Gong
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Oak and brass
Measurements
1130 x 725 mm
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Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
NT 421952
Summary
A large gong on a mid-19th-century Gothic carved oak stand; the gong of beaten brass, possibly of Middle Eastern origin; the stand English, with round-arched top-rail springing from the castellated tops of stop-chamfered trestle supports, linked below by a deep cross-rail pierced with three quatrefoils.