A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TWO-FOLD FIRESCREEN
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TWO-FOLD FIRESCREEN

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TWO-FOLD FIRESCREEN
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755
Each panel inset with a Chinese watercolour of birds and flowers, the reverse with Chinese figures in landscapes, above fret carved panels on slender turned supports and stretchers
44 in. (112 cm.) high; 38 in. (97 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This 'Chinoiserie' fret screen closely recalls the folding fire screen framing hand-painted Chinese pictures from Wolverley House, which Christopher Gilbert attributes to Thomas Chippendale in The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 183, fig. 332.
Chippendale also supplied to Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt., on 28 October 1763, '2 very Neat Mahogany folding Firescreens cover'd wt fine India pictures [Chinese paintings] & Cutt fretts at Bothom a case and packing' at a total cost of £5-18s-0d (ibid., vol. I, p. 160).

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