Live Auction 1585European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A WILLIAM & MARY WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY WALL MIRROR
Lot 149

A WILLIAM & MARY WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY WALL MIRROR

DUTCH, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Closed16 April 2014

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GBP 10,000

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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

With Asprey & Co., London, November 1977.

Specialist note

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.