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Elizabethan panelled room from Exeter (© Royal Albert Memorial Museum)
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© Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Elizabethan panelled room from Exeter

Artist: English

Location: Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Date: circa 1584-1586

Materials: oak & lime plaster

Dimensions: 279 x 823 x 584cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £10,114 (Total: £24,548)

Vendor: Butterfields

Review number: 4997 (2001)

Provenance:
Prior to 1930 at 229 High Street Exeter; French & Sons, New York, 1930; Mrs E J Magnin; donated to Young Museum, San Francisco.

Description:
A four-walled room with moulded paneling. The mantel and over mantel have fret-carved foliate strapwork, roundels and spindles, with renaissance style animal masks and four caryatids. Three of the panels are of lighter oak with fruitwood marquetry inlaid in the arches.

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