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Leather Panel

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

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 plain leather and heightened with gold on a dark-brown ground. The plain leather has been varnished.


Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Interiors
Leather
Object type
Leather panel
Materials and techniques
Embossed and gilded leather
Leather
Embossing
Gilding
Brief description
Embossed gilt leather panel, with a pattern in high relief. The pattern in plain leather and heightened with gold on a dark-brown ground, Jacques Michel Dulud, Paris, ca. 1850
Physical description
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 plain leather and heightened with gold on a dark-brown ground. The plain leather has been varnished.
Dimensions
  • Height: 73cm
  • Width: 107cm
Original measurements: 41 in. x 28 in.
Object history
Acquired at the 'Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855'. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855', pages 67, 80. This pattern has also been produced by the 'Manufacture d'Ornements de Sculpture en Cuirs en relief et en Carton Toile', 10 rue Basse du Rempart, Paris, circa 1840 (library Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, coll. Maciet, no. 223, vol. 3

Identical to museum numbers 3695-1856, 3697-1856, 3697A-1856, W42-1913.
Production
'Cuirs Dulud' workshop, 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. 1 (=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. 9641
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
3728-1856

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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