19th-Century Empire Mirror by Testolini & Salviati

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Important mirror made by verreries artistiques testolini venice, for empire hapsburg vienna. The precious mirror is carved by hand and … Read more Important mirror made by verreries artistiques testolini venice, for empire hapsburg vienna. The precious mirror is carved by hand and entirely decorated with gold leaf, copper and silver leaf.
original in its entirety without having undergone any restoration.

measure cm: h 90 x w100

about testolini
the testolini brothers saw their birth in venice in 1847. The company grew and became strong their position in the market in a period of enormous cultural and productive ferment for the lagoon capital venice

as we have said before, the testolini creations were also spread globally, and such furnishings have a certain success among the most visible audience: a flashy example is the pair of chairs of our interest once present, along with other furnishings of testolini, in the castle of moulbaox in belgium, owned by the important family of counts of ursel and although purchased when the brother testolini had ceased their activity, they had to have a huge resonance of the pair of armchairs chosen by marilin monroe for his home of los angeles and immortalized with her by allan grant in july 1962, to accompany the article centred on her by richard meryman13, (fig. 13). This piece has an attribution mark,
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