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.