COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_09593
Creator name:
unknown
Creator nationality:
Netherlandish or English
Title:
The Lewknor Table Carpet
View description:
detail of inscription
Date:
ca. 1562
Date type:
creation
Repository name:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository name variant:
Met, the
Repository location:
New York, New York
Repository_inventory_ number:
Fletcher Fund, 1958 (59.33)
Style_Period:
English Renaissance (British Renaissance style)
Style_Period:
16th century
Style_Period name variant:
Sixteenth century
Style_Period:
Tudor
Subject:
carpets
Subject:
coats of arms
Subject:
fruit (plant components)
Subject:
leaf (plant material)
Subject:
inscriptions
Subject:
borders (ornamnet areas)
Culture:
English
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type:
carpet
Work_type:
tapestries
Material_Technique:
Wool (warp), wool and silk (wefts)
Measurement:
236 x 500 cm
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny
Note:
Carpet commissioned by the Constance Lewknor family. Designed by unknown artists, probably English and Netherlandish; probably woven in Enghien in 1564
Note:
part of "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England" exhibition at MMA
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Duplication rights - Walter Denny
Filename:
WBD_09593.JPG
