A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD WALL BRACKET

POSSIBLY BY JEAN OR THOMAS PELLETIER, CIRCA 1700

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A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD WALL BRACKET
POSSIBLY BY JEAN OR THOMAS PELLETIER, CIRCA 1700
The outset top on openwork support centered by a mask with feathered headdress amidst strapwork and acanthus foliage
15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high, 12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm.) wide, 7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973.

Lot Essay

The distinctive acanthus-wrapped scroll and mask design relates closely to the work of Jean Pelletier (d.1704), and his sons Thomas and René. 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 (see T. Murdoch, 'Jean, René and and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726', The Burlington Magazine, part I, November 1997, pp. 732-742 and part II, June 1998, pp. 363-374).

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