DUTCH, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Details

A WILLIAM & MARY WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY WALL MIRROR
DUTCH, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The rectangular plate within cushion-moulded border elaborately inlaid with trailing flowerheads, foliage and scrolling arabesque angles and with bone-inlaid floral details, restorations
64 ½ in. (164 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide

Provenance

With Asprey & Co., London, November 1977.

Literature

Apollo, November 1977.

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Lot Essay

A mirror, circa 1675, with related decorated floral marquetry and of virtually identical dimensions was in the collection of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale, at Ham House, Surrey. The Ham House mirror has recently been attributed by Reinier Baarsen to Gerrit Jensen (d. 1715), who was Dutch by birth but worked for the English royal family and nobility. The similarity of the present Dutch mirror to the Ham House mirror, described as English, demonstrates the close affinity between Dutch and English furniture of this period.

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