Bench End
1400-1499 (made)
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BENCH-END, the front carved with three panels of tracery and foliage (one partly missing); the upper part which is moulded and carved at intervals with quatrefoil bosses, terminates with a lozenge-shaped finial.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Oak bench end |
| Brief description | Oak bench end, the front carved with three panels of tracery and foliage. English (North Somerset ?), ca. 1400-1499. |
| Physical description | BENCH-END, the front carved with three panels of tracery and foliage (one partly missing); the upper part which is moulded and carved at intervals with quatrefoil bosses, terminates with a lozenge-shaped finial. |
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| Credit line | Given By Mr Mowbray A. Green, F.R.I.B.A. |
| Bibliographic reference | Charles Tracy, English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork (London, 1988), cat. no. 199.
'BENCH-END, the front carved with three panels of tracery and foliage (one partly missing); the upper part which is moulded and carved at intervals with quatrefoil bosses, terminates with a lozenge-shaped finial (PL.71).
Given By Mr Mowbray A. Green, F.R.I.B.A.
Oak. 15th century
109 x 30.5 cm
Mus. No. W.29-1923
From the West Country (probably North Somerset), these bench-ends are presumably by the same workshop as the ones at East Brent and South Brent, Somerset. See J.C. Cox, Bench ends in English Churches, Oxford, 1916, 142 & 153. This is an example of a bench-end from the West Country with a poppy-head.' |
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| Accession number | W.29-1923 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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