Trumeau mirrors are designed where the bottom portion is the mirror itself, while the top is generally decorative.
Trumeau mirrors were intended to hang on the wall between windows providing a decorative element to the wall as well as serve a purpose of bringing in more light.
Reverse Painting On Glass has been practiced for a long time in the Orient. In America, its greatest popularity happened during the early 1800s. Reverse Painting on Glass were utilized in clocks and mirrors.
Reverse Painted Mirrors requires special skills because the artist paints the design on the back side of the glass for viewing from the front side.
Cheval mirrors are full-length, swinging mirrors hung between two posts, often anchored by a cross-beam across the top. This type of mirror is especially nice because it is mobile and it can be tilted at any angle to provide just the right view for any height.
