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Medieaval Irish furniture

  • 08-01-2018 8:31pm
    #1
    robp
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    Hi, I am looking for experts in mediaeval Irish furniture. I am looking for advice from someone with an archaeological or museum background rather than an antique dealer, who might have a very different and more commercial perspective. Is there anyone out there with this background? Maybe someone might have done a thesis on mediaeval Irish furniture?


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  • #2
    mocmo
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭mocmo


    Not sure if there is an expert on specifically medieval furniture, nor have I ever come across a thesis on such but that said it could have been studied as an art history or history topic.

    Claudia Kinmonth is probably the best known expert on traditional Irish furniture many pieces of which have early origins, but most publications on the subject tend to start around the 1600s/1700s. Her books are great though.

    Have you tried contacting the NMI? They may well have a few in house experts, especially in Turlough Park. Otherwise I know the few archaeological wood working specialists do occasionally record furniture components and might be worth contacting.


  • #3
    robp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭robp


    mocmo wrote: »
    Not sure if there is an expert on specifically medieval furniture, nor have I ever come across a thesis on such but that said it could have been studied as an art history or history topic.

    Claudia Kinmonth is probably the best known expert on traditional Irish furniture many pieces of which have early origins, but most publications on the subject tend to start around the 1600s/1700s. Her books are great though.

    Have you tried contacting the NMI? They may well have a few in house experts, especially in Turlough Park. Otherwise I know the few archaeological wood working specialists do occasionally record furniture components and might be worth contacting.

    Thanks a million. It really helps. Realistically an expert in 1600s material is just as useful.


  • #4
    mocmo
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭mocmo


    I forgot to add that publications of large wooden assemblages i.e Late Viking Age and Medieval Waterford: Excavations 1986-1992 usually contain a few items of furniture, and outside Ireland (but very similar material) Carole Morris's Craft, industry and everyday life: wood and woodworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval York, Volume 17 or Wood Use in Medieval Novgorod by Mark Brisbane, Jon G. Hather are all good resources.


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