LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SEVEN DUTCH EMBOSSED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED LEATHER PANELS
Late 17th Century
Each three-sectioned panel decorated with repetitive seascape reserves depicting Neptune on a horse-drawn vessel with a baroque building to the left, a mountainous island with a castle in the background and a ship leaving a harbour, alternating with panels depicting a town and landscape with sheep, each reserve within a scrolled and asymmetrical gilt border with acanthus sprays, grotesque masks and fruiting festoons, the seascapes with a coat-of-arms inscribed 'JACOB E*GIDEUS', the leather panels later backed and framed, variations in size and colour scheme, some panels slightly distressed, minor areas of retouching to decoration, possibly Scandinavian
Variations in size, approx. 207 in. (520 cm.) wide total; approx. 72 in. (185 cm.) high (7)

Provenance

By repute Ericsberg, Sweden

Lot Essay

Ericsberg is first mentioned in the 16th Century when it was acquired by the Gyllenstierna family. The first major rebuilding of the castle was completed in 1687, under the patronage of Christoffer Gyllenstierna.

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