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Lot 125 Dα

A Parisian Régence fire screen

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.500 € (incl. premium)

A Parisian Régence fire screen

Carved oak and beechwood, petit point embroidery in wool and silk on canvas. The frame resting on two bracket feet and with stylised foliate scrolls in relief and a central shell shaped terminal above. Both sides of the screen decorated with finely embroidered panels depicting scenes from Greek mythology: A centaur battle and Orpheus returning from the underworld. Some older breakages, the embroidery with some minor abraded areas and repairs, the majority of the brown pigment oxidised. H 121, W 81, D 37.5 cm.
Attributed to Paris, first quarter 18th century.

Literature

Cf. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence Raumkunst und Mobiliar, Stuttgart 1929, p. 109, for two similar fire screens, one in the Musée de Cluny in Paris, the other in Anet palace. Cf. Pallot, Le mobilier français du musée Jacquemart-André, Dijon 2006, p. 235, illus. 5 and 6, for two further comparable fire screens.