Testimony of the Gilded Mirror
I was made in Venice in the year 1742, in a workshop on the Rio dei Vetrai where the air was perpetually thick with the smell of molten silica and the sound of glass being blown into shapes that had never existed before. My frame is gilded wood, carved with a pattern of acanthus leaves and cherubs that was fashionable among the Venetian merchant class in the middle decades of the eighteenth...
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