Description:

A PROVINCIAL LOUIS XVI SIX-LEAF PAINTED SCREEN
Last quarter 18th century

Each leaf with an arched top and lined with hessian painted with Classical cartouches on a diaper pattern ground
164cm high, 325cm wide (approximately, fully extended)

PROVENANCE:
The selected contents of Highbury, Toorak
John D Dunn Antiques, Melbourne

  • Condition: In reasonably good condition, with various faults consistent with age, use, and the nature of the object.

    The most pronounced wear is around the vertical edges of the leaves where these meet, variously with wear and discolouration to the paint, pulls in the fabric around nails, and some splits in the fabric along the folds between leaves and along the line of edges of the wooden frames beneath, etc. Elsewhere, there are other areas of wear to the paint, including small areas where it is worn thin and revealing the weave of the fabric, together with small scrapes and flake losses to the paint surface and general surface dirt and discolouration.

    There are minor variations in the colour and handling of the paint, suggesting the possibility of this having been retouched at times (although, given the rustic folk art nature of the object, these variations might be original).

    The reverse of the screen is simply the undecorated reverse of the hessian and its oak and pine frame, to which there are scattered old woodworm holes. (In preparing this report it has not been possible to fully inspect the reverse of the screen as it is presently hung for pre-auction viewing.)


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