Leather Panel
ca. 1855 (made)
Embossed gilt leather panel, with a symmetrical Louis XIV pattern which consists of lattice-work, a shell, floral decoration and two birds eating berries. The gilded pattern on a blue, dark-green and brown ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | embossed and gilded leather |
| Brief description | Rectangular, stamped with a design in Louis XIV style, centreing on a shaped panel, enclosing a trellised plinth supporting a fan shape, flanked by two birds, the spandrels outside the panel with motifs of formal foliage, all decorated in polychrome and varnished silver foil. French c.1855. Part of a series (with 3692 to4-1856) showing stages in the production of such panels |
| Physical description | Embossed gilt leather panel, with a symmetrical Louis XIV pattern which consists of lattice-work, a shell, floral decoration and two birds eating berries. The gilded pattern on a blue, dark-green and brown ground. |
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| Object history | Bought in a lot of three panels (no's 3729-3731-1856). Acquired at the 'Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855'. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855', pages 67, 80. Transferred to Animal Products Division and renumbered AP.612. 68/1871: Transferred to MOLC, 16/01/1969. |
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| Accession number | 3729-1856 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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