About this object
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ID:
75.2
Production date:
Late Medieval; c. 1410
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Location:
In Store
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This carved panel, made of elmwood, is part of the front of a chest - the recess for a lock can be seen top left. It is carved with scenes from the story told by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales as 'The Pardoner's Tale'. Three friends find a hoard of treasure, and fall out over the division of it. The panel shows one buying wine for the others, in which he puts poison; the other two attack him and stab him to death; then they sit down and drink the poisoned wine. The moral of the story is 'radix malorum est cupiditas' - 'greed is the root of evil'. < ...Read more
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Measurements
H 488 mm; W 985 mm; D 35 mm; WT 7 kg (overall)
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Materials
wood; elm
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Last Updated
2024-03-14
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