This kind of lacquer and decoration is very rare. Lacquer panels were extremely sought after during the 18th century in princely collections. This technique of lacquer in relief with mother-of-pearl inlays is much rarer than incised famous Coromandel lacquer. For comparable inlaid lacquer panels with relief design and soapstone inlays see the cabinet in the old castle of The Hermitage in Bayreuth, offered by Frederick the Great to his sister Margravine Wilhelmine. The date of 1739 is inscribed on the relief above the exit door. The clouds Another 'chinoiserie' cabinet is known in the Berlin castles of Queen Sophie Dorothea, the mother of the Margravine Wilhelmine.
A beautiful 12-fold black lacquer screen with mother-of-pearl inlays depicting a hunting scene from the Prince Enrico di Borbone, Count of Bardi is is in the Museo d'Arte Orientale in Venice.
According to the family oral tradition, our screen was offered by King Louis XV of France to Duke Jeronimo Grimaldi (1710-1789), Spanish diplomat and politician, when he was ambassador to Paris. Thence by descent the screen went to his daughter Marie-Thérèse Grimaldi and to his grand-son Marquess Alessandro Pallavicino-Grimaldi.