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Description: | An easel-supported toilet mirror with a Boulle marquetry frame of red-backed turtleshell, brass and pewter.
'Tarsia a incastro' was a marquetry technique developed around 1620 by Italian marqueters working in Italy. The technique is often referred to as 'Boulle' marquetry because of its association with the famous French cabinet-maker Andr?-Charles Boulle (1642-1734).
Size: Height: 35 cm; Width: 28 cm.
Founders' bequest, X.220 | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 710 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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