A displayed eagle with swags of tulips and seashells
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1850 - circa 1899
Materials
Limewood and possibly walnut or oak
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436757.5
Summary
Limewood and possibly walnut or oak, carved eagle with swags of tulips and clustered shells, c.1850-99. A 19th century carving of a displayed eagle (possibly walnut or oak) looking to proper right, its talons curled around a bow-shaped swag (probably limewood). The top half of the swag shows tulips, the bottom half clustered seashells similar to the shells depicted in NT 435033.2, an overmantel carved in 1688 by Edmund Carpenter. The displayed eagle appears to be a later replacement of NT 434965 which has a gilt beak and talons. Alice Rylance-Watson December 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)