A Mid-17thC Flemish Gilt Framed Embossed & Gilded Leather Wallpaper Fragment sub-Natural History Charmingly naïve

Charmingly naïve

The condition of the drawing is relatively good and is in as original order as you would want to find it

with even the stand being the very same

was a hand puppet operated by the amateur magician

A Mid-17thC Flemish Gilt Framed Embossed & Gilded Leather Wallpaper Fragment sub-Natural History Charmingly naïveOrigin: FlemishPeriod: Renaissance Baroque Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1650 70Height: 34Width: 27Depth: 2 (all in frame)The gloriously painted, embossed and gilded leather wallpaper fragment, with fruit and flowers issuing from the centre in ruby red and peacock blue with white highlights to a gilt ground and presented in a later gilt frame and surviving from the middle of seventeenth century Netherlands. The panel has been well preserved in its frame