Chinese Wood Ornate Mirror

The mirror is the quiet part. Everything around it is in full voice.

This ornate mirror comes from China, in carved wood and mirrored glass. Chinese workshops have a long record of carving European-style furniture and frames for Western buyers, and this design owes plainly to that exchange, with its roots in the rococo. Open scrolls and acanthus leaves curl around all four sides in a pale gold tone. They rise to a leafy crest at the top and gather into a smaller cartouche at the foot. The glass has soft rounded corners. Sixty-three and a half inches high.

You may have trouble looking at yourself. There is too much else to see.