Fine Chinoiserie Red Lacquer Screen

Fine Chinoiserie Red Lacquer ScreenA splendid Chinese export four fold red lacquer screen, exquisitely decorated in gold leaf with scenes of rice harvest. Qing dynasty, 19th century. Why we like it Red lacquer screens are immensely decorative and impossibly rare to find. A power statement in any interior.

original surfaces throughout

Made around 1810 to commemorate the emperor's marriage to Marie-Louise

along with the tableted seat rails and typical Gillow reeded leg

along with two other ancient fragments from the Museo Borbonico in Naples

standing on four cabriole legs headed by knees carved with acanthus

and retains the manufacturer's label reading: 'Easy Chair and Sofa Factory Howard and Sons Upholsterers Berners Street London Patent Dining Tables'

1806 declared that the firm ‘have re-opened their Warerooms with a new and elegant assemblage of Parisian furniture’

An extremely fine bronzed metal medallion

7 July 1994

We particularly like the swagged backs

Lincolnshire

virtually untouched condition