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Lot Essay
A similar tortoiseshell japanned cabinet in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London is illustrated in H. Hayward, ed., World Furniture, London, 1965, col.plate opposite p. 112.
The design of the stand, wtih its broad strapwork frieze entwined with scrolling acanthus, squared tapering legs and scrolled X-form supports centered by a platform conforms to work produced by the royal cabinet-maker Jean Pelletier (d.1704) and his sons René and Thomas. This family of carvers and gilders of French Huguenot extraction supplied pier tables, mirrors, candlestands and frames to William III and Queen Anne as well as for other notable patrons such as Ralph, Earl and later 1st Duke of Montagu, Master of the Wardrobe to William III, for his London home and Boughton House, Northamptonshire. Related table bases in the Royal collection are illustrated in T. Murdoch, 'Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Hugueot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726', The Burlington Magazine, part I, November 1997, p. 737, fig.7 and part II, June 1998, fig.9.
The design of the stand, wtih its broad strapwork frieze entwined with scrolling acanthus, squared tapering legs and scrolled X-form supports centered by a platform conforms to work produced by the royal cabinet-maker Jean Pelletier (d.1704) and his sons René and Thomas. This family of carvers and gilders of French Huguenot extraction supplied pier tables, mirrors, candlestands and frames to William III and Queen Anne as well as for other notable patrons such as Ralph, Earl and later 1st Duke of Montagu, Master of the Wardrobe to William III, for his London home and Boughton House, Northamptonshire. Related table bases in the Royal collection are illustrated in T. Murdoch, 'Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Hugueot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726', The Burlington Magazine, part I, November 1997, p. 737, fig.7 and part II, June 1998, fig.9.