A PORTUGESE COLONIAL RED AND GILT-PAINTED SIX-LEAF SCREEN, each leaf decorated overall with foliate scrolls and stylised flowerheads and with three cartouches variously painted with figures of ladies and gentlemen and hunters in landscapes and domestic scenes within olive green borders carved with foliate scrolls and flowerheads, the reverse later painted with birds and butterflies amidst flowering shrubs, areas of restorations, some re-painting, c. 1730, the gilt mounts later | Christie's

Lot 208

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A PORTUGESE COLONIAL RED AND GILT-PAINTED SIX-LEAF SCREEN, each leaf decorated overall with foliate scrolls and stylised flowerheads and with three cartouches variously painted with figures of ladies and gentlemen and hunters in landscapes and domestic scenes within olive green borders carved with foliate scrolls and flowerheads, the reverse later painted with birds and butterflies amidst flowering shrubs, areas of restorations, some re-painting, c. 1730, the gilt mounts later

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A PORTUGESE COLONIAL RED AND GILT-PAINTED SIX-LEAF SCREEN, each leaf decorated overall with foliate scrolls and stylised flowerheads and with three cartouches variously painted with figures of ladies and gentlemen and hunters in landscapes and domestic scenes within olive green borders carved with foliate scrolls and flowerheads, the reverse later painted with birds and butterflies amidst flowering shrubs, areas of restorations, some re-painting, c. 1730, the gilt mounts later
each leaf 76in. x 21¾in. (193cm. x 55½in.)

Lot Essay

A very similar six-leaf screen probably from the same workshop, almost exactly this size but with arched cresting, was sold in these Rooms April 19, 1990, lot 154.

The seated figure in the central far right cartouche is wearing either the Portugese Order of Christ or the Portugese Order of St. James of the Sword.

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