Elizabethan panelled room from Exeter by Unknown Artist

Elizabethan panelled room from Exeter by Unknown Artist, c. 1584–1586

© Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery

Details

Medium:

Oak & lime plaster

Dimensions:

279 x 823 x 584 cm

Art Fund grant:

£10,114 ( Total: £24,548)

Acquired in:

2001

Vendor:

Butterfields

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.

Provenance

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