Panel
1475-1500 (made)
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Quatrefoil panel with raised, flat-edge moulding carved in shallow relief with a winged lion (for St Mark) with a scroll. The panel is formed from 3 sections of oak (and a small section at the left appears to have been replaced).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Oak, carved |
| Brief description | French 1400-1500, lion of St Mark. Ex Peyre Collection. |
| Physical description | Quatrefoil panel with raised, flat-edge moulding carved in shallow relief with a winged lion (for St Mark) with a scroll. The panel is formed from 3 sections of oak (and a small section at the left appears to have been replaced). |
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| Object history | Bought from Emile Peyre for £8 'split'. A third panel (after 858-1895) is recorded as having gone to Dublin after the purchase. 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. |
| Literary reference | Lion of St Mark |
| Associated object | 858-1895 (Ensemble) |
| Bibliographic reference | Eleanor Rowe, Practical Wood-Carving; part 2 Advanced Wood-Carving (London, 1907), p 22-27. Ill.
[Writing of museum nos. 675-1895, 859-1895, 858-1895, 676-1895]
'...Of the Frech panels the winged ox is the least satisfactory. The lion is admirably carved. Note the simple massing of the hair and the feathering of the wings. Both examples of the eagle show an excellent broad treatment of the bird's plumage without any small realistic details. The angel too is well designed for the space it has to fill, and is executed in the same simple broad manner as the others.
The emblems are about 1 in. in relief, and the ground is sloped from the edge but is otherwise flat...' |
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| Accession number | 859-1895 |
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| Record created | November 5, 2008 |
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