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A RARE AND DOCUMENTED TUDOR IRON BOUND OAK TRAPEZIUM SHAPED ...

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114 - A RARE AND DOCUMENTED TUDOR IRON BOUND OAK TRAPEZIUM SHAPED STRONG BOX, ANGLO/FLEMISH, CORBY CASTLE,...

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A RARE AND DOCUMENTED TUDOR IRON BOUND OAK TRAPEZIUM SHAPED STRONG BOX, ANGLO/FLEMISH, CORBY CASTLE, CARLISLE, CIRCA 1550-1600. The oak and wrought iron bound strong-box or standard, retaining original grey/blue polychrome, having a twin section hinged lid with multiple scroll interlaced iron work flanked by side frames with fourteen helmeted heads. The front with large scrolls, elaborate hasp, lock and carrying handle. The tapered sides clad with horizontal and vertical iron banding, the rear of narrow tapering form with further scrollwork and carrying handle, retaining original 19th century exhibition label, the twin compartment interior with elaborate wrought metalware, one section originally with separate locking compartment, 65cm wide and 36cm high Note - These trapezia shaped standards or strong-boxes are thought to have been shaped for greater strength and to enable secure storage when travelling. York Minster has a virtually identical one. The Victoria and Albert Museum early metalware department has one on display. Provenance - Corby Castle, Wetheral, Carlisle, Cumbria. Phillips house contents sale 18 May, 1994. Property of Lord Howard. With 19th century Exhibition label, Museum Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857. Contributed by Phillip Howard Esq. The Art Treasures of Great Britain was an exhibition of fine art held in Manchester England, from 5 May to 17 October 1857. It remains the largest art exhibition to be held in the UK, possibly in the world, with over 16,000 works on display. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The idea for a uniquely northern British art exhibition came from numerous wealthy Manchester businessmen as a celebration of Manchester achieving city status in 1853, inspired by the Great Exhibition in London of 1851. It was to be an exhibition of art and antiquities rather than of industrial manufacturing and funding of £74,000 (equivalent to over £7 million today) was sourced, with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert providing Royal Patronage.

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+ Calendar 2025-03-19 11:00:00 2025-03-19 23:59:59 Europe/London The Beedham Collection Part II The Beedham family has been collecting early oak furniture and related works of art for over 70 years, however, the origins of this collection goes even further back. Historically, the Beedham family ran pubs in the South Yorkshire area for over 250 years and in former times it was custom and practice that an incoming pub landlord would take over the whole of the items in the establishment from the previous landlord. It was in this way the Beedham Collection really started. Herbert Beedham, my father, was the first of the family to leave the public house trade and he started up his own Antique business, and brought to the business a wealth of furniture and objects which had been passed down by the family over many years. Herbert had a great passion for early items and would regularly visit the antique and ‘junk’ shops of Sheffield, coming back, much to my mother’s dismay, with yet more antiques and collectables. It was during this time he struck up a friendship with the curator of the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield who introduced Herbert to the, at that time, unknown L S Lowry, from whom he subsequently tried desperately and sadly unsuccessfully to buy a painting. Herbert’s greatest passion was to collect Tudor and Elizabethan Manor House furniture and objects. A Daily Telegraph reporter once visited his shop and wrote an article in the paper emphasising the love that he showed for his items, running his hands over the polished surfaces. Beedham Antiques was established in 1974 and moved to Holme Hall in Bakewell Derbyshire a large Grade I listed 15th/16th Manor House (pictured) where many of the privately owned pieces pieces for sale in this collection were displayed in their authentic surroundings. Paul Beedham, Herbert's son, took over the business in 2012 and has proudly celebrated its 50th year anniversary and is carrying on its tradition of supplying the finest Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture to important Manor Houses and collectors. Since our family were great private collectors, many of the pieces on display in the saleroom have not been seen on the market for a number of decades. Beedham Family Bishop & Miller Auctioneers

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