Carved Bressumer
Carved Bressumer
Carved Bressumer
Carved Bressumer
Carved Bressumer

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The bressumer rests on the Doric pier of the doorway and a bracket between the first and second floors .It once extended further along the building. The decoration is a variation on a Roman type of the animals with heads ending in tendrils. This was found in the Cryptoportique of Nero?s Domus Aurea in Rome and became a standard feature of Italian Renaissance decoration at the end of the fifteenth century. Here it frames roundels with three profile heads - two male one female. 
Title

Carved Bressumer

Date

c.1540

Medium

wood

Accession number

IP20_RHT_S702

Work type

Building

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Listing date

26/11/76

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at all times

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Located at

The Ancient House, The Thoroughfare, Harleston

IP20 9AU

On the front of the building.