Overdoor Decoration (c. 1675–1677): Art, History and Details

Overdoor Decoration (c. 1675–1677) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This wood carving by Grinling Gibbons, England’s most famous master of this medium, comes from the decoration above a door of the Inner Library at Cassiobury Park, near London, one of the artist’s earliest commissions. Decorative elements from this house were sold after it was pulled down in 1922, but many rooms were photographed before their destruction, and the original location of surviving carvings can thus be identified.

Object facts

• Title: Overdoor Decoration
• Date: c. 1675–1677
• Creator attribution: Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721)
• Culture: England, 17th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: limewood
• Dimensions: Overall: 68.6 x 86.4 cm (27 x 34 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1943.663

Collection credit

Grace Rainey Rogers Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Grinling Gibbons Society, Grinling Gibbons Online, accessed 7/2022.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.