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Turned mahogany pole screens, XF225 and XF226, by Paul Roberts Ltd, 1979, mahogany, silk and glass. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Hugh Kelly.
Turned mahogany pole screen by Paul Roberts Ltd, 1979
c.1784-1815
Embroideries probably made some time between John and Eliza's marriage in 1784 and her death in 1815.
Embroideries probably made some time between John and Eliza's marriage in 1784 and her death in 1815.
Mahogany with embroidered silk under glass
Height: 151cm
Height (screen): 42.5cm
Width: 34cm
Height (screen): 42.5cm
Width: 34cm
Museum number: XF224
On display: South Drawing Room
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Curatorial note
One of a pair with XF225. Enclosing framed oval silk embroidered panels; the centre of each silk panel painted with two young women holding sheet music within a border of embroidered blue and cream ribbons and harebells.
Although these two original ovals were discovered, unframed, in a drawer in the late nineteenth century they appear to be those visible in the 1825 view of the South Drawing Room by J. M. Gandy (Vol. 82, 29) in their original pole screens.
1 Photographs of the South Drawing Room in c.1911 show the ovals framed and hung on the doors to the North Drawing Room. SM Archive Repairs Register entry for 1979 records that the mahogany fire screens were made by Paul Roberts Ltd. at a cost of £115.
Although these two original ovals were discovered, unframed, in a drawer in the late nineteenth century they appear to be those visible in the 1825 view of the South Drawing Room by J. M. Gandy (Vol. 82, 29) in their original pole screens.
1 Photographs of the South Drawing Room in c.1911 show the ovals framed and hung on the doors to the North Drawing Room. SM Archive Repairs Register entry for 1979 records that the mahogany fire screens were made by Paul Roberts Ltd. at a cost of £115.
Provenance
Embroidered ovals possibly made by Mrs Soane; Trustees Minutes 9 January 1893 describe the ‘two oval fire screens with small painted engravings found by Mr Wild in a drawer’ which were ‘directed to be suitably framed and glazed’;1 Sir John Summerson’s Repairs ledger entry for 1979 notes that the mahogany fire screens were made in order to carry the original embroidered panels by Paul Roberts Ltd. at a cost of £115.
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