Gilt leather wall hanging of eight panels and fourteen borders. The borders are placed on either side, down the middle, and on the top. Each panel has a pattern of two broad bands, filled with an artichoke and leaves, in the intermediate spaces are floral scrolls. The panel at the top left is decorated with a painted scene with human figures, Spain, ca. 1500-1600.

Gilt leather wall hanging of eight panels with fourteen borders. The borders are placed on either side, down the middle, and on the top. Each panel has a pattern of two broad bands, one containing four and the other three lozenge shaped compartments with leafy outlines; each compartment is filled with an artichoke and leaves, in the intermediate spaces are floral scrolls. At the top left a painted scene with a man and two women at the door of a chamber, in which is a man lying in bed. Along the top of the whole is a border composed of two depressed arches each enclosing two winged figures bearing a wreath; the spandrels also contain similar figures. Between and on either side of the two panels are vertical borders, each border composed of four groups of three enriched columns surmounted by a crown. The gilded pattern, which has painted outlines, has been punched with several different stamps. Both sides and the top of the hanging have fringing-edges. The top border does not fit with the panel.

The border at the top is identical to the top-borders of one of the Salazar-hangings in the Museo National des Artes Decorativos, Madrid, inventory numbers 541, 16765, 16758, dd. 1686-1706. The panel is identical to the panels in one of the hangings in Palacio de Viana, Cordoba, inventory number unknown.

Purchase price: £30 (Purchase price of £180 for a group of leather panels, covering museum numbers: 821-1898 to 826-1898).
Bought for £30 from Messrs. Chatel and Tassinari of 114-115 Cheapside, London (RF 29849/1898 and 94430/1898)

"Panel of leather, covered with silver foil lacquered to represent gilding, stamped and painted. The pattern consists of two broad bands, one containing four and the other three lozenges-shaped compartments with leafy outlines; each compartment is filled with an artichoke and leaves; in the intermediate spaces are floral scrolls. At the top of the left panel is a scene representing a man and two women at the door of a chamber, in which is a man in bed. Along the top of the whole is a border composed of two depressed arches each enclosing two winged figures bearing a wreath; the spandrels also contain similar figures. Between and on either side of the two panels are vertical borders each composed of four groups of three enriched columns surmounted by a crown. Spanish (Cordova); 16th century."
Rubbed and torn.

823-1898