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The front is carved with a lion’s mask in high relief on a scrolled cartouche, between floral scrollwork terminating in monsters’ heads (now for the most part gone), and the framework on either side is decorated with floral scrollwork. The sides of the coffer are also carved with floral scrollwork suspended by a riband beneath a round headed arch. The framework at each of the four corners is prolonged to form a foot. 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The rooms are all on the ground floor of the house.' The inventory is numbered 1-329, with description and price, arranged by room; it was drawn up in early March 1895 by Thomas Armstrong (Director for Art 1881-98) and Caspar Purdon Clarke (Assistant Director and from 1896 Director of the Art Museum, later Director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York).\n\r\nLocated in the room marked C in an annotated sketch plan of the ground floor of Peyre's house, which apparently accompanied a letter dated 28/2/1895 from Armstrong to Major General Sir John Donnelly (secretary of the Science and Art Department).\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oak coffer, France, 1500-1550","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"W.G. Paulson Townsend,<i> Measured drawings of French furniture in the South Kensington Museum</i> (London 1899), part 8, plates 80-81."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"ROWE, Eleanor (ed.), French Wood Carvings from the National Museums\r\nSecond Series - sixteenth century (London. 1896), pl.XXIII and XXIV\n\n'Plates XXIII and XXIV give the front and end of a carved oak chest of the period of Francis I. Compare the details of the carving with Plates XVII to XXI. The execution is by no means equal to that in Plate XVII, but the style of carving is the same. The lion’s head is ugly and it would appear as if some animals’ heads had terminated the upper scrolls, but are now broken off. The system of planting on extra wood in such places where fuller relief is required is said to have been introduced into France by Du Hanon, who executed for Louis XII the celebrated wooden ceiling for the ‘Grande Chambre du Parlement’. Du Hanon, an excellent cabinet maker, is said to have studied in Italy, and to have there learned the system of building up his material. For a roof, where the carving is not subjected to friction, this is a perfectly legitimate thing to do, but for furniture, or anything else that has to stand the wear and tear of daily use, it is a very great mistake. The carving is about half an inch relief, and the lion’s head, which is stuck on, about two inches in relief. Note that the background is sloped from the margin. The carving on the stiles is about a quarter of an inch in relief, and is quite out of scale with the rest of the work. In Plate XXIV the section gives the mouldings that lead up to the panel, the inner moulding at the top being worked out of the panel.'"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["679-1895"],"accessionNumberNum":"679","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1895,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW2627"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2005-03-02","availableToBook":true}}