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AN ENGLISH OAK HERALDIC ANGEL FROM A HAMMERBEAM CEILING
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AN ENGLISH OAK HERALDIC ANGEL FROM A HAMMERBEAM CEILING

CIRCA 1500

已结束2010年11月30日

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GBP 43,250

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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

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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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