Panel
1500-1540 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Carved panels were used to decorate both fixed woodwork (such as panelled walls or fireplaces), and portable furniture (such as chests or cupboards). Most individual panels are single-sided, but this one is double-sided, with (incomplete) carved ornament on one side, and linenfold on the other, suggesting that it may have been part of a screen that was seen from both sides. All over northern Europe in the first half of the 16th century, woodwork was decorated with a variety of renaissance ornament, such as the candelabrum, scrolling leaves or cherub's head on this panel. It seems to have been common within a room or on a single piece of furniture for carved renaissance ornament to be combined with more traditional, linenfold designs.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Carved walnut |
| Brief description | Panel, French ?, 1500-1525, walnut, centaur, cherub heads and linenfold |
| Physical description | Panel of walnut, carved on one side with linenfold, and carved on the other in high relief with a candelabrum (offset) with male grotesque figure below a cherub head, and flanked by scrolling foliage with a sphinx. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir Charles Allom |
| Object history | Given by Sir Charles Allom 'part of the ornament chipped' RP 33/4024, where the comparison is offered: Musée des Arts Decoratifs: Le Bois, by Louis Metman et Garton Brière (Paris), pl. XXXI, where four panels similar in style are illustrated. They are described as 'Franco-Italian' in style. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Literary reference | sphinx |
| Summary | Carved panels were used to decorate both fixed woodwork (such as panelled walls or fireplaces), and portable furniture (such as chests or cupboards). Most individual panels are single-sided, but this one is double-sided, with (incomplete) carved ornament on one side, and linenfold on the other, suggesting that it may have been part of a screen that was seen from both sides. All over northern Europe in the first half of the 16th century, woodwork was decorated with a variety of renaissance ornament, such as the candelabrum, scrolling leaves or cherub's head on this panel. It seems to have been common within a room or on a single piece of furniture for carved renaissance ornament to be combined with more traditional, linenfold designs. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.25-1933 |
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| Record created | December 22, 2005 |
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