λ A HARDWOOD EBONY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID OTTOMAN-REVIVAL ORIENTALIST SCREEN
Possibly Liberty & Co., London, England, ca. 1880 - 1920

Of rectangular shape with three folding panels, resting on narrow bracket feet, with a mother-of-pearl-inlaid cusped vegetal spray plaque of ebony at the top, each panel divided into a ruched black fabric section at the top and a wooden marquetry board at the bottom with designs inspired from Ottoman furniture models, each panel decorated with a pair of three-lobed arches embellished with light wood and mother-of-pearl arabesques, interlocking split palmette sprays, stylised lotus flowers, rosette blossoms and pomegranates, and diamond-shaped fretwork bands inlaid on brown wood, 140cm x 43cm x 6.3cm folded.

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