Two Small Chippendale Style Mirrors Raymond LaMontagne, Jr. (1939-2024), Rhode Island, c. 1990 Scroll-cut tiger maple frames, both retaining 'R. La Montagne' label on reverse, each 19 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. Footnotes: Note Raymond LaMontagne (1939-2024) was a fourth-generation Rhode Island woodworker, whose great-grandfather migrated from Quebec to Providence in 1899. He obtained tiger maple stock from a sawmill on Route 101 in North Scituate from the 1970s through the 1990s. Raymond was the brother of sculptor Armand LaMontagne, who in 1969 famously forged a Pilgrim Century Brewster Chair that was accessioned by the Henry Ford Museum, supposedly as retribution for his insulting treatment by a curator at the Wallace Nutting Museum in Framingham, Massachusetts. Raymond's careful labeling of his own bench-made Queen Anne- and Chippendale-style furnishings indicates necessary, scrupulous honesty by comparison. As some of these labels state, he passed the family trade on to his sons Christopher and Henry, who are active woodcarvers in New England. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing