Screen panel
Category
Furniture
Date
c. 1660 - c. 1670
Materials
Painted and gilded paper, mounted on wooden frames, panels currently individually mounted in ebonised and glazed wooden frames.
Measurements
249 x 85 x 6 cm
Place of origin
Mexico City
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139576.8
Summary
Single panel from a pair of folding screens, covered with painted, embossed and gilded paper, probably Mexican, perhaps 1660s. Decorated with an embossed and gilded arch at the top, containing a roundel with a vase of flowers painted in colours, with embossed and gilded clouds at the bottom, and with part of a landscape painted in colours in the centre, in a style reminiscent of Japanese painting, with two large trees at the top, figures hunting with falcons and elegant company seated, standing and on horseback, edged at the top and bottom with a red border decorated with floral and foliage motifs, in a plain ebonised frame, glazed.
Full description
References: Emile de Bruijn, Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland, London, Philip Wilson Publishers in association with the National Trust, 2023, pp. 29-32 (fig. 11), and see further references listed there.
Provenance
Probably acquired by the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale in the 1670s-80s, and thence by descent; acquired by HM Government, 1948, and transferred to the Victoria and Albert Museum; transferred to the National Trust, 2002.