Unidentified

[title cont'd]....which stand four in full…[subsequent meaning unclear, presumably refers to the four following items]…in the not of Mantua which was made by for the were spoiled or came over upon the said not that were “sharst” to the now Clerk of the Wardrobe not on remembering of the spoil or of the that were of making clean among the whole Banqueting House full of all sort so were paint to restore and other to do all wait

Van der Doort c.1639

Remnant of Mantua piece utterly ruined by mercury...

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 173, № 10
Provenance: 
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Notes: 
spoiled by quicksilver
Room description extended: 
In store at Whitehall in the Passage Room between Banqueting House and Privy Lodgings
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 174
Identification certainty: 
Unknown