THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A Napoleon III giltwood fire screen, in the Louis XVI style
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A Napoleon III giltwood fire screen, in the Louis XVI style
the oval embroidered silk panel woven in high relief with a nest and an urn flanked by flower filled cornucopiae, putti and foliate scrolls surmounted by a canopy, a beaded and stiff-leaf moulded surround, with a floral cresting formed with a pair of birds touching beaks, on acanthus carved supports and paterae applied and acanthus downscrolled bracket feet -- 23½in. (60cm.) wide
the oval embroidered silk panel woven in high relief with a nest and an urn flanked by flower filled cornucopiae, putti and foliate scrolls surmounted by a canopy, a beaded and stiff-leaf moulded surround, with a floral cresting formed with a pair of birds touching beaks, on acanthus carved supports and paterae applied and acanthus downscrolled bracket feet -- 23½in. (60cm.) wide