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Panel

ca. 1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Embossed gilt leather panel, with an Arabic diaper pattern in intersecting circles. Unpainted.
On the back 'No.8' in a brown paint.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Leather Panel
  • Leather Panel
Materials and techniques
Embossed and gilded leather
Brief description
Pair of embossed gilt leather panels, with an Arabic diaper pattern in intersecting circles. Unpainted.
Physical description
Embossed gilt leather panel, with an Arabic diaper pattern in intersecting circles. Unpainted.
On the back 'No.8' in a brown paint.
Dimensions
  • 3727 1856 height: 59.5cm
  • 3727 1856 width: 47cm
  • 3727 a 1856 height: 57.5cm
  • 3727 a 1856 width: 45cm
Original measurements: 46 in. x 18 1/2 in.
Object history
Acquired at the 'Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855'. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855', pages 67, 80.

Identical to V&A Museum no's 3724-1856, 3724a-1856; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, temp.inv.no. 14; and a wall hanging in the country house Hospitalfield, Arbroath (Scotland).
Production
'Cuirs Dulud', 14 rue Vivienne, Paris.
Bibliographic references
  • Cuirs Dulud, dits cuirs en relief pour meubles & tentures. Album contenant le principaux dessins et diverses notions relatives a leur emploi, Paris 1857, no. 8 (=article by Ch. Aride, 'Des cuirs en relief', L'art au XIXe siècle, 01/11/1857)
  • J.C. Robinson (ed.), Inventory of objects in the collections of the museum of ornamental art at the South Kensington Museum, London 1860, page 114, no. 9640
Collection
Accession number
3727&A-1856

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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