English School

decorated with Lincrusta panels designed by Dr Christopher Dresser, depicting birds, leaves, flowerheads and trellis designs, all between balustraded galleries with urn-shaped finials and turned feet

A decorative piece.With a slightly less vibrant colour than the illustration suggests.Some old marks and scratches overall consistent with age. Two small indentations to left upper panel. Some re-varnishing and re-touching. Lower right panel slightly buckled as can be partially seen in the illustration. The reverse has conforming panels to the front without the upper bird cartouches.
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A fragment of dado of the same design as the central cartouches of these screens, marked: "Dr. Dresser Inv.", is in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York.
Illustrated, Widar Halen, Christopher Dresser, Oxford, 1990, pl. 78.