Blurry almost amazing picture of antique mirror

I am posting this picture because of the story. This is one of nine mirrors hanging in a room at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. The Driskill Hotel is the oldest hotel in my home town where I grew up and still live yet somehow I hadn't step foot into until it a few days ago. Here is some bio info:

"The Driskill Hotel, a Romanesque style building completed in 1886, is the oldest operating hotel in Austin, Texas, USA, and one of the best-known hotels in Texas generally. The Driskill was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune constructing "the finest hotel south of St. Louis"."

It is an amazing place. I can't believe I haven't been there. I must go back. It is at once regal and campy. Anything goes. There were people dressed to the nines, people in jeans and yes a few people walking around in sombreros. It was a perfect dichotomy of Austin.

Anyway, in one of the banquet rooms hangs a set of 9 mirrors that are collectively worth $19 million. They all have their original glass and all have matching gilded frames with the beautiful statue heads at the top. I have never seen their equal and probably never will again.

I took this picture with my camera phone that does not have a flash in a room dimly lit with beautiful antique chandeliers. It didn't come out well, but it is enough for me to remember the night and remember the beauty of those mirrors. They are several hundred years old. I kept thinking of all of the faces and things that had been reflected in them over the years and how many more reflections they will see. Hopefully, they will survive long past us all to be a testament to the beauty of the artist who created them and the wonderful people who have preserved them all these years. I become a puddle before great pieces of artistic history like this. :)