Aesop's Mirror

"Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it"

What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than eight feet tall), the mirror was one of the most unusual objects she had ever seen. Huggins had to have it.

The frame''s elaborate carvi...