DOI Heft:
No. 257 (September 1914)
DOI Artikel:The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1914
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0312
The National Competition of Schools of A rt, IQ14
cases the authorisations were signed by
the head master of the school and were
on that account not accepted by the
authorities of the Board of Education.
W. T. Whitley.
At the Victoria and Albert Museum
an opportunity is now afforded to
students of Old English Furniture of
observing one of the best-known speci-
mens extant of the Pre-Reformation
Period. Mr. F. Harris Mitchell, of
Chard, has lent to the Museum the
famous Gothic Bench, for many years
in the " Green Dragon " Inn, at Combe
St. Nicholas, Somerset ; and this is now
exhibited in the Department of Wood-
work, in Room No. 21, near the Exhi-
bition Road entrance. This bench has
long been known to connoisseurs, and
was illustrated, in 1859, in Parker's
lit~ . . ,.. . „ . ,„ design for lack doily. by elizabeth anglin (crawford
"Domestic Architecture m England." technical institute, cork)
The wood-cut in this work, in spite of
its bad drawing, shows that an im-
portant detail of decoration has been lost since inn, but probably had its first home in the re-
Parker's day, viz., the figure of an angel bearing a fectory of some monastic establishment. The
shield, which formerly constituted the terminal of table, with a Gothic arcaded frieze, had also dis-
the curious overhanging beam on the left side of appeared before Mr. Fred. Roe made the drawing
the bench, and, if preserved, might have afforded of the bench for his work on Old Oak Furniture,
a clue to the origin of the bench. It can hardly In spite of this mutilation and loss, the fine pro-
have been made in the first place for a small village portion and execution of the linen-fold back and
other details give this piece of furniture a
special value to students. It has been
set up against a background of linen-fold
panelling, and adjacent to a Gothic
window-frame in oak, from Hadleigh,
Essex, recently presented to the museum
by Mr. A. H. Fass, while other appro-
priate furniture is placed in the neigh-
bourhood. The English, French and
Gothic woodwork has now all been re-
arranged in this Gallery where it can be
seen to better advantage than in its
former situation. In Room 52 is also dis-
played a recent purchase of considerable
interest, a quantity of plaster work,
decorated in grisaille, which was acquired
for the Museum from an old house in
Kent. _
The Trustees of the National Gallery
have appointed Mr. C. H. Collins Baker
Keeper and Secretary of the Gallerv in
design for damask serviette. by robert i). burt r ' .
(lauder technical college, Dunfermline) place of Mr. Hawes Turner, retired.
292
cases the authorisations were signed by
the head master of the school and were
on that account not accepted by the
authorities of the Board of Education.
W. T. Whitley.
At the Victoria and Albert Museum
an opportunity is now afforded to
students of Old English Furniture of
observing one of the best-known speci-
mens extant of the Pre-Reformation
Period. Mr. F. Harris Mitchell, of
Chard, has lent to the Museum the
famous Gothic Bench, for many years
in the " Green Dragon " Inn, at Combe
St. Nicholas, Somerset ; and this is now
exhibited in the Department of Wood-
work, in Room No. 21, near the Exhi-
bition Road entrance. This bench has
long been known to connoisseurs, and
was illustrated, in 1859, in Parker's
lit~ . . ,.. . „ . ,„ design for lack doily. by elizabeth anglin (crawford
"Domestic Architecture m England." technical institute, cork)
The wood-cut in this work, in spite of
its bad drawing, shows that an im-
portant detail of decoration has been lost since inn, but probably had its first home in the re-
Parker's day, viz., the figure of an angel bearing a fectory of some monastic establishment. The
shield, which formerly constituted the terminal of table, with a Gothic arcaded frieze, had also dis-
the curious overhanging beam on the left side of appeared before Mr. Fred. Roe made the drawing
the bench, and, if preserved, might have afforded of the bench for his work on Old Oak Furniture,
a clue to the origin of the bench. It can hardly In spite of this mutilation and loss, the fine pro-
have been made in the first place for a small village portion and execution of the linen-fold back and
other details give this piece of furniture a
special value to students. It has been
set up against a background of linen-fold
panelling, and adjacent to a Gothic
window-frame in oak, from Hadleigh,
Essex, recently presented to the museum
by Mr. A. H. Fass, while other appro-
priate furniture is placed in the neigh-
bourhood. The English, French and
Gothic woodwork has now all been re-
arranged in this Gallery where it can be
seen to better advantage than in its
former situation. In Room 52 is also dis-
played a recent purchase of considerable
interest, a quantity of plaster work,
decorated in grisaille, which was acquired
for the Museum from an old house in
Kent. _
The Trustees of the National Gallery
have appointed Mr. C. H. Collins Baker
Keeper and Secretary of the Gallerv in
design for damask serviette. by robert i). burt r ' .
(lauder technical college, Dunfermline) place of Mr. Hawes Turner, retired.
292