Not currently on display at the V&A

Leather Panel

ca. 1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dulud, Jacques Michel (designer and maker)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Embossed leather panel, with a symmetrical 'Louis XIV'-design of scroll diaper pattern with flowers. Plain leather, partly with a green and dark-green ground, and heightened with gold.


Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Interiors
Leather
Object type
Leather panel
Materials and techniques
Embossed and gilded leather
Leather
Embossing
Gilding
Brief description
Embossed leather panel, 'Louis XIV' scroll diaper with flowers, plain leather with partly green ground, heightened with gold, Jacques Michel Dulud, Paris, ca. 1850
Physical description
Embossed leather panel, with a symmetrical 'Louis XIV'-design of scroll diaper pattern with flowers. Plain leather, partly with a green and dark-green ground, and heightened with gold.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.5cm
  • Width: 54cm
Object history
Bought in a lot of six panels (museum numbers 3709 to 3714-1856) for £3 9 shillings 7 pence. Acquired at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855', pages 67, 80.

Formerly in the Animal Products Division

Identical to museum nos. 3707-1856, 3708-1856 and 3710-1856.

This design of stamped leather, in a different colourway, is illustrated in Jean-Pierre Fournet, Cuirs Dorées, "Cuirs de Courdoue", un art Européen (Château de Saint-Remy-en-l'Eau: Editions Monelle Hayot, 2019), pp. 294-295.
Production
Made at the 'Cuirs Dulud' workshop, 14 rue Vivienne, Paris.
Other numbers
  • AP.603 - Current object number
  • 3709-1856 - Previous number
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
3709-1856

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O320991/leather-panel-dulud-jacques-michel/
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