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- Toilet mirror
- Unknown Artist / Maker
- Pierre Ladoireau, Goldsmith, gilt-bronze sphinx feet and border
- France
- 1713
1800 - 1900 (looking-glass)
1863 - 1863 (coronet added by Delaroche) - Oak, ebony, première-partie Boulle marquetry of brass and turtleshell, gilt bronze, brass feet, glass
- Height: 73 cm
Width: 56 cm - F50
- Billiard Room
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- This toilet mirror was supplied to the duchesse de Berry (1695-1719) by the dealer Alexis Delaroue in 1713. Although previously attributed to Boulle, the style of decoration is very unlike other work by the celebrated cabinet-maker and is not now believed to be by him. The sphinx feet and some of the gilt-bronze border were added later in the same year by the goldsmith Pierre Ladoireau. The design of the première-partie marquetry on the back of the mirror is after an engraving by Jean Bérain (1637-1711), in 1674 appointed Dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi. At some time in the eighteenth century the arms of the duchesse de Berry (1695-1719), daughter of Philippe, duc d’Orléans, Regent of France, were removed. The present marquess’s coronet was added for the 4th Marquess of Hertford in 1868.
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