Coffer
15th century (made)
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Walnut, the front is carved with two panels each occupied by a fleur de lys within a border of cusps. The back and the lid are each decorated with two panels and the sides with one each, filled in with Gothic tracery. There is a wrought iron lock with buttress-shaped fastenings and a hasp, and two long hinge-bands of the same metal pierced with Gothic tracery. The coffer is fitted inside with a small compartment with a hinged lid.
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Materials and techniques | Walnut and wrought iron |
Brief description | Walnut coffer with wrought iron fastenings and hasp, decorated with Gothic tracery, made in France, 15th century |
Physical description | Walnut, the front is carved with two panels each occupied by a fleur de lys within a border of cusps. The back and the lid are each decorated with two panels and the sides with one each, filled in with Gothic tracery. There is a wrought iron lock with buttress-shaped fastenings and a hasp, and two long hinge-bands of the same metal pierced with Gothic tracery. The coffer is fitted inside with a small compartment with a hinged lid. |
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Gallery label | COFFER
Wrought iron
France; 15th century
715-1895
Walnut, with wrought iron fastenings and hasp. The whole decorated with Gothic tracery.(07/1994) |
Object history | Acquired from Emile Peyre of 146 Avenue Malakoff, Paris, at the price of £7 Condition 'wormeaten' Listed in Peyre's house as no. 141 'Oak coffer with large fleur-de-lys' in a typed version of the 'Inventory of the contents rooms [sic] containing that part of Monsieur Peyre's Collection, iron-work and wood-work which he is willing to sell. The rooms are all on the ground floor of the house.' The inventory is numbered 1-329, with description and price, arranged by room; it was drawn up in early March 1895 by Thomas Armstrong (Director for Art 1881-98) and Caspar Purdon Clarke (Assistant Director and from 1896 Director of the Art Museum, later Director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York). Located in the room marked C in an annotated sketch plan of the ground floor of Peyre's house, which apparently accompanied a letter dated 28/2/1895 from Armstrong to Major General Sir John Donnelly (secretary of the Science and Art Department). |
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Bibliographic reference | W.G. Paulson Townsend, Measured drawings of French furniture in the South Kensington Museum (London 1899), part 10, plates 98-99. |
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Accession number | 715-1895 |
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Record created | December 14, 2005 |
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