Panel
1480-1500 (made)
| Place of origin |
Oak panel, carved with a Gothic niche, within which is a crowned fleur-de-lys (nearly obliterated) above and a crowned letter L below. The ground is covered with delicately incised scrollwork.
Object details
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| Brief description | Oak panel, carved, Northern France, late 15th century, ex-Peyre Collection |
| Physical description | Oak panel, carved with a Gothic niche, within which is a crowned fleur-de-lys (nearly obliterated) above and a crowned letter L below. The ground is covered with delicately incised scrollwork. |
| Dimensions | HW: 66.7x17.8cm (from file) |
| Object history | Bought from Emile Peyre for £10, 'wormeaten, worn and portions missing'. 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | W.G. Paulson Townsend, Measured Drawings of French Furniture in the South Kensington Museum (London 1899), part 12, plate 120. |
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| Accession number | 862-1895 |
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| Record created | April 16, 2008 |
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