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Carved wooden panel

This panel is thought to be from the Merchants' Hall which was destroyed during World War 2. The carving is attributed to Thomas Paty who was an architect and craftsman in Bristol in the mid 1700s.

K6311 (image/tiff)

Summary

: K6311

: Fine Art

: sculpture

: Carved panel from the Merchants' Hall

: PATY, Thomas

: a rococo architectural fragment of carved wood with traces of gilding, showing: motifs of acanthus leaves and flowers; the architect Thomas Paty remodelled the Merchants' Hall, Marsh St, Bristol, in 1783, and this fragment, along with a few others, was saved after the building was destroyed in the Blitz

Carved wooden panel

Current Location

: circa 1783

: circa 1783

: Bequest of Derek Cornwell, 2009.

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