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Linenfold paneled room

about 1500 (with later additions)
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueOak, glass, stained glass
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Edward Foote Dwight in memory of her father and mother, George Parsons and Sarah Elizabeth Eddy Parsons
Accession number23.604.1-4
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsArchitectural elements
Collections
Description
The Museum acquired the ceiling, together with the paneled walls and other architectural elements, as part of a complete paneled room said to have been removed from a rectory near Tarporley, in Somerset. Subsequent research has shown that the room is instead an assemblage of mostly Tudor-period elements, brought together by the London antique firm of Gill & Reigate. The linenfold carving clearly reveals a number of different sources for the paneling, though is mostly of the Tudor period, 1485-1603.”
ProvenanceBy 1920, assembled by Gill and Reigate, London; 1923, sold by Gill and Reigate to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 6, 1923)
Hans Sebald Beham
about 1530
1702
16th–17th century
Panel depicting Angel Playing Recorder
second half of 15th century
Saint Jerome
Hans Süss von Kulmbach
about 1511
14th century
16th century
16th century
16th century
16th century
16th century