Pair of gilt leather panels with an embossed cinque-cento diaper pattern in intersecting circles with scrolling foliage. The pattern in gold on a blue and blue-green ground, Jacques Michel Dulud, Paris, ca. 1850.

Gilt leather panels with an embossed pattern of scrolling foliage. The foliage is gilded on a brown ground. On the places with the highest embossment there is in the back a filling of wood-pulp.

Acquired at the 'Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855'. See: ‘Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855', pages 67, 80. Bought in a lot of six panels for £3 9s 7d (V&A Museum nos. 3709-1856 to 3714-1856).

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

A wall hanging of this identical pattern is hanging in the dining room of Muncaster castle (Cumbria), and a can also be found on a four-folded screen in the Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach am Main (Germany).

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into the methods and materials used for gilt leather manufacture from the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum (unpublished report, c.1996, held by the FTF Dept.), item 24
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.

'Cuirs Dulud' workshop, 14 rue Vivienne, Paris.

3715:1, 2-1856