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Two ornamental pins at the bottom 
hold this to the wall 
An old oval mirror with leaf design 
on the frame 
A style that harmonizes with 
Chippendale furniture 
A Colonial style with perhaps too 
heavy a frame 
Colonial rooms should have the simpler types of mirrors with 
broad, flat frames, either with or without divisions in the glass. 
French rooms need the florid ornamentation of rococo work 
of the gilt mirror, or the flamboyant or flamelike design. 
If your furniture is “period” furniture, and you wish to have 
mirrors to correspond as nearly as possible, here are a few gen¬ 
eral rules to follow in selecting: 
To correspond with Chippendale furniture select a mirror with 
a curved top, with open and fantastically ornamented frame 
carved in soft wood and gilt. 
Adam furniture is matched by oval mirrors with festoons, gar¬ 
lands and medallions as decorations—light and charming. 
The' Heppelwhite designs are, like the Adam, graceful and 
charming, and mostly in ovals, ornamented with festoons of the 
favorite falling bellflower pattern. 
The Empire mirror is rectangular, marked by columns at the 
sides and sometimes at top and bottom as well; and in the case of 
a mantel mirror, between the glasses. 
The mirrors popular in the day of Sheraton furniture were 
usually concave or convex, with gilt frame and branches for 
candles. Many of these are still preserved in American homes. 
These concave and convex glasses, by the way, were known as 
mirrors in Colonial times in contradistinction to the plain glasses 
which were called looking-glasses. 
The looking-glass for the toilet is confined to the rooms above 
stairs; its only really utilitarian place downstairs—unless, of 
course, there are bedrooms on the ground floor—is near the 
entrance door, or in the kitchen: near the entrance where a guest 
may glance before entering the reception or living-room proper, 
and the resident before going into the street: in the kitchen where 
the maid may view herself before she answers the bell or goes 
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Such formal styles suit 
the drawing-room 
This is a common Colonial form with the 
black silhouettes in the upper panel 
The Empire style has columns at 
the sides and gilt ornaments 
The painting scene is often an 
important feature 
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