A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT POLE SCREENS
Lot 593

A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT POLE SCREENS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed23 October 2022

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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT POLE SCREENS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with rectangular screen painted in watercolor depicting exotic birds amongst foliage, on tripod ram's monopodia, one lacking finial, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
56 3/4 in. (144 cm.) high, 17 1/4 in. (44 cm.) wide, 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Probably supplied to Henry Brouncker for Boveridge House, Cranborne, Dorset.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 1974, lot 33.

Specialist note

Boveridge House was designed by William Evans of Wimborne in the late 1780s and 1790s for Henry Brouncker, when these pole screens were probably supplied.