EXCEPTIONAL LOUIS XIV ERA GLACE, FRANCE, 17th CENTURY PARISIAN WORKSHOPS in gilded, molded and carved wood, decorated with ice reserves and beveled rods, one of them restored, a slight accident to the rebate and restoration of use, pediment with warrior attributes and Indian heads, quivers, lion's heads make up a decorative repertoire of the highest order with a central glass blown and mercurized period glass of exceptional size for the time An exceptional Louis XIV ormolu mirror, 17th century Parisian workshop, France 240 x 125 CM - 94,5 x 49,2 IN. - - The 18th century saw, thanks to the combined action of Louis XIV and his minister Colbert, a spectacular development of the mirror industry in France. We have here the most beautiful expression of the ingenuity of the French ornamentalists and craftsmen of the great century. The use of large mirrors, worked and beveled, sublimated by a work of sculpture and gilding bringing together all the trappings and clichés in vogue at the time: Quivers symbolizing power, Indian heads the political expansion of the kingdom, lions' heads and chimeras the power of the King himself. The whole with the lightness and transparency due to the reserves of glazes and the beveled rods of the frame on the entire surface body and pediment. The size and the quality of realization make our mirror a rare model destined without any doubt for a great house.