‘Summer’ – Slate platter with lettering;
Grinling Gibbons and his love of music – Lisi Ashbridge reveals her hand cut letters.
Gibbons had a great love for, and knowledge of, music. This is a slate platter with words from a musical score from the Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell – carved on the left hand side book of Gibbon’s ‘musical trophy’ in the dining room at Petworth House.
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