Lot 136
MID-VICTORIAN BLACK AND GILT PAPIER-MÂCHÉ FIRESCREEN
ATTRIBUTED TO JENNENS & BETTRIDGE, CIRCA 1860
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
£1,625
Description
painted with a view of Salisbury Cathedral within an ornate pierced shell border, raised on a baluster stem and quadripartite scrolling legs
Dimensions
82cm (32.3in) wide, 130cm (51.2in) high
Footnote
Note: This was previously exhibited at the B.A.D.A. Duke of York Fair as being by Jennens and Bettridge
Literature: Joy Billington, Forbes: The London Collection, The Illustrated London News, Spring, 1991, Vol. 279, No.7099, p. 41