Antique Vanity Mirror!
- elly
- Sep 10, 2019
- 2 min read

Mirror on the wall ... well in this case not on the wall but an antique makeup mirror in your home. Initially, "Natural" glass was used to make glass products, which originate from volcanoes that melt granite and turn into glass when cooled. Later people learned to make glass but the origin was unknown, glass beads appeared around 4000 BC. and the first glass industry did not start until then led to the creation of mirrors.
With so many styles to choose from, you can design your home by expressing yourself through decorations. A favorite for many people is to fill their precious corners and walls with history using antique mirrors from the past. Is that an antique? Old collection items. What makes vanity with antique mirrors? Age, beauty, scarcity, condition and history. Antiques are often family heirlooms handed down from venetian mirrored furniture generation to generation and antique vanities with mirrors are very special because they are often made by someone with a wooden love and an artist's heart. Workmanship is usually unique and appropriate for what the craftsman wants and many times you can tell who the craftsman is with their personal touch to the finished product.
Makeup mirrors come in a variety of shapes and styles. Oval, with or without inlay. Square, oblong, three sides, tall, short and so on. All of them can have different designs engraved in them. Mirrors can also be made with various colors of glass which can provide a smoky reflection mirror, light reflection or everyday bright reflection. The gold mirror frame was popular in the 1700s and covered with real gold on leaf etchings, but very few can afford it. Usually only very wealthy people have it or they are installed on ships or in public areas in high-end businesses.
Madame and the brothel are famous for their vanity with mirrors for the seating of their women. Hand-held makeup mirrors were popular when they appeared in the early days of ancient Greece and Rome and people could afford them, then long mirrors were made. Today you can buy beautiful antique vanity tables and antique vanity mirrors in countless places. You can buy a mirror that is surrounded by brass or wood that is used on a table or dressing table or an antique dressing mirror that is attached to a dressing table or hutch type dresser.
Beautiful old hand-held makeup mirrors with ceramic, wood or metal tiles on the venetian mirrors cheap back and colorful images are also on the market. Just holding one in your hand can make you see that the workmanship is not only for the dressing table or dressing table mirror but for the handheld mirror as well. There are so many choices and so many styles that you will definitely want to research and compare several prices, but in the end this furniture and mirror is a beautiful warm edition for any home.
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