The Merlin mirror is a departure for me. It features a piece of heavy glass that has been engraved on both sides with concave indentations. Each of these create a small convex mirror once the glass has been silvered. The frame is gilded in silver with clear Venetian glass rods on the flat surface. The frame is surrounded by rock crystal quartz spheres.
The Merlin mirror is being shipped to my Atlanta showroom, Ainsworth-Noah. Call 404-231-8787 for more information.
The Merlin mirror is about 14 inches in diameter.
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The Merlin Mirror is named for the medieval mythical wizard Merlin. Merlin is an integral part of the King Arthur legend. He is featured in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur( 1485) and, of course, T.H. White’s novel The Once and Future King.
Merlin is a complicated character who has morphed over 14 centuries from the devil’s son to the ditsy sorcerer of Disney’s The Sword in the Stone.
As Peter H. Goodrich wrote in Merlin: A Casebook:
Merlin’s primary characteristics continue to be recalled, refined, and expanded today, continually encompassing new ideas and technologies as well as old ones. The ability of this complex figure to endure for more than fourteen centuries results not only from his manifold roles and their imaginative appeal, but also from significant, often irresolvable tensions or polarities […] between beast and human (Wild Man), natural and supernatural (Wonder Child), physical and metaphysical (Poet), secular and sacred (Prophet), active and passive (Counselor), magic and science (Wizard), and male and female (Lover). Interwoven with these primary tensions are additional polarities that apply to all of Merlin’s roles, such as those between madness and sanity, pagan and Christian, demonic and heavenly, mortality and immortality, and impotency and potency
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