EXCEPTIONAL LARGE leather screen painted... - Lot 22 - Aguttes

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EXCEPTIONAL LARGE leather screen painted... - Lot 22 - Aguttes
EXCEPTIONAL LARGE leather screen painted in polychrome and embossed. It consists of eight leaves decorated with sumptuous palaces where many Chinese characters are busy, flowering foliage, birds and garlands of flowers and fruits. The border is decorated with vases and baskets filled with fruit and flowers. England, first half of the 18th century. Height : 285 cm - Length : 430 cm One leaf : 53 cm The use of leather hangings was widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries. The technique, originating in Cordoba in Spain, spread to Northern Europe, and especially to Mechelen in Flanders which had made a specialty of it. Our screen comes rather from England. Its technique differs by the embossing which is not in relief but slightly in hollow and with the small irons as for the sheathing of furnishing. The skins, before being painted, are silvered with silver leaf in order to give more density to the colors and then are embossed in places to catch the light and accentuate the effect of depth of the decoration. A screen from the same workshop and of similar dimensions with birds on a gold background was sold, including expenses, 1 984 000 Francs (511 628) at the Hôtel Drouot on November 30, 1988 by the Delorme study assisted by Mr Jean-Paul Fabre, expert. A screen using the same techniques but with a decoration in three cartouches per leaf and signed "Holford maker, at the Golden Lyon and Bull, St Paul's Churchyard" is reproduced in "the shorter dictionary of English furniture" by Mr. Ralph Edwards, Country Life Editions. A similar screen is in the Leather Museum in Offenbach, near Frankfurt (Frits Scholten, Goud Leer, Zwolle, 1989, number 47 pp. 143 -144).
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