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Gothic/Classical 1520s English bedpost at the V&A

Saw this item in the British galleries yesterday. Interesting combination of the old and the new, and very prominent are the roundels at mid-post.

Not visible from the photograph are the posts capitals. The upper one is not carved at all (the V&A speculate the carver was to begin a classical one but gave up!), whereas the bottom one, whilst remaining square in X-section, is decorated with Gothic tracery.

Hard to discern are whether the roundels are all'antica or not. I believe at least one of the portraits is wearing a Greco-Roman helmet... the others I'm not so sure.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80447/bedpost/

Holbein design for chimneypiece

Seen at V&A's Horace Walpole exhibition. Features two roundels with antique busts.

Lent from BM:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=720874&partid=1&IdNum=1854%2c0708.1&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database%2fmuseum_no__provenance_search.aspx

1520's Roman-influenced painting at Romsey Abbey

Saw this retable at the weekend, the photos aren't great but you can just about make out Roman candelabras in between each of the saints