Panel
1590-1610 (made), after 1720 (repainted)
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Object Type
This panel bears the arms of the Moule family of Northampton, impaling those of the Hawkins family of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Rushall, Staffordshire. It would have been prominently positioned in the house, for example over the door of a large screen built across a hall or above a fireplace in a chamber, in order to emphasise the importance of the owner's family.
Materials & Making
The panel is of carved oak, and would probably have had highlights picked out. The presence of Prussian blue suggests that the current painted surface dates from after 1720.
Time
From the Middle Ages heraldry was often used to decorate more costly items or conspicuous parts of both the exteriors and interiors of a house, in order to enhance the prestige of the owner. In this panel the coats of arms are placed in a highly fashionable frame of about 1600, in a design similar to prints by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-?1606), an engraver and designer who spent most of his working life in Antwerp. Carvers, like silversmiths, painters and embroiderers, often used published prints as inspiration for decorative frames around coats of arms or images.
This panel bears the arms of the Moule family of Northampton, impaling those of the Hawkins family of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Rushall, Staffordshire. It would have been prominently positioned in the house, for example over the door of a large screen built across a hall or above a fireplace in a chamber, in order to emphasise the importance of the owner's family.
Materials & Making
The panel is of carved oak, and would probably have had highlights picked out. The presence of Prussian blue suggests that the current painted surface dates from after 1720.
Time
From the Middle Ages heraldry was often used to decorate more costly items or conspicuous parts of both the exteriors and interiors of a house, in order to enhance the prestige of the owner. In this panel the coats of arms are placed in a highly fashionable frame of about 1600, in a design similar to prints by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-?1606), an engraver and designer who spent most of his working life in Antwerp. Carvers, like silversmiths, painters and embroiderers, often used published prints as inspiration for decorative frames around coats of arms or images.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Carved and painted oak |
| Brief description | Oak panel, rectangular, carved with a shield of arms, surrounded by scrolls, festoons of fruits and Tritons blowing horns. English, early 17th century. |
| Physical description | Panel, carved in relief with a shield of arms, painted and gilt, surrounded by scrolls and festoons of fruit, with tritons blowing horns. The arms are those of Moule (barry of four, gules and arg.) impaling Hawkings of Co. Salop, and Rushall, Co. Stafford (ar. a hawk ppr. beaked and legged or, standing on a trunk of a tree vert). |
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| Object history | Possibly commissioned by the Moule family of Northampton, whose arms are shown with those of the Hawkins family Made in England based on a design by Vredeman de Vries (born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 1527, died, probably in The Hague, possibly in 1606). A Wells-Cole has pointed out that the design is based on a design for a cartouche attributed to Jan Vredeman de Vries) in Clemens Perret, Exercitatio Alphabetica, Antwerp 1569, pl.XV |
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| Summary | Object Type This panel bears the arms of the Moule family of Northampton, impaling those of the Hawkins family of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Rushall, Staffordshire. It would have been prominently positioned in the house, for example over the door of a large screen built across a hall or above a fireplace in a chamber, in order to emphasise the importance of the owner's family. Materials & Making The panel is of carved oak, and would probably have had highlights picked out. The presence of Prussian blue suggests that the current painted surface dates from after 1720. Time From the Middle Ages heraldry was often used to decorate more costly items or conspicuous parts of both the exteriors and interiors of a house, in order to enhance the prestige of the owner. In this panel the coats of arms are placed in a highly fashionable frame of about 1600, in a design similar to prints by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-?1606), an engraver and designer who spent most of his working life in Antwerp. Carvers, like silversmiths, painters and embroiderers, often used published prints as inspiration for decorative frames around coats of arms or images. |
| Bibliographic reference | From: H. Clifford Smith, Catalogue of English Furniture & Woodwork
(London 1930), 660, Plate 48 |
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| Accession number | 404-1872 |
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| Record created | June 16, 1998 |
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