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Avery Tipping, FSA, Mounton House, Chepstow, 'worn and cracked, right portion missing'. Bought by the donor at Bristol. Said to have come either from Painswick Park or Flaxley Abbey.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Panel, English, oak with shallow carved ornament, arms of Sir Williams Kingston","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Percy MacQuoid: History of English Furniture. Vol. I. The Age of Oak (London, 1904), fig. 43, p.46\r\n\r\nAnother form of decorating panels of furniture at this time was by cutting out the ground, leaving the rest of the surface for the design; the sunk ground was then filled in with hard coloured composition. The panels (fig. 43) are either from the top of a long armoire or from the overdoors and overmantel of a room. They were made for Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower, who was the gaoler of both Anne Boleyn and Weston. 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