Lot 228
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A large panel of wallpaper consisting of five compartments of "trompe l'oeil" design simulating fabric, the background applied with russet flock, the fabric with a swag hanging from a cherubic face at each corner surmounted by a gilt wreath, gathered at the bottom with cord and a further gilt wreath--106 x 96in. (264 x 242cm.), circa 1825-6, French, Dufour & Leroy
A large panel of wallpaper consisting of five compartments of "trompe l'oeil" design simulating fabric, the background applied with russet flock, the fabric with a swag hanging from a cherubic face at each corner surmounted by a gilt wreath, gathered at the bottom with cord and a further gilt wreath--106 x 96in. (264 x 242cm.), circa 1825-6, French, Dufour & Leroy

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A large panel of wallpaper consisting of five compartments of "trompe l'oeil" design simulating fabric, the background applied with russet flock, the fabric with a swag hanging from a cherubic face at each corner surmounted by a gilt wreath, gathered at the bottom with cord and a further gilt wreath--106 x 96in. (264 x 242cm.), circa 1825-6, French, Dufour & Leroy
Literature
See pps. 66, 68-69, "The Papered Wall, History . Pattern . Technique", edited by Lesley Hoskins, London, 1994, for the same pattern against a black ground and a watercolour of a drawing room at Nice, circa 1830, which appears to use this wallpaper with a red ground.

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