Fashionable Beauty Admiring Herself in the Mirror Bone China Mug

This design features a painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931), who lived and worked in Paris, France, for most of his artistic career. It shows a wealthy aristocratic woman dressed in elegant and expensive clothes. She is checking her appearance in a large mirror in a grand hall of the great mansion house where she lives. She is wearing a frilled dress with heeled shoes. There is elegant French furniture in the room and fine paintings on the wall. The lady is standing on parquet flooring, which is made from wooden blocks. She is clearly accustomed to living in a very elegant, extravagant and luxurious manner. Her beauty is very important to her.