| ID: | SDV365381 |
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| Title: | The Polychrome-Decorated Plank-and-Muntin Screen at Marker's Cottage, Broadclyst, Devon, and its Context |
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| Originator: | Sinclair, E. + Richardson, I. |
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| Date: | 2015 |
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| Summary: | Paintings have been discovered on the screen separating the hall from the parlour of Marker’s Cottage, a three-room and cross-passage house of late medieval date. The character and structural history of the house are described. The paintings’ early date (circa 1520-50) and their combination of religious and secular themes make them unique in a vernacular context. This paper relates them to other examples of painting on domestic West Country screens and to some contemporary work on church rood screens. Basic analysis has demonstrated that a more expensive and elaborate range of pigments was used than is apparent from visual examination. |
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