A SET OF EIGHT LOUIS XV SAVONNERIE SCREEN PANELS circa 1734-1738 Now fitted as a pair of four-panel screens with close-nailed faded crimson velour backing and bases, each panel depicting reserves of owls, parakeets and birds-of-prey amidst rushes, flowering bushes, each foreground with game birds or dead game amidst flowering trees with a blue sky beyond, on a brown outer ground, five set within frames of foliate arabesques, three set within flowering arbors of rose bushes, the scene depicting a spread-wing parrot repeated twice and the scene of the blue parrot perched in front of an arabesque-decorated panel repeated twice, the ends with velour carrying handles, reframed Each panel (pile only): 53½in. (136cm.) x 24¾in. ((63cm.) Each panel overall: 57in. (145cm.) x 25½in. (65cm.) (2)
A SET OF EIGHT LOUIS XV SAVONNERIE SCREEN PANELS circa 1734-1738 Now fitted as a pair of four-panel screens with close-nailed faded crimson velour backing and bases, each panel depicting reserves of owls, parakeets and birds-of-prey amidst rushes, flowering bushes, each foreground with game birds or dead game amidst flowering trees with a blue sky beyond, on a brown outer ground, five set within frames of foliate arabesques, three set within flowering arbors of rose bushes, the scene depicting a spread-wing parrot repeated twice and the scene of the blue parrot perched in front of an arabesque-decorated panel repeated twice, the ends with velour carrying handles, reframed Each panel (pile only): 53½in. (136cm.) x 24¾in. ((63cm.) Each panel overall: 57in. (145cm.) x 25½in. (65cm.) (2)
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