A LOUIS XV STYLE CARVED GILTWOOD FIRE SCREEN 19th century

upholstered à châssis with heavily embroidered silk panel worked in polychrome silk and silver metal thread, probably French or Italian, circa 1700.

With scattered age and construction cracks, abrasions and dents. Carving with minor losses, chips and abrasions. Regilt, gilding with extensive rubbing and losses. With plexiglass to protect textile inset. In good condition.
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For a basically identical 18th-century carved beechwood fire screen attributed to Nicolas Heurtaut, see Bill Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France, Paris, 1987, pp. 161-162.