Not currently on display at the V&A
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Architectural panel, English, 1575-1599, ex Exeter, carved
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| Parts | This object consists of 5 parts. - Architectural Panel
- Section of Panelling
- Pilaster Panel
- Architectural Panel
- Architectural Panel
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| Brief description | Architectural panel, English, 1575-1599, ex Exeter, carved |
| Gallery label | 4870 to 4881-1856
PANELLING
ENGLISH; late 16th century
Oak with conventional carved decoration in the frieze.
This panelling comes from the same house in Exeter as the panelling in Room 52. This section, however, lacks the carved pilasters.(pre October 2000) |
| Bibliographic references | - 4870 to 4881-1856
Part of the panelling of a room. The panelling is composed of a series of panels surrounded on three sides by a moulding. The whole is surmounted by a dentil cornice below which is a frieze formed of oblong panels carved with strapwork and floral scrolls with figures and masks. Along the bottom is a skirting border of strapwork. The panelling is divided at intervals by pilasters, the bases of which are carved with cartouche and strapwork, the shaft panels filled with formal scrolls of fruit and flowers, and with figures, terminals, birds and animals; above are Corinthian capitals surmounted by brackets carved with lions' masks. The panelling includes three doors with wrought iron hinges and latches. Also a piece of panelling 3 ft. 5 in. (104.1 cm) high and two smaller pieces (from below the windows) composed of a row of upright panels, with a row of oblong panels above carved with strapwork and foliage and having a shell in the centre.
Removed from a house near Exeter. End of 16th century.
From catalogue Total length about 41 ft., H. 8 ft. 2 in.
(Total length about 1249.7 cm, H. 249 cm)
This panelling corresponds closely with that at Bamfylde House, Exeter (see Museum Negatives, Nos. 32142 and 32143); also with that in the Dining Room at Bradfield Hall, near Exeter (see Negatives Nos. 32285 and 32289).
- Anthony Wells-Cole, An Oak bed at Montacute: a study in mannerist decoration (Furniture History, 1981 pp.1-19), pls. 14, 16B, 28B, 29B
Discussion of the carved 'formal' frieze design.
- Frederick Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture from the Earliest to the Present Time. 4th ed., London and New York: Truslove, Hanson and Comba Ltd., 1899, illustrated opp. p. 80
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