The marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York : a masterpiece of Tudor craftsmanship / edited by Peter N. Lindfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindfield, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, [2023]

Summary:

"The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other equivalent example of secular domestic furniture is known to have survived, and, indeed, precious little woodwork from this period remains outside of ecclesiastical settings. As a tour-de-force of medieval royal woodwork, the bed offers an unprecedented insight into elite domestic furniture from this period. Since its rediscovery, the bed has been subjected to a wide array of investigation by furniture specialists, medieval historians, design historians and scientists. Emerging from a decade-long multidisciplinary research project, this book is the first sustained account of the bed: it shows how numerous disciplines covering the arts and conservation sciences can be brought together to assess and interpret such rare historic survivals. Broken down into thematic chapters, the book explores the bed's form and structure, context, iconography, wood, paint, physical history, provenance - including its curious reproduction by George Shaw in Victorian England - and relationship with known surviving Tudor furniture, as well as Georgian and Victorian Gothic Revival beds. Although thought to be a nineteenth-century fake, this book presents historical, archival and scientific evidence to show, beyond doubt, the bed's late medieval age. Whilst grounded upon research presented at a 2019 conference funded by the Institute of Conservation and held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the book incorporates additional historical and scientific discoveries made since the conference. Written by a range of scientists, historians and specialist researchers, this volume is a multi-disciplinary work of immeasurable value to readers from numerous disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Elizabeth Norton

1. Introduction Peter N. Lindfield

2. Discovery and ConservationIan Coulson

3. Historical Context, Commissioning, and Provenance Peter N. Lindfield and Ian Coulson

4. Iconography and Design: Meaning, Complexity, and Context Peter N. Lindfield

5. Gothic Beds, the Antiques Trade, and Reproduction Peter N. Lindfield

6. Paint Analysis Helen Hughes

7. Dendrochronological Analysis Andy Moir

8. DNA Analysis Hilke Schroeder and Lasse Schindler

9. Afterword

Appendices

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781789257946

1789257948

9781789257939

178925793X

OCLC:

1399168485