Panel
1539-1540 (made)
Portion of a panel of oak (from the frieze of a room) incised with a mermaid, an infant, part of a male figure and foliage, the sunk background filled with black composition.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Oak with inlay |
| Brief description | English, 1500-50 |
| Physical description | Portion of a panel of oak (from the frieze of a room) incised with a mermaid, an infant, part of a male figure and foliage, the sunk background filled with black composition. |
| Dimensions | |
| Credit line | Given by H. Avery Tipping |
| Object history | Given by H. Avery Tipping, FSA, Mounton House, Chepstow, 'worn and cracked, right portion missing'. Bought by the donor at Bristol. Said to have come either from Painswick Park or Flaxley Abbey. |
| Associated objects | |
| Bibliographic reference | Percy MacQuoid: History of English Furniture. Vol. I. The Age of Oak (London, 1904), fig. 43, p.46
Another form of decorating panels of furniture at this time was by cutting out the ground, leaving the rest of the surface for the design; the sunk ground was then filled in with hard coloured composition. The panels (fig. 43) are either from the top of a long armoire or from the overdoors and overmantel of a room. They were made for Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower, who was the gaoler of both Anne Boleyn and Weston. He was created Knight of the Garter April 24, 1539, and died in 1540, so their date is conclusively fixed by the panel, unfortunately mutilated, bearing his arms, within a garter, Quarterly, 1st and 4th azure, a cross between four leopards’ faces argent; 2nd and 3rd ermines, a chevron and in chief a leopard’s face. The other arms are those of Lady Kingston, and the remaining panels of this series are decorated with heroic heads and scrolls of conventional ornament. It was solely through the report made by this Sir William Kingston to Cromwell of what Anne Boleyn had during her captivity told Lady Kingston in confidence, that young Sir Francis Weston first became implicated. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.52-1913 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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