetry frame of red-backed turtleshell, brass and pewter.
'Tarsia a incastro' was a marquetry technique developed around 1620 by Italian marqueters working in Italy. The technique is often referred to as 'Boulle' marquetry because of its association with the famous French cabinet-maker André-Charles Boulle (1642-1734).
Size: Height: 35 cm; Width: 28 cm.

Founders' bequest, X.220

Artist / Maker: Monbro

Place: France

Object Type: mirror

Period: Napoleon III

Actual Date: c. 1855

Century: 19th century

Materials: Brass, Pewter, Turtle-shell

Museum Accession Number: X.220