A set of three oak 'parchemin' panels, English, early 16th century
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A set of three oak 'parchemin' panels, English, early 16th century

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A set of three oak 'parchemin' panels, English, early 16th century
the rectangular sections enriched with sinuous folds flanked by fruiting vines and leafy tendrils -- 15in. (38cm.) high (3)
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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition Antique Collectors Club, 1979, page 419, figures 4:19.

The parchment-fold panel is generally associated with decorative wood panelling around the city of Norwich and South East England in Tudor times. It would have also been popular in London and existed little before the mid 16th to the mid 17th century peroid.

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