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The Chinese screen
(1923)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- (124.8 × 99.4 cm)
- Accession Number
- 1427-3
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Another Work Furniture
- Subjects (specific)
- applied decoration Orientalism peacock (bird) screens (furniture)
- Movements
- Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School
Frame
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This frame is in the form of a Canaletto frame using low relief carved timber, characteristically worked into a shallow ogee profile (or ovolo, as here) at the corners and centres leaving unadorned panels in between. Frames in this style appear on a number of paintings by Arthur Streeton, including The Grampians (Mount Abrupt) 1921, 2013-412 (by John Thallon)
See also Canaletto frames on:
George W. Lambert The Official artist, 1183-3 (by Chapman Bros.)
George W. Lambert Lotty and a lady, 492-2.
Giovanni Battista Pittoni The Miracle of the loaves and fishes, 2360-4.
Giambattista Tiepolo The Banquet of Cleopatra, 103-4 (by F Pollak) - Framemaker
- Unknown - 20th century
- Date
- c.1923
- Materials
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carved timber, composition and gold leaf
- Condition
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good original condition
- Dimensions
- 132.5 x 193 x 15 cm