A rare 15th century carved oak angel mount or corbel, South-West England


Modelled with peaked head-dress atop shoulder-length hair, wearing robes and holding a shield in oversize hands, inked paper label to reverse reading 'Roof Angel / Date probably 15th century / from / North Liew [sic] Church / Devon.', 11cm wide x 6cm deep x 30cm high, (4in wide x 2in deep x 11 1/2in high)
|Provenance:Handwritten label to rear, reputedly from the Parish Church of Northlew DevonRoger Warner, The High Street Burford, OxfordshireSold Christie's, 'The Roger Warner Collection', 20 - 21 January 2009, Lot 44The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury in Northlew, Devon, was substantially rebuilt in the 15th and early part of the 16th centuries. A bench-end is carved with the name William Kelly - one of the church's major benefactors - and the date 1537.