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Fire Screen Panel
Manufactory Savonnerie Manufactory
After a design by Claude Audran III French
Not on view
This woven panel for a fire screen, given to Emperor Joseph II in 1777, was part of a limited stock Louis XVI exhausted through presents to Paul and Maria Feodorovna of Russia and to Gustav III of Sweden. This left the Savonnerie textile factory scrambling to adapt a larger folding screen panel into one suitable for a fire screen when the king later wanted to offer the same design to Prince Henry of Prussia.
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