Embossed gilt leather panel, high relief scrolling foliage with fruit, flowers and swallows, gold heightened with green and blue glazes on brown ground, Jacques Michel Dulud, Paris, ca. 1850

Embossed gilt leather panel, with a pattern in high relief of scrolling foliage with fruit and flowers, on which some swallows are perched. The pattern in gold and heightened with green and blue glazes on a brown ground. The high relief on the back is filled with woodpulp.

Acquired at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855, pages 67, 80. Identical to 3695-1856, 3697-1856, 3728-1856 and W.42-1913.

Purchased for 8 shillings 5 pence.

See also: A Technical investigation into the methods and materials used for gilt leather manufacture from the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum (unpublished report, c.1996, held by the FTF Dept.), item 22
Report prepared by Christopher Calnan, Adviser on Conservation of Organic Materials at the National Trust, London.
Examination of decorative surface carried out by Catherine Hassell, University College, London
Examination of vegetable tannins carried out by Jan Wouters, KIK, Brussels.

Transferred 01/09/1965 from Bethnal Green Department to the Woodwork Department (RP 65/2340).

Made at the 'Cuirs Dulud' workshop, 14 rue Vivienne, Paris.

3697&A-1856