Not currently on display at the V&A

Panel

1500-1525 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oak panel, carved with Gothic tracery, amid which is a shield bearing a merchant's mark.


Object details

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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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 153cm
  • Width: 60.3cm
  • Depth: 1cm
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.
Association
Bibliographic reference
ROWE, Eleanor (ed.), French Wood Carvings from the National Museums First Series - Late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries (London, 1896), pl.IV
Collection
Accession number
743-1895

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Record createdJune 16, 2008
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