Limewood overmantel carving with fruit, flowers and foliage
Edmund Carpenter
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Mar 1688
Materials
Limewood
Measurements
1500 x 1500 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434858.2
Summary
Limewood, carved applique overmantel with fruit, flowers and oak foliage, Edmund Carpenter, March 1688. A carved limewood overmantel comprised of a crest and two drops, installed at the east end of the Saloon.
Full description
The drops consist of intricately carved foliage, fruit and flowers. Seedpods, peapods, daisies, pinecones, catkins, acanthus, wheat, quince, pear, plums, poppies and roses can be seen. The crest is carved with foliate and floral swags crowned by double acanthus scroll. A bill for this for this overmantel was presented on 26 March 1688 by Edmund Carpenter, the carver of a frieze in the Tyrconnel Room (NT 435096) and an overmantel in Marble Hall (NT 435033.2). Carpenter charged £18 ‘ffor a Chimny peece in the greate Parlour wth fruit | and flowers agreed for to be don att … £18 – 00 – 00’. Alice Rylance-Watson October 2018
Provenance
Acquired March 1688 by Sir John Brownlow (1659-97) from Edmund Carpenter; see bill of 26 March 1688 in Brownlow Papers, Lincolnshire Archives. Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)
Makers and roles
Edmund Carpenter, woodcarver
References
Tinniswood 1992: Adrian Tinniswood, Belton House, Lincolnshire, The National Trust, London, 1992, pp.13-4 Green 1964: David Green, Grinling Gibbons: His work as carver and statuary 1648-1721, London 1964, pp.114-5 Esterly1998: David Esterly, Grinling Gibbons and the art of carving, V&A Publications, London 1998 Tipping, 1913: Henry Avray Tipping, Grinling Gibbons and the Woodwork of his Age 1648-1720, 1913