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A Gobelins tapestry and carved giltwood firescreen, the late Louis XV tapestry signed by Jacques Neilson and dated 1770, the giltwood frame in Louis XV style
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- total height 133cm.; 4ft. 4¼in. total width 75cm.; 2ft. 5½in.
with a child feeding chickens, in floral surround within damas cramoisi border, signed lower right Neilson 1770
Provenance
Probably acquired by Sir William Fowle Middleton, 2nd Bt., for Shrubland Park, Suffolk circa 1830
Thence by descent
Literature
Inventory, Shrubland Park, 1860 (Vols. 1 & 2), p. 42, the Drawing Room, possibly the one described as `Four feet firescreen in ornamental gilt frame white satin shield with wreath of wrought leaves in the centre'.
Sotheby's Inventory, Shrubland Park, 1958, p. 15, The Drawing Room: 200.0.0
Catalogue Note
Comparative Literature:
Heinrich Göbel - Wandteppiche, Leipzig, 1928, Part II, Vol.II, abb.197, for an identical panel by Neilson from the Rudolph Kann Collection.
Jacques Nielson (d. 1788), Parisian tapestry weaver and contractor for the low warp workshops of the Gobelins between 1749-1788.