Kettle Victorian Painted Pine Trinket Mirror
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Product code: S0068KD
Dimensions:
Depth: 200mm
Width: 620mm
Height: 620mm
Further product information:
Kettle Victorian Painted Pine Trinket Mirror:The collection comes fully assembled; some items may need basic assembly to allow for delivery.
KT Victorian Hand Carved Painted Bedroom Furniture
The Victorian Collection is a fully assembled range of furniture constructed of solid pine. It is painted and then completed with a lightly distressed finish.
Quality features include dovetail joints in drawer construction and the use of timber panelling for drawer bases and cabinet backs. Doors and large panels are decorated with curved mouldings, each finished with hand carved embellishments. These design motifs are repeated on cabinet edges and elsewhere.
This is a fully assembled range although some larger items such as beds and wardrobes may be partially dismantled to facilitate delivery.
Knots are the marks where a limb or branch has been cut off when trees are converted into planks. In new timber, nutrients in the form of resin may continue to pass through these points for some considerable time, causing 'bleeding' through to the surface. This is a natural process and is more noticeable with painted furniture.
3702 The invention of mass-produced glass mirrors
The glass mirror, or looking glass, is believed to have been developed during the Renaissance in the 14th or 15th Century. The technique for silvering the back of glass to produce a mirror was extremely difficult and expensive, so mirrors remained rare and valuable items right up until the early Victorian period. Then, in 1835, the German chemist Justus von Leibig developed a chemical method of coating glass with metallic silver and this facilitated the mass production techniques that made mirrors widely available.
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It appears the fashion for painting furniture coincided with the spread through Europe and Britain of the Renaissance and Baroque styles during the Jacobean era of the 17th Century. This was a movement that appealed to the highest standards of achievement and sophistication in all fields of human endeavour.
It is easy to imagine therefore, the appreciation people would have had for the difficulties involved in first creating paint, then successfully applying it to wood, and ultimately in producing items of painted furniture that looked so completely different from the wooden furniture that had been the norm.