Panel
1500-1525 (made)
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Oak panel, carved with Gothic tracery, amid which is a shield bearing a merchant's mark.
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Brief description | Oak panel from the Cluny Abbey (or Cluni, or Clugny), France. Early 16th century |
Physical description | Oak panel, carved with Gothic tracery, amid which is a shield bearing a merchant's mark. |
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Object history | Purchased for £40: 'wormeaten and split'. 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. |
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Bibliographic reference | ROWE, Eleanor (ed.), French Wood Carvings from the National Museums
First Series - Late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries (London, 1896), pl.IV |
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Accession number | 743-1895 |
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Record created | June 16, 2008 |
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