WOODWORK WITH ARABESQUE PANELS

France, Louis XVI period, circa 1780.

Executed after the models by Jean-Louis Prieur, known as the Elder (Paris, circa 1725 – after 1785, “sculptor of adornments, modeller and chiseller”)

Carved and painted wood.

H. 316 cm. (124 ½ in.).

PROVENANCE: private collection.

LITERATURE REFERENCE: Alastair Laing & Martin Meade, Drawings for Architecture, Design and Ornament, volume II, The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor, Cambridge, The National Trust, 2006, p. 424-464.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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