A SUITE OF 'JAPONISME' ROOM PANELLING
A SUITE OF 'JAPONISME' ROOM PANELLING
CIRCA 1870, PROBABLY BELGIUM
The polychrome and parcel-gilt burgundy-ground canvases decorated with oriental motifs including cranes, storks, parasols, lanterns and foliage applied with asymmetric sections of split bamboo creating fantastical scenes, some later additions, reconfigured and rebacked; together with loose lengths of split bamboo and eighteen later floating shelves
The panelling in sixteen sections, comprising ten large panels: 82 1⁄2 in. (209 cm.) high and closely similar; six wide panels with widths between 58 in. (147.5 cm) and 68 1⁄2 in. (174 cm.); two panels 28 in. (71 cm.) and two narrow panels 13 in. (33 cm.) wide; together with six smaller panels, two 27 x 58 3⁄4 in. (68.5 x 144 cm.) wide; four 58 1⁄4 x 11 in.(148.5 x 28 cm.)
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Philippe Denys, Biennale de des Antiquaires, Paris, late 1980s.
Supplied by François-Joseph Graf.
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A SUITE OF 'JAPONISME' ROOM PANELLING
CIRCA 1870, PROBABLY BELGIUM
The polychrome and parcel-gilt burgundy-ground canvases decorated with oriental motifs including cranes, storks, parasols, lanterns and foliage applied with asymmetric sections of split bamboo creating fantastical scenes, some later additions, reconfigured and rebacked; together with loose lengths of split bamboo and eighteen later floating shelves
The panelling in sixteen sections, comprising ten large panels: 82 1⁄2 in. (209 cm.) high and closely similar; six wide panels with widths between 58 in. (147.5 cm) and 68 1⁄2 in. (174 cm.); two panels 28 in. (71 cm.) and two narrow panels 13 in. (33 cm.) wide; together with six smaller panels, two 27 x 58 3⁄4 in. (68.5 x 144 cm.) wide; four 58 1⁄4 x 11 in.(148.5 x 28 cm.)
Provenance
Philippe Denys, Biennale de des Antiquaires, Paris, late 1980s.
Supplied by François-Joseph Graf.
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