A history of oak furniture . l be found to be in part an alteration, probablyfrom 1825, in a presumable endeavour to delude on the part of its one-time owners. In conclusion to this cnapter, let it be said that dates have been, and still are,added and affixed to furniture and fittings of old buildings, not only of theapproximate periods to which such examples belong, but also in most appallinglyloose and incorrect ways. The characteristic Jacobean screen at Apethorpe Hall,Northants., exhibits on one of its panels the inscription: — VIRTVS SVPER OMNIA VINCAT 1364, being only antedated by some 2
A history of oak furniture . l be found to be in part an alteration, probablyfrom 1825, in a presumable endeavour to delude on the part of its one-time owners. In conclusion to this cnapter, let it be said that dates have been, and still are,added and affixed to furniture and fittings of old buildings, not only of theapproximate periods to which such examples belong, but also in most appallinglyloose and incorrect ways. The characteristic Jacobean screen at Apethorpe Hall,Northants., exhibits on one of its panels the inscription: — VIRTVS SVPER OMNIA VINCAT 1364, being only antedated by some 250 or 300 years. The belfry ladder at Play den Church, Sussex, also shows an eleventh-centurydate, carved many years ago, but in Arabic characters. The spurious attribute onthe Great Bed of Ware {temp. Elizabeth) has been dealt with in my book on OldOak Furniture, and is of a character very different from the genuine date of thesame epoch, with its cross-legged fours, which figures above the entry to the churchyardat Plate VIi
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