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English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

07/1937 | 412 | 71

Pages: 25-27+30-33+35

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Author:

Huth, Hans (Huth, Hans)

Subjects

artists:

Halford, Robert

artists:

Barbaroux, William

dates:

1700-1799

places:

China / England

subjects:

Chinoiserie / Chinese / Chinese Art / Influence

subjects:

Decorative arts / Leather

subjects:

East India Company

subjects:

Screens (furniture) / Lacquerware / Techniques / Japanning

subjects:

Critical Reception / Documents

subjects:

Trade cards / Leather Gilders

Illustrations

Attributed works:

Fig. 2 - Signature 'Coventry, London'.

Attributed works:

Fig. 3. Trade Card of Robert Halford, Leather-Gilder. [Etched by Tringham, working betweek 1750 and 1760] (Sir Ambrose Heal, London)

Attributed works:

Fig. 4. Trade Card of William Barbaroux, Leather-Gilder. [Etched by Morrison, date unknown](Sir Ambrose Heal, London)

Western art unattributed:

Fig. 1. Design for Embossed Leather. (From the Treatise of Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Paris, 1762)

Western art unattributed:

Plate I. A, B-Two Details of Leather Hangings. A Is Signed "Coventry, London." (Schloss Löwenburg, near Cassel); C-Leather Screen. 1.9 by 2.12 m.; D-Detail of Plate I, c (Victoria & Albert Museum). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

Western art unattributed:

Plate II. A-Leather Screen (Private Collection). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

Western art unattributed:

Plate II. B-Leather Screen (Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

Western art unattributed:

Plate II. C-Leather Screen. Height, 2.13 m. (Private Collection). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

Western art unattributed:

Plate II. D-Leather Screen (Private Collection). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

Western art unattributed:

Plate III. A-Leather Screen. Height 2.59 m. (Messrs. M. Harris & Sons, London). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

Western art unattributed:

Plate III. B-Leather Hanging. (Schloss Finkenstein, East Prussia). English Chinoiserie Gilt Leather

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