Lot n° 276
Estimation :
20000 - 30000
EUR
RARE baroque MIRROR in a pedimented frame,... - Lot 276 - Crait + Müller
RARE baroque MIRROR in a pedimented frame, with a double frame of repoussé copper gilded with mercury, leafy moldings, acanthus and grotesque masks set with a jasper cabochon in the four corners. On the glazing beads, cut rock crystal flowers with petals and others in transparent or colored molded glass.
Northern Italy, Venice and Murano.
Last quarter of 17th century or early 18th century.
H. 75 l. 50 cm
REFERENCES AND LITERATURE :
- Christie's, sale 21607 of October 23, 2022, Anne and Gordon Getty Collection: lot 540, a similar mirror; lot 541, pair of octagonal mirrors (118 x 88 cm) (provenance: baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, 6th earl of Rosebery) ;
- Poldi Pezzoli Museum, an octagonal pair (Milan 1983 p. 358);
- G. Child, World Mirrors, London, 1990 p.241, fig.538
Around 1700, in Venice - which in France corresponds to the end of the Louis XIV era - Murano glassmakers demonstrated and confirmed their technical excellence, unrivalled in Europe: mirrors, glass engraving, blown, molded and spun glass.
Among their decorative creations, mirrors play an important role, framed by paint, lacquer, arte povera or gilded metal, as seen here.
The workshop from which our mirror comes (identical in every respect to the one in the A & G. Getty collection), with its original rock crystal and polychrome molded glass decoration, also produced a number of octagonal mirrors with similar specific decoration.
Their exceptional, sought-after quality is the result of a combination of quality, originality and Baroque fantasy.
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