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AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN BLIN DE FONTENAY, 19TH CENTURY Each leaf decorated with a light blue ground and centred by a four-lobed cartouche with a yellow, pink and blue fan motif, beneath a flower-filled basket with a parrot, beaded by a floral garland supported by two further parrots, above a basket of fruit flanked by squirrels, within a yellow outer border, and with close-nailed beige floral silk to the reverse Each leaf: 55 in. (140 cm.) high; 24 ? in. (62 cm.) wide
The eight different patterns for Savonnerie screens are listed, Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, The Savonnerie, Fribourg, 1982, pp. 299-300. This screen was the first pattern woven at the Savonnerie and was probably designed by Blain de Fontenay whose name is mentioned in three separate references to this pattern. The original panels were made in the Chaillot workshops of the Savonnerie from 1703. Dupont delivered seventy-eight leaves for screens of this pattern in 1707 and a further eighteen in 1709. Between 1709 and 1711 the upholsterers of the Garde-Meuble made them up into eight screens each with six double-sided leaves, four of which were delivered by the upholsterer Lallier on 26 October 1711 pour servir dans le Salon de Marly.
A Louis XIV four-leaf single-sided screen of this model, was sold Christie's, London, 6 July 2006, lot 250 (£78,000). A further two-leaf screen of this model is at Vaux-le-Vicomte, while a single Savonnerie panel of this pattern, now mounted on a firescreen, is at Waddesdon Manor (P. Verlet, op.cit., pp. 325-329, no. 14).