Veidrodžiai be interjerų: kišeniniai, rankiniai ir pastatomi veidrodėliai, šukės
Mirrors without interior: pocket mirrors, hand mirrors, small standing mirrors, mirror shards

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the history of small mirrors in Lithuania in the 14th-20th centuries. The object of the research is small mirrors not related to interior or furniture: pocket mirrors, hand mirrors, small standing mirrors, and mirror shards. Because of the lack of historiography and sources directly related to the object, the research involves the history of costume, toilet and hygiene. These three fields represent small mirrors as accessories and toiletries used across all social layers - from upper-class to simple citizens. Small mirrors were taken to short or longer journeys or bought there - journeys were one of opportunities to purchase such a luxury thing. This research shows that broken mirrors or mirror shards were valued and also used for toilet or hygiene purpose. Only in the first half of the 20th century we can find manufactures which repaired broken and damaged mirrors.

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