POSSIBLY BY GERRIT JENSEN, CIRCA 1690-1700

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A WILLIAM AND MARY SEAWEED MARQUETRY, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CENTER TABLE
POSSIBLY BY GERRIT JENSEN, CIRCA 1690-1700
The rectangular top with panels of seaweed marquetry in an oyster veneered ground above a frieze drawer with seaweed marquetry panels on cabriole legs and a shaped stretcher with conforming marquetry and bun feet, later pulls
27½ in. (69.9 cm.) high, 35½ in. (90.2 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.4 cm.) deep

來源

Acquired from Macy Darling, Washington, D.C., 2 November 1976.

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The table features delicately rendered 'seaweed' or 'arabesque' marquetry whose character and pattern relate to the work of Gerrit Jensen (d. 1715), pre-eminent 'Cabbinet maker and Glasse seller' who supplied furniture for the Royal Palaces from 1690 through 1714. The design to the top incorporates masks. Similar masks appear on a chest-of-drawers illustrated by Adam Bowett, who suggests Jensen as the maker (see A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714 from Charles II to Queen Anne, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 202, fig. 7:13); recently sold by Christie's New York, 11 October 2007, lot 210. The chest's design also features a central crown, further comparing to a writing table of 'fine markatree with a Crown & cypher' that was supplied by Jensen for Kensington House in 1690 for 22 10s (R. W. Symonds, 'Gerrit Jensen, Cabinet-maker to the Royal Household,' The Connoisseur, January-June 1935, vol. 95, pp. 268-269, figs. I and II).
A cabinet-on-stand in the collection at Fairfax House, York features notably similar marquetry panels on an oyster-veneered ground and the same profile legs (see A. Bowett, op. cit., fig. 7:12).