HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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symbols of faith, the anbho, and eucharistic ewer, and purity, the
lily. An interesting panel to the right of the altar(Plate 115), which
is in the shape of a doorway, with a segmental headed tympanum containing
large putti heads, supporting trailing festoona of flowers is almost
identical to plate 177 of the'First Book of Architecture by Andrea
Palladio Translated out of Italian with an Appendix Touching Doors
& Windows by pr le Muet, Architect to the French King.' An English
edition was published in London in 1683, but it is more probable that
Tabary was familiar with the original French edition which came out
in i6 146. The exact function of this particular panel is obsctre; it is
rather extroardinary that a doorway should be imposed flat against the
wall; possibly it was used to frame a painting, or further carving;
possibly Tabary was following the pattern book without questioning the
purpose of the design, Tabary was also responsible for the rails and
altar table(aate 116)both of which still survive, but felt that he
was not sufficiently well paid for his trouble as the minutes of the
Royal Hospital record,
'Whereas James Tabarick Carver sett forth in his Petition, that he was no
allowed the full value of his worke in carving framing and setting up
the flar-piece. Rayle, Pannell and Table in the Chapell of the
Hospitall it did appear by the Certificate of Mr.Robinson his Maty
Surveyr that the said Altarpiece as it then was fixt was valued at
two hundred and fifty pounds, wch he declaring to be the full value
thereof, according to the best of his Judgement unlesse the said
Tabarict should add other workes thereto ' qhch was intended Ordered that
the said Two hundred and fifty pounds be allowed the said c& ver as
the present worth of the said worke, and that if any other etbellishment
should be added hereafter, that the same shall be payd for according to
the vallue thereof.E
No other works by the Tabary brothers have yet come to light in
Ireland or in England,but as mentioned above, there is a possibility
that their work is hiding under the guise of one of the better known
names such as Gibbons. Louis Tabary certainly returned to England
as he entered the French Hospital in February, 173O/31.
Some very fine carving in the York area which dates from the
1720 's, points to the presence of a skilled craftsman working in the
French tradition, and may well be the work of a Huguenot craftsman,