IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS AND RENE PELLETIER, CIRCA 1710

Details

A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD PIER GLASS
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS AND RENE PELLETIER, CIRCA 1710
The beveled plates surmounted by a C-scroll and foliate cresting within beaded borders, clasps to border plate dividers replaced, the mirror plates apparently original and re-silvered
73 in. (185.5 cm.) high, 36 ½ in. (93 cm.) wide

Provenance

The late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Canterbury, Kent; Christie's house sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 197.

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Sale room notice

Please note that there is additional provenance on this lot. The mirror was previously in the collection of Sir Arthur Sutton.

Lot Essay

This finely executed mirror relates closely to the work of the royal cabinet-makers Thomas and René Pelletier, sons of Jean Pelletier (d.1704). 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. A mirror with verre eglomisé borders from Halnaby, Yorkshire, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum features a very similar cresting and inner beaded border (see T. Murdoch, 'Jean, René and and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726', The Burlington Magazine, part II, June 1998, p. 371, fig. 16).

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