Mirror with inlaid decoration, Netherlands 17th century

A mirror with a "cassetta" frame in walnut with an inverted profile. It presents an inlaid decoration of vegetal motifs in the corners, framed by two friezes of guilloché in blackened wood. The central glass is tinned with mercury.
The angle marquetry recalls that observed on the doors of the Dutch cabinets of the second half of the seventeenth century.

Period: 2nd half of the 17th century

State of conservation: 1 guilloché stick and outer rod replaced.