Carlos III style mirror; Spain, c. 1760.

Carlos III style mirror; Spain, c. 1760.
Carved and gilded wood.
Presents faults.
Measurements: 209 x 140 x 8 cm.
Carlos III style mirror with rectangular frame that is completed with a baroque carving developing in the wide top, worked with sinuous foliage.It should be noted that in the Spain of the eighteenth century there is a great evolution, from a common furniture towards 1700, within a very conservative panorama, to a splendid furniture, of great quality and artistic personality, at the end of the century. The change took place with Charles III (queen between 1759 and 1788), in view of the need to furnish the new palace. The level of demand, of quality, in the furniture increases a lot. As a result of this, there will be an extraordinary improvement in the second half of the 18th century. With Charles III we will see the last stage of Rococo furniture, a furniture that, unlike what happens in the rest of Europe, takes Italy and not France as a reference.