Gilt wall drop with fruit, flowers, foliage and ribbon ties
George Jackson & Sons Ltd
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1891
Materials
Limewood
Measurements
3000 mm (Height)
Place of origin
London
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435155.2
Summary
Limewood, carved and gilt applique wall drop, George Jackson & Sons, 1891. One of a set of four gilt limewood wall drops, carved with garlands of fruit, flowers and foliage with ribbon ties.
Full description
The Belton annual account for 1891 shows that ‘G. Jackson & Sons’ were paid £54 – 11 – 6 ‘for making & gilding bold drops of flowers in the dining room’. Jackson & Sons did much restoration work at Belton for the 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844-1921), including the gilt overmantel in the Tyrconnel Room (NT 434857) which is similar to the wall drops in the Hondecoeter Room. Alice Rylance-Watson October 2018
Provenance
Acquired 1891 by Adelbert Wellington Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844-1921); see bill from George Jackson & Sons in Belton Annual Account, 1891. 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
George Jackson & Sons Ltd, architectural ornamentalists