AN EARLY GEORGIAN BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN

IN THE MANNER OF STALKER AND PARKER

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AN EARLY GEORGIAN BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN
In the manner of Stalker and Parker
Decorated to the front and reverse, each leaf with three panels decorated in imitation of Chinese lacquer with Chinoiserie figures in boats, temples, fishing and meditating in a landscape, divided by further panels with vases of flowers, mythological beasts and birds, within a trailing foliate border, divided by stylized rosette cut-cornered angles, restorations and some losses, the hinges rebacked in canvas
Each leaf: 101 in. x 17¾ in. (257 cm. x 45.5 cm.)

Provenance

Reputedly supplied to Sir John Deney Vesey, 2nd Bt. (d.1961) for Abbey Leix, Ireland.
Thence by descent to The Viscounts de Vesci, Abbey Leix, Ireland, sold Mealy's house sale, 25 April 1995 (£8,800).

Lot Essay

John Stalker and George Parker first published their Treatise on Japanning and Varnishing in 1688. It was used as a pattern book, throughout the late 17th Century and early 18th Century while there was continuing interest in lacquered furniture from the Orient.

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