Details
In the Aesthetic taste, each rectangular frame surmounted by a Japonesque strapwork handle and cast with beading throughout, mounted with two rotating panels painted with a view of a duck or pair of thrushes in flight above a marshy landscape, the pivot release finials to the panels' sides cast as pinecones, on scroll feet spanned by scrolling foliage
38.75 in. (98.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Saint-Tropez.
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Narcisse Vivien is recorded as a meticulous painter of birds often in association with platinum grounds. His work was exhibited at the Paris Universelle Exposition of 1878. For a very similar firescreen signed by Vivien and with the same duck motif, see Christie's, Mew York, 24 April 2002, lot 78. Also compare the jewel box on tiered stand also signed NV, sold Christie's, New York, 16 April 2015, lot 28.

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