A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FOUR-PANEL SCREEN

CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FOUR-PANEL SCREEN
Circa 1780
Each rectangular panel with a guilloche and leaf-tip-carved surround, the corners with acanthus leaves inset with 18th century silk and glass beadwork embroidery depicting flowers and birds, the back with pink silk, with raising firescreens
Each panel 38in. (70cm.) high, 25in. (63.5cm.) wide

Exhibited

Paris, 'La Folie d'Artois', Exhibition Catalogue, June 1988, pp.168-9 (illustrated in situ in the salon de billard by Didier Aaron).

Lot Essay

A firescreen with closely related glass bead embroidery in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is illustrated in a translation of the Art of the Embroiderer by Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, 1770, Los Angeles County Museum, 1983, p.112.
One from a pair of fauteuils with very similar carving by Sulpice Brizard is illustrated in B.G.B. Pallot, L'Art du sige au XVIIIe sicle en France, Paris, 1987, p. 213.

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