Fine Decorative Arts & Designs from 1870

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Lot 122
  • 122

Serge Roche

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • A mirror
  • 96cm. high by 96cm. wide;
  • 3ft. 1¾in.
paper covered wood and lucite, reverse painted to resemble marble and trompe-l'oeil scrolls, of triple offset pentagonal form, the middle tier with raised facets, the exterior outline forming a ten pointed star

Provenance

Galerie Anne-Sophie Duval, Paris. 

Literature

A mirror of this form is included in a gouache (illustrated here) of the entrance hall of Roche's Las Cases apartment in Paris.  See: Bruno Foucart, Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Les Décorateurs des Années 40, Paris, 1999, p. 236.