Mirror Back

Workshop of Louis Marcy (Luigi Parmeggiani) Italian

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This mirror back was mistakenly thought to be a Parisian work of about 1300 because it displays the arms of Luisignan of Poitou France) and England. Such a highly personalized and luxurious mirror would have been a unique survival from the Middle Ages.

Mirror Back, Workshop of Louis Marcy (Luigi Parmeggiani) (Italian, 1860–1945) (?), Gilded silver and translucent enamel, French

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Mirror Back, Workshop of Louis Marcy (Luigi Parmeggiani) (Italian, 1860–1945) (?), Gilded silver and translucent enamel, French
Mirror Back, Workshop of Louis Marcy (Luigi Parmeggiani) (Italian, 1860–1945) (?), Gilded silver and translucent enamel, French

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