A SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL EXPOSITION DRESSING TABLE MIRROR

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A SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL EXPOSITION DRESSING TABLE MIRROR
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1900; DESIGNED BY PAULDING FARNHAM FOR THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900

In the Indian taste, applied overall with green enamel paillons, the cartouche-shaped mirror with scroll border applied at intervals with flowerheads, supported by two fluted columns raised on spreading circular bases with flaring steps and surmounted by openwork foliate scroll and flowerhead finials joined by an overhead arch, marked with Paris Exposition mark--overall height 20 1/2in.; overall length 22in.

Lot Essay

This dressing table mirror is labelled "Boudoir Mirror, Burmese Silvergilt" in the Tiffany photograph album from the Paris Exposition of 1900. The caption describes it as "ornamented on every surface with small ornamental rings, in the centre of each of which is set a small green enamel disk, to represent glass ornanment of the Burmese."