Lot n° 137
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
INDOCHINA, CIRCA 1900 - Lot 137
INDOCHINA, CIRCA 1900
Large three-panel screen in velvet woven with polychrome threads, depicting a pair of titmice in flight among flowers, a bird among wisteria on the central panel, and a bird in flight above a butterfly among bamboo and blossoming flowers.
Total H.: 214 cm - L. 67 cm - Sight of woven panel: 175.5 x 57.8 cm
(Wooden frame damaged at the top, tear at the center of the middle panel, small tear at the back of the first panel on the right, not through)
Provenance
Presumed private collection of Monsieur Auguste Gérard (1852-1922), French ambassador to China (1893-1897) and Japan (1907-1913).
Then by descent to the current owner.
Possibly mentioned in the family inventory made in November 1976 under number 27 "Paravent 3 feuilles en tissu peint et rebrodé - travail Extême-Orient" page 5.
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