Lot 348
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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND EBONISED PAPIER MACHE POLE SCREENS
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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND EBONISED PAPIER MACHE POLE SCREENS

BY JENNENS & BETTRIDGE

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND EBONISED PAPIER MACHE POLE SCREENS
By Jennens & Bettridge
Each with later metal turned shaft and baluster turned base decorated overall with scrolling foliage, with reeded and ring-turned stem, on a turned base with ring-turned feet, with shaped banner decorated with scrolling foliage and centred by a floral spray with mother-of-pearl flowers, the underside stamped 'JENNENS & BETTRIDGE LONDON', one later banner with painted flowers, adapted as lamps, with cream shades
59¼ in. (150.5 cm.) high (2)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Jennens & Bettridge's firm is first recorded in 1815, when it took over the works of Henry Clay's successors in Birmingham. Jennens & Bettridge were famous for maintaining the highest standards of decoration by hiring painters from the Birmingham and London schools of design to teach their own artists to draw. This pair of screens is a very fine example of the firms celebrated 'natural' flower painting framed by light decorative gold borders. This mode of design was introduced into the company in 1832 by one of their own artists, Elvin Haselar.

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