CIRCA 1500

Details

AN ENGLISH OAK HERALDIC ANGEL FROM A HAMMERBEAM CEILING
CIRCA 1500
With detachable wings, holding a shield carved with the family crest of the Earls of Derby
38 in. (97 cm.) high

Provenance

By repute, the chapel (now demolished) of Knowsley Hall, Nr. Liverpool, the ancestral home of the Stanley family, the Earls of Derby. The shield bears the Derby family crest of an eagle with wings extended over a baby

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Lot Essay

For similar oak angels from ceilings see English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork, V & A publications, 1984, pp. 43-45, figs 6 and 7. The eight hammer-beam ends of the roof at St Mary's church in Cilcain, Nr. Mold, North Wales, have very similar angels with shields carved with Instruments of the Passion. Wendreda, March, Cambridgeshire has further examples

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