Folding screen
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, later painted, backed with buckram, on a wooden frame, with brass handles
Measurements
183.5 x 174 x 2.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127785.1
Summary
A folding screen, one of a pair of four-leaf folding screens, each lined with late 17th/early 18th century embossed gilt leather (probably Dutch) on a later wooden frame, with later painted decoration, the later paint in cream. The leather embossed with a design of fruit, foliage, birds and cherubs. The leather attached by round-headed nails and lined with buckram to the reverse. With brass handles. The leather probably originally used as wall hangings.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.