Picture frame cartouche
This cartouche was part of an elaborate picture frame hung at Exeter’s Guildhall, commissioned after the Restoration. It was removed from the Guildhall in the late 19th century, when such work was little regarded.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 500/1987/3
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Architectural fragments
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- woodgiltpaint
- Common Name
- picture frame cartouche
- Simple Name
- cartouche
- Period Classification
- Charles II (1660-1685)