Tudor Linenfold Panel

The two panels, with elaborately scrolled decoration – to imitate the folds of stacked linen – set within a moulded framework. The top and bottom rails, which retain the original tenons.

These tenons, together with tell-tale marks to the back, would suggest this was made as a front of a small chest. 

English, circa 1540.

Width 20 inches by height 17 inches.

Ref 572