Indian Mirror with Marquetry Frame

A garden of pale leaves, cut one at a time from bone.

This mirror with a marquetry frame comes from Rajasthan, India, and is contemporary, made of camel bone and sheesham wood. Bone inlay is a long-established craft in Rajasthan, where workshops cover furniture and frames with small hand-cut pieces, in a manner that echoes older ivory work. Creamy leaves in slightly different tones spread across the wide flat frame, with fine vines winding between them. A beveled glass sits at the center. It measures 48 inches high and 36 wide.

The mirror is good. The surrounding argument is better.