Found in Avignon, this early 20th-century French vanity mirror was cast in brass with all the drama of a small piece of theatre. A Bacchus head crowns the top, winged griffins flank the sides, and a tangle of scrolling acanthus runs around the frame. Mirrors like this lived on French dressing tables among the perfume bottles and the silver brushes, the small audience for getting ready in the morning. The brass has darkened in the recesses and worn bright along the high points where fingers have lifted it for a hundred years. Sylvie sets it on a dresser among small things - a glass dish for earrings, a single rose in a bud vase, the bottle she actually wears.
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