MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY JOHN FOOTMAN,

細節

AN ANGLO-DUTCH GILT AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED LEATHER FIVE-PANEL SCREEN,
mid-18th century, possibly by John Footman,
the tooled leather front decorated with courtly figures set into an extensive garden landscape populated with pagodas, trees, birds and fauna, the border panelled with flower-filled garden urns, the reverse black-painted and decorated with scrolling flowering vines, the black-painted wood frame later, areas of distressed canvas
107½in. (273cm.) high, 21½in. (54.5cm.) wide each panel

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拍品專文

While eighteenth century production of Chinoiserie decorated gilt leather panels is mostly associated with workshops in the North and South Netherlands, a recent article in the Furniture History Journal has pointed out that English craftsmen were also producing high quality leather panels during this time (E. Koldeweij, 'Gilt Leather Hangings in Chinoiserie and Other Styles: An English Speciality', Furniture History Journal, 2000, vol. XXXVI, pp. 61-101). Published correspondence between Dutch patrons and English craftsman, foremost the London gilt leather maker John Rowland (d. 1744) and a number of his apprentices who later established independant workshops to continue the craft in London, demonstrate the degree of cross-channel commission and trade in such decorative panels.