Beschreibung:

A SET OF LOUIS XVI POLYCHROME AND GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT BOISERIES Possibly designed by Jean-Demosthène Dugourc, together with further additional panelling to match executed by Pierre Delbée of Maison Jansen, Paris, circa 1965 Comprising:- A set of four Louis XVI arabesque panels, carved overall in relief with scrolling foliate arabesques, each with later plain outer slip and stiff-leaf carved border framing interlaced foliate arabesques hung with ribbon-tied flowers and with a vase of flowers to the top, standing on an octagonal panel painted with classical nymphs and the Goddess Diana, the lower circular medallions painted with further classical figures, the whole issuing from a fruiting basket standing on a lambrequinned plinth, raised on a later skirting element by Pierre Delbée of Maison Jansen, Paris, circa 1965 Each - 125½in. high; Two - 20¼in. (51.5cm.) wide approx.; the other two - 20½in. (52cm.) wide approx. Together with a set of eight Louis XVI grey-painted and parcel-gilt Ionic fluted pilaster strips with berried finial capital and upspringing chandelles , raised on later stepped spreading plinths by Jansen, all applied on later backboards by Jansen of varying widths Each pilaster - 125½in. (318.5cm.) high overall; Six mounted on backboard panels - 19¾in. (50cm.) wide approx.; one - 23in. (58.5cm) wide approx.; the last - 18½in. (47cm.) wide approx. Together with two pairs of Louis XVI polychrome-decorated double doors, probably from a different boiserie scheme and rebacked and reframed by Jansen to form two pairs of double doors, each door of tri-panelled form, the largest rectangular top panel painted with foliate arabesques and fruiting flowers supporting a circular gilt medallion painted with a classical figure, the central panel with laurel-wreath tied cornucopiae, the bottom panels with arabesques surmounted by a plumed mask, all within a gold-painted simulated acanthus borders, the reverses almost certainly designed by Pierre Delbée of Maison Jansen circa 1965, decorated in white and parcel-gilt with plain tripartite panels with beaded frames and block rosette corners, each with steel locking-style and foliate cast ormolu escutcheons and handles, two doors with varnished surface and refreshments to decoration, together with later mitred architraves by Jansen with hinges attached Each pair of doors - 114in. (289.5cm.) high; 53in. (135cm.) wide overall, approx. Together with further elements of infill panelling executed by Pierre Delbée of Maison Jansen, circa 1965, decorated in grey and parcel-gilt, including nine tall 2-panelled sections with moulded skirting, one with attached foliate and acorn border (125 by 10in, approx. (318.5cm by 25.5cm.) approx; a further three-panelled section 114 by 9½in. (289.5 by 24cm.); fourteen plain grey-painted sections; three egg-and-dart and pearled upright sections for a window-frame with one mitred end; two plain moulded parcel-gilt uprights for a window-frame with one mitred end; and eleven further grey-painted and parcel-gilt moulded sections All with stencilled positioning numbers and letters for assembly, as well as a stencilled GALERIE , with various other pencil and chalk inscriptions, the metal bolts stamped 'FV'