Roundelay / roundel / plate

Description

Part of a set of fourteen sycamore roundels or plates with painted and printed decoration, used at an entertainment given by Sir George Bruce of Carnock for King James VI: English, 1570 - 1620

Museum reference

K.1999.528 G

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Roundelay / roundel / plate

Production information

England, Northern Europe

Date

1570 - 1620

Materials

Sycamore wood

Physical description

Sycamore; paint; circular; printed decoration

Associations

Sir George Bruce of Carnock
James VI and I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland, 1566 - 1625
James Boswell
Union of the Crowns
Auchinleck (Auchinleck House), Ayrshire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Malahide Castle

References

A.H. Churchman, Some Minor Art, 1894

J.Y. Akerman, Archaeologia, Vol. xxxiv (1851), pp. 225 - 230

Owen Evans-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, 1932