Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TWO-FOLD FIRESCREEN
Lot 137

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TWO-FOLD FIRESCREEN

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755

Closed16 December 2010

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TWO-FOLD FIRESCREEN
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1755
Each fold inset with a Chinoiserie embossed leather panel, with cream silk to the reverse, above an open fret-carved section on slender spindle supports
Each panel - 45¼ in. (115 cm.) high; 19 in. (48 cm.) wide

Acquired by Sir Sydney Barratt for Summerhill, Staffordshire and later installed at Crowe Hall, Bath, 1961 and by descent.

Specialist note

This 'Chinoiserie' fret screen closely recalls the folding fire screen framing hand-painted Chinese pictures from Wolverley House, which C. Gilbert attributes to Thomas Chippendale in The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 183, fig. 332).
Chippendale also supplied to Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt., on 28 October 1763, '2 very Neat Mahogany folding Firescreens cover'd wt fine India pictures [Chinese paintings] & Cutt fretts at Bothom a case and packing' at a total cost of 5-18s-0d (ibid., vol. I, p. 160).