Linen Press
1600-1650 (made)
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Linen-press of oak. The stand is shaped like a small low table without a top plate. There is heavy gadrooned moulding around the edge of the top. Four bulbous legs with gadrooned knops. Wainscoted base plate. The base of the top section has a drawer. From the base rise two fluted columns of square section, decorated on the outside with flat carved strapwork and an applied half round spindle ornament. Across the top a transverse beam with scrolled brackets and cresting (including a mark). Through this works the large wooden screw of the press. The lower end of the screw rotates in the press-plate which is recessed at the sides, so as to slide up and down. Two boards of deal, of no great age, accompany the press. These fit between the top and bottom plates of this press.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Oak, carving |
| Brief description | Linen press, Flemish 1600-1650 |
| Physical description | Linen-press of oak. The stand is shaped like a small low table without a top plate. There is heavy gadrooned moulding around the edge of the top. Four bulbous legs with gadrooned knops. Wainscoted base plate. The base of the top section has a drawer. From the base rise two fluted columns of square section, decorated on the outside with flat carved strapwork and an applied half round spindle ornament. Across the top a transverse beam with scrolled brackets and cresting (including a mark). Through this works the large wooden screw of the press. The lower end of the screw rotates in the press-plate which is recessed at the sides, so as to slide up and down. Two boards of deal, of no great age, accompany the press. These fit between the top and bottom plates of this press. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W.L. Hildburgh |
| Object history | Linen Press donated by Dr W L Hildburgh Notes from R.P. 46/354 On gift form 14/2/46 Listed as "1 carved press 17th C. Flemish" 11/2/46 memo Thorpe to Edwards explains that Dr Hildburgh wants to buy a 17th C. screw-press (currently at Baer in Davies Street) for the Museum. 25/3/46 minute by Thorpe this screw press, which we thought might be from the Low Countries, is offered as a gift by Dr Hildburgh in commemoration of his seventieth birthday. 26/3/46 Edwards minute this oak press is a good example of its type, better than the one already in the collections. 12/2/46 Baer receipt for 1 carved press -- 17th century: £35. |
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| Accession number | W.8-1946 |
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| Record created | September 25, 2008 |
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