id:			123424
accession number:	1943.654
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.654
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:57.374000

Overmantel Decoration, c. 1675–77. Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721). Lindenwood; part 1: 69.3 x 178.4 cm (27 5/16 x 70 1/4 in.); part 2: 164.5 x 27.3 cm (64 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.); part 3: 177.8 x 26.7 cm (70 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.654

title:				Overmantel Decoration
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creation date:			c. 1675–77
creation date earliest:		1675
creation date latest:		1677
current location:		203A British Painting and Decorative Arts
creditline:			Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
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culture:	England, 17th century (Charles II)
technique:	lindenwood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721)  - artist

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measurements: Part 1: 69.3 x 178.4 cm (27 5/16 x 70 1/4 in.); Part 2: 164.5 x 27.3 cm (64 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.); Part 3: 177.8 x 26.7 cm (70 x 10 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink
	opening date:   1983-07-26T04:00:00
	<i>Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 26-October 9, 1983).

	title:		British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)
	opening date:   2020-06-30T04:00:00
	<i>British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'No legacy exhibitions.', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Esterly, David. <em>Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving</em>. London: V&amp;A Publishing, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned P 183, cat. no. 115
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=862221831

	Wilcop, Mary, Karen Bishop, Beth M. Edelstein, Colleen Snyder, and Marcus Brathwaite. "Tilia and Tilt-A-Jet: Abrasive Jet-machining Towards the Treatment and Re-mounting of a Grinling Gibbons Overmantel. <em>Wooden Artifacts Group Postprints (</em>2018).
	page number: 	pp. 51-65
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	"Conservation. 17th Century Meets 21st: To restore a 17th-century wood carving and simplify its installation in the new British gallery. conservators collaborated with CWRU Sears think[box].” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 38-39.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 38; Mentioned: P. 38-39.
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	Grinling Gibbons Society, <em>Grinling Gibbons Online, </em>accessed 7/2022.
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	url:		https://grinling-gibbons.org/artworks/overmantel-decoration/

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