History of Wall Panelling in Interior Design Periods |
Late Tudor Interiors c.1558 - 1603 |
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Late Tudor (Fragment only) The purely geometric design with tiny fleur-de-lys and Tudor Roses shown in the illustration opposite, repeats these two motifs only in very low relief, the plaster covering to the beams follows the line of the original moulding in the wooden oak beam underneath. This example, taken from an old house in Worcestershire, shows clearly how the early carver used his skill to decorate the existing features of a ceiling with two large casts and two or three smaller ones. Of the wall panelling, wainscot and panelled door of this time there is considerable variety, but many of these are no longer in their original position. The main features about the Elizabethan door made it `old-fashioned' within half-a-century-such features were its narrowness and lack of height.
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