Lot Essay
Similar studies of church corbels are discussed in English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork, V & A Museum, London, nos. 41-42, figs. 6-7 and in Birkin Haward, Suffolk Medieval Church Roof Carvings: a Photographic Survey of carvings on Hammerbeam Roofs, Suffolk Institute of Archeology and History, 1999, pg 116-119. A related corbel was sold in these rooms, The Roger Warner Collection, 20 January 2009, Lot 44