Carved panel
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Blank, Wood
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486124
Summary
An oblong carved panel with two putti emerging from a rich acanthus background and supporting the Duke and Duchess of Somerset's monogram encircled by the Garter.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.