In the front room at Lyric Hall Antiques and Conservation, a 400-year-old mirror is undergoing surgery. Whole passages of its gilt frame—florid segments that cross the mirror like vines—are missing and have to be carefully recreated, then gilded to match. John Cavaliere, the owner and principal of Lyric Hall, takes up a micron-thin square of […]
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