Overmantel
- Description
- An ‘overmantel’ was a decorative panel above a fireplace. At the centre of this panel is an image of the sun with a face, surrounded by scrolls with two cherubs above. It was salvaged from a bedroom in the farm in the 1980s.
- Accession Loan No.
- 309/1988
- Collection Class
- Architectural fragments
- Common Name
- overmantel
- Simple Name
- overmantel
- Dimensions
- whole W 1050 mm; whole height 720 mm; whole depth 50 mm
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1640
- Production Year High
- 1660
- Family Group
- Material
- plaster
- Collection Site Name
- Great Moor Farm, Sowton
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
