Overmantel
This decorative wooden panel shows a scene from the ancient Greek myth The Judgement of Paris. This once hung above the fireplace in the drawing room of a house in High Street, Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 35/1928
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Architectural fragments
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Medium
- wood (fruitwood?) on
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- overmantel
- Simple Name
- overmantel
- Period Classification
- Elizabethan (1558-1603)
- Production Country
- Low Countries / Germany
- Production Year Low
- 1580
- Production Year High
- 1600
