A SET OF SEVEN CHINESE EXPORT AND CARTON PIERRE FRAMED WALLPAPER PANELS

Lot 620
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Lot 620 | A SET OF SEVEN CHINESE EXPORT AND CARTON PIERRE FRAMED WALLPAPER PANELS
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
A SET OF SEVEN CHINESE EXPORT AND CARTON PIERRE FRAMED WALLPAPER PANELS

THE FRAMES BY BROMWICH AND LEIGH, CIRCA 1764

Each depicting figures at various pursuits within pavilions, within their original carton-pierre C-scroll and gadrooned frames, the larger with pencil inscription No. 16 to the reverse and with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory labels

21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm.) high, 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) wide, the four

22 in. (81.3 cm.) high, 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm.) wide, the larger of the pair

24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm.) high, 30 1/4 in. (76.8 cm.) wide, the largest







Provenance

Supplied by Bromwich and Leigh in 1764 to Edward, 5th Lord Leigh (d. 1786) for Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, for Miss Leigh's Bedchamber, the bill dated 10 December 1765, and thence by descent.

Nine panels sold Property of the Trustees of the Stoneleigh Settlement, the Executors of the late 4th Lord Leigh and the Stoneleigh Abbey Preservation Trust Ltd.; Christie's house sale, October 15-16, 1981, lot 67.

‌With Mallett, Ltd., London.

‌Acquired from Jeremy, Ltd., London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1994.





Literature

Thomas Bromwich's bill in the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, invoice [DR 18/5/4402], dated 10 December 1765.

W.A. Thorpe, 'Stoneleigh Abbey and its Furniture - II', Connoisseur, March 1947, p. 19.

C. Aslet, 'Stoneleigh Abbey - Warwickshire II', Country Life, 20 December 1984, p. 1935.

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