Wall Paneling & Wainscoting · Tudor & Tudor Revival
Oak Paneling from a House on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth (c. 1600)
A complete room of oak paneling from about 1600, from a merchant's house on the Hall Quay in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, now at the Metropolitan Museum.
Design characteristics
This paneling, about 24 feet square and nearly 10 feet high, shows an Elizabethan or early Jacobean room as a merchant might have known it: walls of small oak panels, a carved frieze and an ornamented chimneypiece. Rooms like this were removed from English houses and sold to American collectors in the early 1900s, and they influenced how Tudor Revival interiors were designed here. It remains a clear, practical model for a paneled study or library.
Classification
- Category
- Wall Paneling & Wainscoting
- Material
- Oak
- Motifs
- Small square panel, Carved frieze
- Date
- ca. 1600
- Recorded medium
- Oak
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9 ft. 7 in. × 24 ft. 6 in. × 24 ft. 6 in. (292.1 × 746.8 × 746.8 cm)
- Evidence
- Documented historical object
Architectural context
Dark oak paneling, linenfold, strapwork and heavy plank doors. England · original c. 1485–1603; revival c. 1890–1940.
