Panel
ca. 1450 (made)
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This panel would once have been part of a series that covered a room in a domestic or municipal setting, as well as helping insulate it from the cold and damp. The slender gothic tracery surrounding the arms indicates that this panel was carved at some time from about 1450. The fleur-de-lys had been the royal emblem of France from about 1180, but this panel is more likely to have come from a town hall or house of a loyal subject than the monarch himself.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Carved oak |
| Brief description | French 1470-1500. Ex Peyre Collection. |
| Physical description | "Panel, French, late 15th cenury. Oak. Carved in relef with a crowned shield bearing a cross between four fleur-de-lys, beneath a pointed arch filled with Gothic tracery. The spandrels are carved with tracery and leaf ornament" - 1895 registered description. |
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| Object history | Bought from Emile Peyre for £15 This panel was formerly in the collection of Emile Peyre (1824-1904), a notable Parisian collector of French medieval and renaissance artefacts. In 1895 the South Kensington Museum (renamed the V&A in 1900), bought over 300 pieces of furniture and woodwork from him, (as well as sculpture and metalwork), at a cost of £11,878. 16s. 9d. |
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| Summary | This panel would once have been part of a series that covered a room in a domestic or municipal setting, as well as helping insulate it from the cold and damp. The slender gothic tracery surrounding the arms indicates that this panel was carved at some time from about 1450. The fleur-de-lys had been the royal emblem of France from about 1180, but this panel is more likely to have come from a town hall or house of a loyal subject than the monarch himself. |
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| Accession number | 865-1895 |
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| Record created | December 7, 2005 |
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