An antique long-handled mirror set is shown side by side, mounted flat, with the painted sides visible. The smaller oval shape on the left side has a brilliant pearlescent white blaze with golden rays extending into a deep red filling the entire surface. The underlying brocade texture is visible amidst the brush strokes. To the right, the larger mirror's background of deep rose pink, has the arching starry blue figure of the Goddess Nut with the Sun at her chest and a crescent Moon at her hips. Her body transverses nearly the full area, as she is bending over what seems to be the Earth, depicted as a circle of the exposed original brocade fabric in the lower center field. The art nouveau style handles have worn gold-plating revealing the gray metal beneath through years of use.
An antique long-handled mirror set is shown side by side, mounted flat, with the mirrored sides visible. The smaller oval shape on the left side has a one-inch diameter mirror in the center of a starry night sky filling the entire surface, that is edged in deep red. To the right, the entire surface is the original beveled mirror. The art nouveau style handles have worn gold-plating revealing the gray metal beneath, that has been exposed through years of use.

What Nut Sees When She Turns Herself Inside Out

12″ x 6″ x 1/2″ and 10″ x 4″ x 1/2″

Antique brocade hand mirror and brush with worn gold leaf, acrylics, mirror.

—This piece has been collected—

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