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A DUTCH POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND EMBOSSED-GOLD LEATHER FOUR-LEAF SCREEN
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A DUTCH POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND EMBOSSED-GOLD LEATHER FOUR-LEAF SCREEN

LATE 18TH FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A DUTCH POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND EMBOSSED-GOLD LEATHER FOUR-LEAF SCREEN
LATE 18TH FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Embossed with flowers and fruit
Each leaf - 72 x 21 in. (183 x 52 cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

This golden flower-embossed screen is likely to have been acquired in the 1840s by Colonel Robert Myddelton Biddulph's and served in the Red Drawing Room to conceal the Saloon door.It appears in this position, near the hearth, in an 1862 watercolour of the room executed by the Hon. Mrs Mary Wombwell (from an album retained by the Myddelton family).

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