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Possibly 380 x  400cm?","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Acquired with a ceiling and a door and doorway from the Church Farm, Clare (Sudbury, Suffolk). (The purchase of wall panelling and a chimneypiece from Church Farm was rejected as they had come from a different house, and were about 150 years later in date.) Purchased for £450 from Mr George von Pirch (7 Arundel Mansions, Fulham), who had removed them from the farm, probably acting for Sir Charles Lawes of St. Albans. Recommended by the architect T.G. Jackson and the artist Walter Crane.\r\nTransferred from the Sculpture Department to the Furniture Department RP 26/123.\r\n\r\nNotes on the RF recommend \"that it be put up at the same height from floor to ceiling as originally, and as nearly as possible in its true relative position to the great cart entrance which would involve keeping the floor of the room about 2' above the ground...we think the paint might be removed. The projecting soffit should be lathed and plastered and whitened and the facia moulding be refixed...The photographs of the house before its demolition [not found on RP] should accompany the actual work...\" Jackson and Crane\r\n\r\nSee photo of panelling in Medieval England ed. H.W.C. Davis (Oxford 1924) p.87, fig.73 - Tracy says 'The panelling of this room, purchased by Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge, is now at Rothamstead Park, (Herts. Buildings of England, Hertfordshire, 159.)\r\n\r\nTracy compares the cartway with the archway at Paycocke's House, Coggeshall, Essex.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Arch or cartway, English, 1475-1525, from Church Farm, Clare, Suffolk","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Charles Tracy, English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork (London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988), cat. no. 247\n\r\n'ARCH or CARTWAY, pointed and depressed; in the left spandrel is a boy holding by the tongue a dolphin terminating in scrolling leaves; in the right is a similar dolphin with a fish biting its tail. Above is a projecting cornice supported on two brackets.\r\nThe jambs are moulded (PL.8o).\r\nFrom the Church Farm, Clare, Suffolk\r\nOak. Early 16th century\r\nMus. No. 726-1902\r\nCompare the archway at Paycocke’s House, Coggeshall, Essex (Fig.50)'.\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"H. Clifford Smith, Catalogue of English Furniture & Woodwork. Vol. I – Gothic and Early Tudor (London, 1929). Cat. 215, p. 54\r\n“ARCH or CARTWAY, pointed and depressed; in the left spandrel is a boy holding by the tongue a dolphin terminating in  scrolling leaves; in the right is a similar dolphin with a fish biting its tail. Above is a projecting cornice supported on two brackets. The jambs are moulded (PL.8o). From the Church Farm, Clare, Suffolk. Early 16th century.\r\n 726-1902\r\nCompare archway at Paycocke’s House, Coggeshall, Essex, figured in ‘Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia,’ by Basil Oliver. 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