Rare 17th-18th Century Spanish Cordovan polychromed leather panels now as a screen of four panels with eight panels of leather. Leather is tooled and polychromed.Rare pale green pearlescent coloring with gilding and finely tooled relief floral detail. Having 4 Panels 6 ft. 5 in. x 24 in., width of each panel. Likely from Córdoba, Spain.
Cordoba leather panels were important decorative elements in royal residences, which they progressively decorated during the 16th century and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Few examples remain today in European public collections, and leather panels have almost completely disappeared from the places they adorned, even though they were not just ornaments intended for vestibules and passageways, but important artworks devised by their renowned craftsmen. The disappearance of the use of leather panels simultaneously throughout Europe at the end of the 18th century and their difficult conservation have made them rare.
| Height | 6' 5" |
| Width | 24" each panel |
