An Aesthetic Movement mahogany two-fold screen, with pierced rails and two hinged shelves, set with embroidered silk panels of flowers and foliage unsigned 109.5cm. high, 90cm wide Provenance Property of a Lady, By family repute the screen was part of the contents of Ivydene, Little Switzerland, Douglas on the Isle of Man a house designed by M.H. Baillie Scott, commissioned in 1893-94.

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