Deco Floral
Deco Floral
Wall Mirror is one of the categories of high quality and great looking mirrors that the U.K based company Midnight Mirrors has been providing to its customers. These Wall Mirrors are renowned for their design and quality throughout the world. If chosen and placed properly in the home, they have the unique power of adding a lot of charm and beauty to the interior decoration of the house.
Wall Mirrors plays a vital role in giving a perfect touch to the decoration of the room. The Wall Mirror that we provide you will enable you to transform an ordinary space into an extraordinary place and adds to the artistic value of the decoration. Wall Mirror does not only add beauty it is also compliments the other furniture in the room. When a framed wall mirror is added, it gives the impression of the room to be larger than it is. Instead of using traditional artwork behind the sofa a well framed wall mirror can be used for giving extra attraction. One thing that holds equal importance as the use of a particular thing is the “STYLE & THEME” of it. A good combination of style with correct theme can work wonders for the look of the house.
This is the reason why we at Midnight Mirrors even take orders for designing wall mirrors to suit your individual requirements and taste. Wall mirror matches with different choices of themes Floral, Nautical, Tropical and Exotic” Etc. To add to the soothing ambience of a room, place a Wall Mirror behind a candle holder. While putting a Wall Mirror make sure it is placed across from a source of light or a window. This will help you make the room better lighted because of the reflection the mirror produces. If you want to have quick look into the mirror before you leave your house place a wall mirror near the entrance. Looking into a great mirror will make you will more confident as you leave for your work place.
So make sure that you walk in our store or visit our website because we know what suits your taste and the place you are living at.
The French 18th century saw the full flowering of decorative art and France led the rest of Europe in artistic expression and high style. It was in the region of Marseille that saw the production of some of the most beautiful examples of French faience. “Faience” being the French name for tin glazed earthenware,
known to the Dutch and English as “Delft” and “Majolica” in Italy.
One of the most outstanding of these manufactories was opened in 1740 by Claude Perrin (1696-1748) & when he died in 1748 it was his widow,
Madame Pierrette Candelot, who took over the management of production. This alone, in the middle of the 18th century, was considered highly unusual.
Under her leadership production flourished, especially the quality of the flower painting. With outstanding foresight Madam Perrin enrolled her faience painters in French art academies to develop and refine the elegant style of flower painting that we can see today. Painting on faience was notoriously difficult, the painter using the glazed faïence surface as the canvas.
The French 18th century was the century of the Rococo and floral painting was expressed in this beautiful style.
The style known as “Décor Floral Naturaliste le Grand Fleur” is naturalistic, although not botanical, informal and yet with a sense of formality. Flower painting of loose bouquets of summer flowers, small sprays and sprigs, quite often with moths and butterflies, ladybirds and caterpillars and it is known that many of the painters picked bunches of flowers on the way to work as models for the day.
The majority of pieces produced are marked with the letters “VP” the initials for the French “Veuve Perrin” which means Perrin’s widow. Madame Perrin died in 1793 and production continued, although in decline until 1803.
The manufactory struggled through the violence of the French revolution which finally saw the collapse of the Rococo “Déco Floral”.
“A very rare, mid 18th century, French Faience vase as a table lamp of great charm. This is an early example of the Faience of Claude Perrin of Marseille.
The lamp delicately painted in a bright palette of enamels with a large loose bouquet of summer flowers and garden insects.The flowers include pink and yellow roses, forget-me-nots, daisies and morning glory.The lamp on a 19th century French ormolu base of Rococo style.”
These summer flowers are 260 years old and still as fresh as the summer of 1750!
Veuve Perrin – Louis VX - Circa 1750 Overall height 22″/56cm
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view.
Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.
You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com
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About the Author:
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery,with his commercial experience spaning a period of 40 years,including as a valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
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