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A RARE SUITE OF FOUR LOUIS XV SAVONNERIE PANELS

Lot 36
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027482
Lot 36 | A RARE SUITE OF FOUR LOUIS XV SAVONNERIE PANELS
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
A RARE SUITE OF FOUR LOUIS XV SAVONNERIE PANELS

AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANÇOIS DESPORTES, CIRCA 1719-39, THE LOUIS XVI-STYLE SCREEN 19TH CENTURY

Woven in wool and now fitted as a four-panel beechwood screen carved with guilloche motif on casters, each panel set within frames of foliate arabesques against a brown ground, depicting from left to right a parrot and crested egret perched on a trellis with climbing roses and fowl in the foreground, two leopards beneath a pair of parrots, two foxes beneath vines and a toucan, and two monkeys on a fruit bush with rabbits in the foreground, beige silk backing

69 ½ in. (176.5 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide, each panel

74 ¼ in. (188.5 cm.) high; 192 ½ in. (274 cm.) wide; 1 ½ in. (4 cm.) deep, overall





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

C. de Nicolaÿ-Mazery, Visite privée. Hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 24



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

P. Verlet, "Les paravents de Savonnerie pendant la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Etape d'une recherche. Chronologie d'une évolution", L'Information d'histoire de l'art", n.3, May-June 1967, pp.106-118.

P. Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Savonnerie. Its History. The Waddesdon Collection, London, 1982, pp. 330-340 and pp. 466-467, section IV, cat. n.15.

S.M. Bennett and C. Sargentson, French Art of the Eighteenth Century at The Huntington, New Haven and London, 2008, pp. 297-301, cat. 118.

G.Wilson and C. Hess, Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angles, California, 2001, p.145
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