These Gobelin panels of bracket-supported flower-sprays on a white ground within flower-festooned foliate cartouches and rose-pink borders relate to a pattern described as 'Jets de fleurs colories avec bordures d'ornemens, entrelassees de petites fleurs' designed by Maurice Jacques (d. 1784) in 1757 - 9 (see: E. Standen, Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. I, no. 58. A related 'horse fire screen' with Gobelins tapestry panel was manufactured by Messrs Gillow of London and Lancaster for John Christian in 1788 (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, no. V/4).

These screens, originally decorated in white and gold in the French taste, are designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner. Their acanthus-flowered and arched crests between flowered tablets relate to a cornice pattern published by A. Hepplewhite & Co. The Cabinet-Maker's and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 107. The ornament and quality of their carving relates very closely to that of a pier table at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, carved in 1782 by Sefferin Nelson (d. circa 1796), carver and frame-maker to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (see: I. Hall, 'A neoclassical episode at Chatsworth', Burlington, June 1980, p. 50), and it is very likely that he was also responsible for these screens