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It would have been prominently positioned in the house, for example over the door of a large screen built across a hall or above a fireplace in a chamber, in order to emphasise the importance of the owner's family.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The panel is of carved oak, and would probably have had highlights picked out. The presence of Prussian blue suggests that the  current  painted surface dates from after 1720.<br><br><b>Time</b><br>From the Middle Ages heraldry was often used to decorate more costly items or conspicuous parts of both the exteriors and interiors of a house, in order to enhance the prestige of the owner. In this panel the coats of arms are placed in a highly fashionable frame of about 1600, in a design similar to prints by Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-?1606), an engraver and designer who spent most of his working life in Antwerp. Carvers, like silversmiths, painters and embroiderers, often used published prints as inspiration for decorative frames around coats of arms or images.","physicalDescription":"Panel, carved in relief with a shield of arms, painted and gilt, surrounded by scrolls and festoons of fruit, with tritons blowing horns.  The arms are those of Moule (barry of four, gules and arg.) impaling Hawkings of Co. Salop, and Rushall, Co. Stafford (ar. a hawk ppr. beaked and legged or, standing on a trunk of a tree vert).","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oak","id":"AAT12264"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"painting (coating)","id":"AAT161986"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved and painted oak","categories":[{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AM7469","2015HR4557"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"58E (VA)","id":"THES49233"},"free":"","case":"WN","shelf":"","box":"3"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Panel","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1590-1610","earliest":"1590-01-01","latest":"1610-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"after 1720","earliest":"1721-01-01","latest":null},"association":{"text":"repainted","id":"x36650"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"139.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"113","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 21/06/2000 by KB","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Possibly commissioned by the Moule family of Northampton, whose arms are shown with those of the Hawkins family\nMade in England based on a design by Vredeman de Vries (born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 1527, died, probably in The Hague, possibly in 1606).\r\n\r\nA Wells-Cole has pointed out that the design is based on a design for a cartouche attributed to Jan Vredeman de Vries) in Clemens Perret, Exercitatio Alphabetica, Antwerp 1569,  pl.XV","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oak panel, rectangular, carved with a shield of arms, surrounded by scrolls, festoons of fruits and Tritons blowing horns. 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The panel may come from the overmantel of a fireplace.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["404-1872"],"accessionNumberNum":"404","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1872,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN0615","2019LR2955","2019LV6015"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-22","recordCreationDate":"1998-06-16","availableToBook":false}}