Details
A DUTCH POLYCHROME-PAINTED LEATHER SIX-LEAF SCREEN
18th Century
Decorated with exotic birds and foliage in a border of entwined scrolling foliage, one leaf with holes
Each leaf 96in. x 22 in. (244cm. x 56cm.)
Provenance
Possibly supplied to Charles, 5th Duke of Bolton (d.1765) for Hackwood.
Certainly William, 4th Baron Bolton (1845-1922) by 1905
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954)
Thence by descent
Literature
Possibly the '6 leaf Gilt Leather Screen' listed in the Dining Parlour in 1765, annotated 'Good' in 1795.
Hampton and Sons Inventory, 1905, The Dining Room: 'A six fold antiques screen with fine old illuminated leather panels 8ft. high'.
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.
