A VENETIAN GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION FIRESCREEN

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A VENETIAN GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION FIRESCREEN
Late 19th Century
The glazed rectangular plate within a foliate-trailed moulded frame, the pierced cresting carved with interlaced rockwork C-scrolls, flowerheads and acanthus and with waved pediment centred by a foliate spray, on double C-scroll headed and foliate-carved trestle end-supports with scrolled channelled feet trailed with husks, restorations to cresting, adapted from a mid-18th Century picture frame, the later supports stamped PAT
36in. (91.5cm.) wide; 57½in. (146cm.) high; 17in. (43cm.) deep

來源

Probably acquired by John Patrick, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847-1900).

拍品專文

This Venetian frame, with moulded and antique-stippled facia enriched with fretted-cartouche centres and flowered corners, is richly embellished in the picturesque manner with flowered and voluted ribbons wreathed by Roman acanthus; while its serpentined pediment displays the nature-goddess's shell-badge. A related mirror-frame, surmounted by figures etched in the head-glass cartouche, is illustrated in S. Colombo, L'Arte del Mobile in Italia, Milan, 1975, fig. 226.