FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

Details

AN ENGLISH RECTANGULAR PLASTER RELIEF OF FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE
First quarter 17th century
The carved pine frame in two sections, presently detached, see photograph on page
82in. (208.5cm.) wide, 68in. (172cm.) high

Provenance

The Molyneux Family, Teversal, Derbyshire and by descent to
the Earls of Caernarvon and the Herbert family, Pixton Park, Dulverton, Somerset.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The festive pastoral scene, with a shepherd playing a rustic bagpipe, relates to that featured around 1500 in the Playfair Book of Hours (see H. Cheape, The Book of the Bagpipe, London, 1999, p. 47).

Related plasterwork was executed in the late 16th century at Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire by Abraham Smith, and at Hardwick New Hall by Richard Orton and John Marker (A. Wells-Cole, Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, London, 1997, pp. 265 and 270).

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