Rectangular wooden panel with carved openwork design. [EH [OPS Move] 10/7/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Rectangular wooden panel with carved openwork design. [EH [OPS Move] 10/7/2017]
Long description: Rectangular wooden panel with carved openwork design, consisting of two circles each with square with concavely curved sides and cut out lenticular sections inside. Several drilled holes on the reverse of the panel. Metal bolt at one corner, and wooden dowels passing through the long edges. [EH [OPS Move] 10/7/2017]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Bretagne St Servan
Cultural groups: French
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected: ?Prior to 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Openwork, Process Drilled, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 360 mm, Width: max 176 mm, Depth: max 15 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.67.138 PR no.: 161/ Ag 9014
Research and responses: This object could have been obtained by Pitt Rivers during his visits to Brittany in October - November 1878 and March - April 1879. He stayed in France during the intervening winter. During the 1878 visit to Brittany he spent the majority of his time around Carnac. [Bowden, 1991: 86-7][Chapman, 1981: 410-2] [Thompson, 1977: 61]. There are a large number of unmatched entries for carved wood panels in the Gren book - see PR Catalogue Part II for further information [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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