Painted leather wallcovering
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
c. 1700 - c. 1724
Materials
Painted leather
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1211037
Summary
Embossed and painted leather hangings, probably Flemish, first quarter eighteenth century, decorated in the Régence style with bandwork, flowers, acanthus, husks and cornucopias in gold and other colours against a light blue ground.
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, fig. 245, p. 177.
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.