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Below  the lock-plate (now missing) is a selfoil ornament, on one side is a row of interlacing arches filled with bands of spiral ornament, on the other side portions of similar arches.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oak","id":"AAT12264"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oak","categories":[{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES341902"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Chest front","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Suffolk","id":"x29440"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1480-1520","earliest":"1480-01-01","latest":"1520-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Mrs Graham Rees-Mogg","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"38.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"104.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Thickness","value":"1.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"LW 19.1.10","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought on the Museum's behalf by Mrs Rees-Mogg from Frank Jennings (12 Holland Street, W.8), along with a chest W.428-1922 and another chest front (W.430-1922). They were delivered to the Museum from Walberswick, Suffolk, and the acquisition file records that it had been purchased by a former owner in Lavenham. A pencil sketch elevation (author unknown) is with the RP 22/7208.","historicalContext":"Comparable objects:\r\n-'A rare Henry VIII oak boarded chest, with associated lid, circa 1520-40', Lot 467, p. 154-155, Bonhams 21/01/2014\r\n- 'Little Waldingfield chest', Suffolk Church Chests, p. 28 Fig. 43 (David Sherlock, Suffolk Church Chests, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, 2008)\r\n- 'Henry VIII oak boarded chest, c. 1520 - 1540', Marhamchurch Antiques (#Marh256)\r\n- Oak boarded chest, Clive Sherwood sale at Sotheby's, 22/05/2002, lot number 53","briefDescription":"Portion of a boarded chest front in oak.  Eastern Counties of England, ca. 1480-1520.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Charles Tracy, English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork (London, 1988), cat. no.308.\r\n\r\n'PORTION of a boarded CHEST-FRONT; below the lock—plate (now missing) is a sexfoil ornament, on one side is a row of interlacing arches filled with bands of spiral ornament, on the other side portions of similar arches (the panel at this point having been mutilated).\r\nGiven by Mrs Graham Rees-Mogg\r\nOak. Early 16th century\r\n39.4 x 104 cm\r\nMus. No. W.429-1922\r\nEast Anglian\r\nPurchased by a former owner at Lavenham, Suffolk'\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"H. Clifford Smith, Catalogue of English Furniture & Woodwork. Vol II - Late Tudor and Early Stuart (London 1930)","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"Sherlock, David. 'Suffolk Church Chests', Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, 2008. p. 28","free":" Three more chests carved with Gothic fronts are now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, their provenances  uncertain but  conceivably from Suffolk. One, purchased by a former owner at Bury St Edmunds, has a front  'carved with two rows of ornament, the upper composed of quatrefoils and trefoils, and the lower of a row of  narrow arches of late perpendicular character. Below the front is a portion of carved spandrel' (Tracey, 1988,  no.302); from Ipswich a chest front has 'diagonal bands of ornament; on either side is a rounded arch carved  with leaf design and filled with ornament resembling tracery' (ibid, no.309); and from Lavenham comes a chest  with sexfoil ornament. On one side is a row of interlacing arches filled with bands of spiral ornament, and on the  other is side potions of similar arches (ibid, no.308). The front of the Bury chest has traces of its original red paint,  a reminder that all the above chests may have originally been colourfully painted. The handful of decorated chests  mentioned above do not amount to much compared with the quantity of woodwork on screens and bench ends in  the country; nor can they be said to represent any particular country or regional style of carving."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["W.429-1922"],"accessionNumberNum":"429","accessionNumberPrefix":"W","accessionYear":1922,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-05","recordCreationDate":"2007-02-27","availableToBook":true}}