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Lot Essay
Recorded in the Dining Room at Kenwood House, as 'An Empire Fire Screens with movable centre... 2ft. wide 3ft. high', in the 1910 Inventory, Volume 1, p.66, item 543.
This French-fashioned 'cheval screen', with arched 'claws', relates to a pattern in the Grecian or 'antique' manner in George Smith's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (pl. 110). With its ormolu-enriched pillars and pateraed tablets, it relates in particular to manufactures, advertised as 'equal to any made in Paris' and retailed by S. Jamar following his establishment in Wardour Street, Soho, during the second decade of the 19th century (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.35).
The underside is branded with the three Murray mullets which may have been used as an indentifying device for items at Kenwood House, London.
This French-fashioned 'cheval screen', with arched 'claws', relates to a pattern in the Grecian or 'antique' manner in George Smith's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (pl. 110). With its ormolu-enriched pillars and pateraed tablets, it relates in particular to manufactures, advertised as 'equal to any made in Paris' and retailed by S. Jamar following his establishment in Wardour Street, Soho, during the second decade of the 19th century (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.35).
The underside is branded with the three Murray mullets which may have been used as an indentifying device for items at Kenwood House, London.