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Leather Panel

1650-1670 (made)
Artist/Maker
Heuvel, Martinus Van Den (The Younger) (manufacturers)
Place of origin
Amsterdam (made)

Embossed gilt leather panel with three human figures between foliage and two quarters of a feston. The embossed pattern consists of swags of scrolling foliage, tulips, roses, sunflowers and other flowers, grapes, pomegranates, berries, melons, pears, plums and other fruit, amid which are Bacchus, Ceres and another human figure, and a bird pecking fruit above his head. Painted on a chestnut ground. The pattern is called the' Bacchus & Ceres' plate.

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 three human figures between foliage and two quarters of a feston. Painted on a chestnut ground. The pattern is called the' Bacchus & Ceres' plate, Martinus van den Heuvel (the younger), Amsterdam, ca. 1650-1670.
Physical description
Embossed gilt leather panel with three human figures between foliage and two quarters of a feston. The embossed pattern consists of swags of scrolling foliage, tulips, roses, sunflowers and other flowers, grapes, pomegranates, berries, melons, pears, plums and other fruit, amid which are Bacchus, Ceres and another human figure, and a bird pecking fruit above his head. Painted on a chestnut ground. The pattern is called the' Bacchus & Ceres' plate.
Dimensions
  • Height: 83cm
  • Width: 66.5cm
  • Silver foil, approx. height: 11.5cm
  • Silver foil, approx. height: 11.5cm
Original measurements: H. 2 ft. 9 in. W. 2 ft. 2 1/4 in.
Marks and inscriptions
  • '40 Skins, price £ 25.-.-' (On label on the back of the panel.)
  • 'B.I.' [or 'R'?] (On the back of the bottom-right corner initials in the chestnut-brown paint.)
Credit line
Given by Murray Marks
Object history
Identical panels: V&A, museum numbers 478-1869 and W67-1911; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, inventory number 6862; Deutsches Tapetenmuseum, Kassel, inventory number 88/88; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inventory numbers RBK 18249; wall hanging in the castle of Humbeek (Belgium); V&A, museum number W69-1911 and W38-1974 (from Dyrham Park) Goudleer-Kinkarakawa, catalogue numbers 74 and 75; Ledertapeten, no. 4. Another version of the panel from Dyrham Park is illustrated in Jean-Pierre Fournet, Cuirs Dorées, "Cuirs de Courdoue", un art Européen (Château de Saint-Remy-en-l'Eau: 2019), p. 199, fig. 291.
Bibliographic references
  • J.F. Riano, Catalogue of the art and objects of Spanish production in the South Kensington Museum, London 1872, page 61
  • E. Koldeweij, 'The marketing of gilt leather in seventeenth-century Holland', Print Quarterly, XIII, 1996 no. 2, 136-148, fig. 93. & footnote 10.
  • South Kensington Museum, John Charles Robinson, J. C Robinson, and R. Clay, Sons and Taylor. 1881. Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Spanish and Portuguese Ornamental Art: South Kensington Museum, 1881. London: Chapman & Hall, p.186
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
478-1869

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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