early 20th century, Arts and Crafts Dragestil style decoration, elaborate Viking revival imagery, interlaced strapwork designs with dragons and monsters, front with figures toasting with doves and dog in front of home, raised inscription on back "Søkkvabekk - Mirror" and "Odin and Saga at Søkkvabekk", on handle "For the family with the admonition to always consider before acting, aware that Saga Griffel relentlessly records both bad and good" and around mirror "The father of the family gives his wife/the mirror for her to keep it open/the mirror is given/the present and past/transition between past and future", marked "H. Møller 22 K Trondhjem", 587.23 grams (with glass mirror removed but not paper liner or wax), 8-3/4 in.

Provenance: Brunk Auction, September 14, 2018, lot 709; Private Collection

Note: Norwegian silversmith Henrik Møller (1858-1937) was from a fourth generation family of jewelers who moved to Trondheim in 1770. Henrik started his apprenticeship at the age of 14 in the family workshop. He traveled and studied in Copenhagen, Vienna, and New York. He later returned to Trondheim and opened his shop in 1900, and was a major proponent of Dragestil (Dragon Style), a Norse Revival style of the Arts & Crafts period that used Viking era and early Medieval motifs. Much of his work was influenced by the architecture of Trondheim. Henrik catered to royalty, industrialists, and wealthy tourists prior to World War I, including Andrew Carnegie, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and King Chulalongkorn of Siam, now Thailand.Examples of Henrik Møller works can be found in Kunstindustrimuseet (Museum of Art) in Oslo and the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim. 

For similar examples at auction in silver see Christie's online auction 20673, New York, April 5, 2022, lot 68, sold for $88,200 and Christie's auction 17423, August 22, 2019, New York, lot 108.