Keywords: Workshop of the Embriachi family - Mirror Frame - Walters 7192.jpg This frame once held a mirror made of convex glass or polished metal The present mirror is a modern replacement This is a type of decorative personal luxury object that might be part of a bride's dowry; the empty shields would have been painted with the coats of arms of the wedded pair Mirrors were made in significant quantities by 15th-century north Italian artisans imitating the popular bone and ivory objects with distinctive inlays of stained wood and horn produced earlier in the workshop of Baldassare Embriachi about 1390-1435 in Venice century 15 Medieval bone wood and horn inlay cm 44 7 27 6 3 accession number 71 92 7516 F Ongania Venice date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 place of origin north Venice Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Embriachi workshop Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |