Psyché, invented at the end of the XVIIIe centuries, takes the shape of a large mobile mirror supported by two upright vertical, posed on a hollow basis or feet sometimes finished out of claws of Lion.With the empire the golden age of the great French traditional styles is completed.

The Restoration and Charles X mirror

The development of the Middle-class under the Restoration and the reign of Charles X gives a second breath to the mirror which between definitively during its industrial time.

Their framing appear generally decorated with moulded decorations.Mix of plaster and of glue, the stucco makes it possible to carry out ornaments in a minimum of time. One is satisfied to generally reproduce reasons borrowed from the preceding styles. Gilding offers the characteristic to present a double brilliant patina and subdue, the polishing of the mirror is done with agate.Very refined, the mirrors Charles X remain rare.

The Louis-Philippe mirror

During the Louis-Philippe reign, it is a middle-class style which develops, less concerned originality than comfort.The interior decoration mixes in an eclectic way the most various styles.
The large mirrors installed on walked bring a little clearness and of prospect in the room of life.
The models, of forms rectangular deprived of pediment, have angles rounded in their higher part.Gilded with the sheet and raised of chechmate part and brilliant, these mirrors are announced by their sober framing engraved with row of pearls.

The Napoléon III and end of centuries mirror

The second empire marks a new technical projection.
The mirrors are announced by their exuberant ornamentation. The taste of the pastiche seizes the manufacturers who imitate successfully all the last styles.Those in stucco and gilded wood join again with the tradition of the mirrors with parecloses and testify to a very beautiful quality of execution.
Most spectacular and typical are decorated with sheets of acanthus and draperies. Medallions out of engraved glass appear sometimes with the often framed pediment of vases.
The mirror of chimney is a great success until the end of the century. Old bevels sizes with the hand yield the place to modern bevels appeared as of the halves of the XIXe century. The decoration of the pediment with openwork reason for flowered basket points out the beautiful models of the XVIIIe century, the overload of the reasons is very revealing spirit Napoleon III.The mirror of chimney is a great success until the end of the century. Old bevels sizes with the hand yield the place to modern bevels appeared as of the halves of the XIXe century.