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Lot Essay
First developed by medieval printers, the art of printing wall coverings from woodblocks, called dominotierie, in imitation of more expensive wall coverings such as tapestries and silks belonged to the poorer classes of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. Advances in wall paper design and manufacture by Jean Papillon (1661-1723), who developed large scale mural compositions known as papiers de tapisserie, and then Jean-Baptiste Réveillon (1725-1811), appointed Manufacture Royale by Louis XVI, who master-minded their production on an industrial scale, introduced the Golden Age of French wall paper design during the Eighteenth century.
Border panels such as the current lot, which could run both horizontally and vertically, became especially integral to interior designs of the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. Used in this way, their elaborate designs and rich colors were meant to complement, contrast and even surpass the larger panels they framed.
Border panels such as the current lot, which could run both horizontally and vertically, became especially integral to interior designs of the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. Used in this way, their elaborate designs and rich colors were meant to complement, contrast and even surpass the larger panels they framed.