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Jacobean panelled room (© V&A Picture Library)
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© V&A Picture Library

Jacobean panelled room

Artist: attributed to Inigo Jones (1573 - 1652)

Location: Victoria and Albert Museum

Date: 1600 - 1625

Materials: unpainted pine

Grant:

Amount Paid: £525 (Total: £4,000)

Vendor: Sir Edmund Davis

Review number: 698 (1929)

Provenance:
May have formed part of the fittings for Houghton House, Bedfordshire, in 1794 moved to Haynes Grange and later to a London house.

Description:
Features: tall fluted pilasters with carved capitals,detached pedimented columns to flank windows and form niches at either end of the room, moulded plaster ceiling decorated with rows of painted pigeons in blue. 53 panels in total.

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