Lot Essay
A related screen in the Victoria & Albert Museum is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, Sixth Impression 1964, p.436, fig.9.
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A DUTCH GILT LEATHER DECORATED SIX-LEAF SCREEN, each leaf painted in the manner of Nicholas Lancret with courting couples, rural scenes, birds and exotic animals in extensive landscape settings, restorations, rebacked and remounted, late 18th Century/early 19th Century
each leaf 96½ x 21¾in. (245 x 55cm.)
each leaf 96½ x 21¾in. (245 x 55cm.)