Embossed leather panel, 'Louis XIV' diaper pattern with flowers, painted in brown, red, blue and green with gold, Jacques Michel Dulud, Paris, ca. 1850

Embossed leather panel, with a symmetrical 'Louis XIV'-design of scroll diaper pattern with flowers. Painted with a dark-brown, red, light-blue, and green-glaze ground, heightened with gold, and the flowers in various colours.

Acquired at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855, pages 67, 80. Identical to V&A Museum nos. 3707-1856, 3709-1856, 3710-1856.

Purchased for 12 shillings.

The metal of this panel has been analysed as part of the gilt leather cataloguing project in 1996 (Eloy Koldeweij, October 1996).

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into the methods and materials used for gilt leather manufacture from the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum (unpublished report, c.1996, held by the FTF Dept.), item 23
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.

3708-1856