IN THE MANNER OF JEAN PELLETIER, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR
IN THE MANNER OF JEAN PELLETIER, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular bevelled central plate flanked by two smaller rectangular plates with waved bevelled vertical divide, in a strapwork and foliage-carved frame, the reverse inscribed in chalk '135 July/1/9' and in blue chalk '4666', stencilled '36p', regilt, probably originally a picture frame, the plates later
30 x 54 in. (76 x 137 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The overmantel mirror, with bevelled and scalloped tripartite glasses, has a torus-moulded frame wreathed by a ribbon-scrolled guilloche of Roman acanthus that relates in particular to a 'Corniche' pattern in the Louis Quatorze 'Roman' fashion issued around 1700 in the Nouveaux Livre d'ornement of William III's Paris-trained architect, Daniel Marot (d. 1752). The same flowered guilloche features on the torus-moulded frieze of a late 1680s pier-table, that bears the coronet ensigned cypher of William III's Master of the Wardrobe, Ralph, Earl of Montagu (d. 1709) and has been attributed to the Huguenot carvers Jean and René Pelletier (T. Murdoch, 'Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726 - Part I', Burlington Magazine, November 1997, p. 738, fig. 11). The same patterned guilloche also appears on a picture frame, that is thought to have been supplied for Ralph Montagu's London house, and has been attributed to Thomas and René Pelletier and dated to around 1705 (Victoria & Albert Museum, no. W.2 - 1999).

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