A fine Louis XIV style giltwood table de milieu in the manner of Jean Pelletier French, circa 1850

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

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Description

height 32 1/2 in.; width 46 in.; depth 23 in.
82.6 cm; 116.8 cm; 58.4 cm

the rectangular rouge de flandre marble top above a frieze with leaf-carved strap-work and plumes above a male mask on one side, a female mask on the other, the tapered legs headed by acanthus scrolls and joined by a leaf-carved x-stretcher centered by a sunflower.

Catalogue Note

The present table is drawn directly from a center table attributed to Jean Pelletier made circa 1699, now in the permanent collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor castle. Jean Pelletier and his two sons, René and Thomas, were Huguenots who left Paris in the 1680s, presumably to avoid persecution after the Revocation of the edict of Nantes. Jean is first recorded in England around 1681-1682.