A significant and rare Henry VIII carved oak mount, 1533-6, of Anne Boleyn's (c.1501-36) royal badge, possibly by Richard Rydge (fl. 1532-6)
A significant and rare Henry VIII carved oak mount, 1533-6, of Anne Boleyn's (c.1501-36) royal badge, possibly by Richard Rydge (fl. 1532-6)
Covered now in an off-black paint, with traces of a lighter pinkish bole below, and scattered areas of red pigment, and gilding, and modelled as a falcon wearing a closed imperial crown, its fore-wing furled over at the top, its rear wing aloft, and holding a sceptre formed as a pair of opposing balusters topped by a gadrooned ball knop, the falcon standing on a tapering stump or woodstock, pounced and with dentil-like protrusions, and issuing a spray of three rows of four flowers, on four curving stalks, 19.5cm wide x 3.5cm deep x 20.5cm high, (7 1/2in wide x 1in deep x 8in high)
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A significant and rare Henry VIII carved oak mount, 1533-6, of Anne Boleyn's (c.1501-36) royal badge, possibly by Richard Rydge (fl. 1532-6)
Covered now in an off-black paint, with traces of a lighter pinkish bole below, and scattered areas of red pigment, and gilding, and modelled as a falcon wearing a closed imperial crown, its fore-wing furled over at the top, its rear wing aloft, and holding a sceptre formed as a pair of opposing balusters topped by a gadrooned ball knop, the falcon standing on a tapering stump or woodstock, pounced and with dentil-like protrusions, and issuing a spray of three rows of four flowers, on four curving stalks, 19.5cm wide x 3.5cm deep x 20.5cm high, (7 1/2in wide x 1in deep x 8in high)
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