Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Coromandel lacquer panels, metal hinges
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246183
Summary
Two fragments of a larger Coromandel lacquer screen, probably 18th century, but reduced in size. The Coromandel lacquer Chinese. With incised polychrome figures in a townscape within floral borders against a black ground.
Provenance
The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. These items found on the record for Polesden Lacey Mrs Greville's Bedroom and Sitting Room, page 44 and 49. On loan to Dyrham until March 2000.