THE PROPERTY OF MICHAEL TREE, ESQ.
A DUTCH GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED FOUR-LEAF LEATHER SCREEN
LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
A DUTCH GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED FOUR-LEAF LEATHER SCREEN
Late 18th/19th Century
With a central river landscape scene with birds and butterflies, surrounded by a trailing foliate border, each leaf with a foliate embossed gold leather-studded border, on a later canvas base painted to simulate black marble, restorations to the decoration, distressed
Each leaf 89in. x 21½in. (226cm. x 54.5cm.)
Late 18th/19th Century
With a central river landscape scene with birds and butterflies, surrounded by a trailing foliate border, each leaf with a foliate embossed gold leather-studded border, on a later canvas base painted to simulate black marble, restorations to the decoration, distressed
Each leaf 89in. x 21½in. (226cm. x 54.5cm.)
Provenance
Ethel, Countess Beatty (d. 1932)
Thence by descent
Thence by descent