Painted leather wallcovering
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
c. 1730 - c. 1740
Materials
Painted leather
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1209654
Summary
Embossed and painted leather hangings, probably Flemish, c. 1730-40, decorated in the Régence style with sinuous bandwork in gold embellished with stylised rosettes, husks and foliage, against a blue ground with naturalistic sprays of flowers.
Full description
For comparable Flemish leather hangings see Jean-Pierre Fournet, Cuirs dorés, ‘cuirs de Cordue’: un art Européen, Sain-Rémy-en-l’Eeau, Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2019, figs. 247a, 247b and 248-250, p. 178. The hangings were repainted in the early 1850s by Matilda Paston-Bedingfeld (1828-1905), and she added the inscription 'MC Bedingfeld leather pinxit 18' (third flight of the West Staircase).
Provenance
Acquired by Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 6th Bt (1800-62), 1830s; donated to the National Trust (along with the house) by Sybil, dowager Lady Paston-Bedingfeld (1883-1985), with help from the Dulverton and Pilgrim Trusts, 1952.