A FRENCH BROWN-PAINTED, FRUITWOOD AND CARVED LIMEWOOD PANEL

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THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF MISS JULIA LOWENTHAL SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND

A FRENCH BROWN-PAINTED, FRUITWOOD AND CARVED LIMEWOOD PANEL

PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH BROWN-PAINTED, FRUITWOOD AND CARVED LIMEWOOD PANEL
PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY
The applied carving depicting a fruiting and flowering urn issuing oak branches and scrolling acanthus hung with swags of fruit, in a later pine border, minor losses, probably previously decorated
35 x 32 in. (89 x 81 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The overdoor overmantel panel, designed in the Louis XVI 'goût Grec' fashion, evokes poetic concepts of 'Peace and Plenty' with myrtle and palm-wreathed sacred vase bedecked with fruit and flower garlands amongst arabesque acanthus scrolls. A related overmantel panel was introduced in the Hôtel Delessert (Hôtel d'Uzès), Paris, designed in the late 1760s by the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (B. Pons, French Period Rooms, 1650 - 1800, Dijon, 1995, p.315).

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