Carved limewood panel with swags of shells, flowers, fruit, foliage and bunches of fish
style of Grinling Gibbons (Rotterdam 1648 - London 1721)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1688 - 1850 - 1899
Materials
Limewood
Measurements
1500 mm (Length)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435033.5
Summary
Limewood, carved applique panel in the style of Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), possibly by Edmund Carpenter, c.1688 and mid-late 19th century. A carved limewood panel possibly by Edmund Carpenter installed over the door connecting the Marble Hall to the Saloon. The motif of shells and fish among swags of flowers, fruit and foliage associates it with NT 435033.2, an overmantel by Edmund Carpenter installed to the right of this panel.
Full description
The central swag features acanthus scrolls and clusters of abalone, cowrie, conch and turritella shells encased in a twisted string of pearls. The swags to the left and right show plums, walnuts, catkins, cobnuts, anemone, buttercups, roses and barley and end in bunches of freshwater fish. The fish to the left are noticeably cruder than those on the right, indicating that this part of the panel is a later addition, probably 19th century, installed when extra bunches of fish were added to lengthen the drops on overmantel 435033.2. Alice Rylance-Watson October 2018
Provenance
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
style of Grinling Gibbons (Rotterdam 1648 - London 1721), woodcarver