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Lot Essay
A single Savonnerie panel of this pattern, now mounted on a firescreen, at Waddesdon Manor, is discussed by Pierre Verlet (P. Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, The Savonnerie, Fribourg, 1982, pp. 325-329, no. 14).
The eight different patterns for Savonnerie screens are listed, Verlet, op.cit., pp. 299-300. This screen was the first pattern woven at the Savonnerie and was probably designed by Blain de Fontenay whose name is mentioned in three separate references to this pattern.
The panels were made in the Chaillot workshops of the Savonnerie from 1703. Dupont delivered seventy-eight leaves for screens of this pattern in 1707 and a further eighteen in 1709, under the provisional numbers 2011 and 2049 respectively. Each leaf cost 101 livres at the rate of 180 livres per aune. Between 1709 and 1711 the upholsterers of the Garde-Meuble made them up into eight screens each with six double-sided leaves under the numbers 2042, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2061, 2062, 2063 and 2064. The last four of these were delivered by the upholsterer Lallier on 26 October 1711 pour servir dans le Salon de Marly. The description for 2042 delivered by Lallier to the Garde Meuble on 30 January 1709 is as follows:
No 2042. - Un paravent de six feuilles couvertes des deux côtés d'ouvrage de laine de la Savonnerie et garnies de galon d'or cloué; chaque feuille representant au milieu une roze à la mosaique sur fond blanc, en bas un panier de fruits accompagnè de deux ecureuils, au dessus deux guirlandes de fleurs et fruits au naturel, au haut un panier de fleurs, un perroquet et deux guirlandes de fleurs, le tout sur fonds bleu enfermé d'un listel jaune sur lequel liste sont posés deux perroquets verts sur fond pourpre qui regne autour. Le paravent haut de 4 pieds un pouce. Pour faire ce paravent, j'ay delivré du Garde Meuble de la Couronne 12 feuilles en six morceaux d'ouvrage de la Savonnerie faisant partie du no 2011, à décharger.
A five-leaf single-sided screen of this model, with later frame, was sold from the Pereire sale, Paris, 14-15 February 1937, lot 333, and subsequently re-sold 4 June 1937, lot 91 (illustrated). Another, with four leaves, was sold Ader, Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 6 December 1977, lot 197 (illustrated). A further two-leaf screen of this model is at Vaux-le-Vicomte.
The eight different patterns for Savonnerie screens are listed, Verlet, op.cit., pp. 299-300. This screen was the first pattern woven at the Savonnerie and was probably designed by Blain de Fontenay whose name is mentioned in three separate references to this pattern.
The panels were made in the Chaillot workshops of the Savonnerie from 1703. Dupont delivered seventy-eight leaves for screens of this pattern in 1707 and a further eighteen in 1709, under the provisional numbers 2011 and 2049 respectively. Each leaf cost 101 livres at the rate of 180 livres per aune. Between 1709 and 1711 the upholsterers of the Garde-Meuble made them up into eight screens each with six double-sided leaves under the numbers 2042, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2061, 2062, 2063 and 2064. The last four of these were delivered by the upholsterer Lallier on 26 October 1711 pour servir dans le Salon de Marly. The description for 2042 delivered by Lallier to the Garde Meuble on 30 January 1709 is as follows:
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A five-leaf single-sided screen of this model, with later frame, was sold from the Pereire sale, Paris, 14-15 February 1937, lot 333, and subsequently re-sold 4 June 1937, lot 91 (illustrated). Another, with four leaves, was sold Ader, Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 6 December 1977, lot 197 (illustrated). A further two-leaf screen of this model is at Vaux-le-Vicomte.