Twee spiegelblakers
Also titled Two mirror sconces
c. 1755 - c. 1770
- Medium
- looking glasses, gilding (material), wood (plant material), paint (coating), linden, amalgam, glass
- Classification
- frame
- Dimensions
- height 81 cm x width 51 cm x depth 7.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
These mirrors, painted in Canton (China), were specially made for export. They were later framed in the Netherlands in the then-current Rococo style. Thus were exotic mirrors adapted to suit Dutch interiors. Originally there would have been a metal arm at lower centre to hold two candles. The mirrors belonged to Jean Theodore Royer, a well-known collector of Chinese objects in The Hague.
