A carved wooden fire screen with a tapestry-style panel showing "Sight" (La Vue), one of the six Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The lady sits on a blue island of flowers holding up a mirror, with the unicorn resting its forelegs in her lap and the lion beside them, on a red ground scattered with mille-fleurs, rabbits and trees.
The panel is framed in a close row of brass nailheads. The frame has a pierced fretwork cresting and apron in the Chinese taste, with cloud-scroll ears at the corners, and stands on two shaped trestle feet. The back is covered in a cream paper with a small clover print.
Good in front of an unused fireplace, or as a freestanding picture in a hall or bedroom.
Measurements: 34 inches high, 26 inches wide, 7 inches deep. Panel 22 by 22 inches.
CONDITION
The panel is faded and rubbed in places, most visibly on the unicorn and the lady's face, with the weave showing through.Light wear to the finish. The paper backing is torn along one side, with foxing spots.
DETAILS
Form — fire screen on trestle feet
Height — 34 in / 86 cm
Width — 26 in / 66 cm
Depth — 7 in / 18 cm
Panel — 22 x 22 in / 56 x 56 cm
Subject — Sight (La Vue), after the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries
Frame — carved wood with pierced fretwork, brass nailheads
Period — early 20th century, on style
A carved wooden fire screen with a tapestry-style panel showing "Sight" (La Vue), one of the six Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The lady sits on a blue island of flowers holding up a mirror, with the unicorn resting its forelegs in her lap and the lion beside them, on a red ground scattered with mille-fleurs, rabbits and trees.
The panel is framed in a close row of brass nailheads. The frame has a pierced fretwork cresting and apron in the Chinese taste, with cloud-scroll ears at the corners, and stands on two shaped trestle feet. The back is covered in a cream paper with a small clover print.
Good in front of an unused fireplace, or as a freestanding picture in a hall or bedroom.
Measurements: 34 inches high, 26 inches wide, 7 inches deep. Panel 22 by 22 inches.
CONDITION
The panel is faded and rubbed in places, most visibly on the unicorn and the lady's face, with the weave showing through.Light wear to the finish. The paper backing is torn along one side, with foxing spots.
DETAILS
Form — fire screen on trestle feet
Height — 34 in / 86 cm
Width — 26 in / 66 cm
Depth — 7 in / 18 cm
Panel — 22 x 22 in / 56 x 56 cm
Subject — Sight (La Vue), after the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries
Frame — carved wood with pierced fretwork, brass nailheads
Period — early 20th century, on style
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