Elegant Louis XV-regency Style Beaded Mirror In Golden Wood. Napoleon III Period.

Ample octagonal beveled mirror inscribed in a frame with wooden and gilded stucco beads generously molded around its edges with a frieze of pearls or ovates alternating with water leaves and carved with rich ornamental motifs of Rocaille inspiration, such that: corner staples decorated with acanthus flowers centered with mirrored half-shells, volutes and crossettes of foliaged acanthus on the slopes, palmette shells in the lower part. This entire composition is harmoniously crowned with an openwork pediment with a scalloped profile formed by twining ancanthus foliages setting a superb shell with wavy edges centered with a domed mirror and stamped with fan-shaped acanthus leaves. Under this crowning, an undulating garland of country flowers unfolds. Coquettish, this one, just like the flowers blooming on the slopes of the mirror, gives it an alert and laughing touch like the pieces of mirrorwork created in the 18th century under the flourishing reign of Louis XV. Ample and elegant shape, balanced composition wisely scrolled, lively Rocaille ornamentation stitched with a charming note of country freshness are the seductive trappings and assets of this beautiful beaded mirror. Made during the second half of the 19th century, it generously reinvents the chandelier, the exquisite sensitivity of an era highly appreciated in the decorative arts by the society of the Second Empire and the beginnings of the Third Republic. Parisian work in Louis XV-Regence style from the second half of the 19th century. Napoleon III period, Circa 1870. Dimensions: H.: 118 cm;- L.: 95 cm. Materials: wood and gilded stucco; original tin. Very good state.