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Miroir soleil en bois doré à glace bombée, vers 1960

Une couronne de rayons sculptés, longs et courts en alternance, s'étend autour d'une glace bombée qui ramasse toute la pièce dans son reflet. Chaque rayon se découpe en flamme, creusé de cannelures et de replis qui s'ourlent vers la pointe ; la dorure, chaude, laisse apparaître par endroits un fond rougeâtre et quelques usures. Un cadre rond, mouluré d'un fin rang de perles, isole le miroir. Sous un éclairage latéral, les reliefs se découpent en ombres courtes et l'or passe du miel au bronze.

Le soleil s'est fait miroir au XVIIe siècle, lorsque l'astre devient l'emblème de Louis XIV et se retrouve sculpté et doré à Versailles. On l'associe souvent à la glace convexe dite miroir de sorcière, familière des intérieurs flamands dès le XVe siècle, et c'est bien une glace bombée qu'enserrent ici les rayons. Le type revient au milieu du XXe siècle, quand l'Italie et la France produisent des miroirs soleil en bois doré. Daté des environs de 1960, celui-ci ne porte aucune indication d'atelier ni de pays.

Époque
Vers 1960
Matière
Bois doré
Style
Design des années 1950 et 1960
Dimensions
Diam. 72 cm ; inclusion des rayons non précisée
État
En l'état
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A crown of carved rays, long and short in alternation, spreads around a convex glass that gathers the whole room into its reflection. Each ray is cut like a flame, hollowed with flutes and folds that curl towards the tip; the warm gilding reveals a reddish ground in places, along with some wear. A round frame, moulded with a fine beaded fillet, sets the mirror apart. Under side lighting the reliefs break into short shadows and the gold shifts from honey to bronze.

The sun became a mirror in the seventeenth century, when it was taken as the emblem of Louis XIV and carved and gilded throughout Versailles. It is often paired with the convex glass known as a witch's mirror, familiar in Flemish interiors from the fifteenth century, and it is indeed a convex glass that the rays enclose here. The type returned in the mid twentieth century, when Italy and France produced sunburst mirrors in gilt wood. Dated to around 1960, this one carries no indication of workshop or country.

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  • Le miroir soleil remonte au XVIIe siècle et à l'emblème solaire de Louis XIV, sculpté et doré à Versailles ; il est souvent associé à un miroir convexe dit miroir de sorcière, répandu dans les foyers flamands dès le XVe siècle. https://www.silesobjetspouvaientparler.com/miroir-soleil/
  • Des miroirs soleil en bois doré ont été produits en Italie et en France dans les années 1950 et 1960. https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/mirrors/sunburst-mirrors/origin/italian/

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