A Baroque painted leather eight-panel screen in the style of Marmaduke Craddock 18th century

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Description

fruitwood, leather
height 106 3/4 in.; width 172 in.
271.5 cm; 437 cm

now mounted on later wood backing comprising four pairs of double panels.

Catalogue Note

A casket signed and decorated by Marmaduke Craddock with birds almost identical to those found in the scene incorporating the peacock on the right side of this screen is now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, see Hans Huth, Lacquer of the West, Chicago and London, 1971, fig. 78.