ROUND MIRROR, SORCIÈRE, WITCH MIRROR - 1950s
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Round gilded mirror in resin. Decorated with spheres, black striped internal profile. It is a round and convex mirror, which reflects an all-encompassing image of the room in which it is placed: due to the curved surface, the reflection is deformed as if by a wide-angle lens - a distortion called “barrel” in photographic jargon. Also called "bankers' mirrors", they were used since the 14th century by money changers and goldsmiths to keep their shop under control with a greater view. Yet it is two hundred years later, in the furnishing of northern European bourgeois interiors, that these mirrors t