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Culture:English (probably)
Title:silent companion; dummy board; chantourne
Date Made:18th century
Type:Household Accessory
Materials:wood: ash, chestnut (possibly), paint
Place Made:United Kingdom; England (probably)
Accession Number:  HD 58.174
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of pair of painted wooden silent companions or dummy boards - this one of Sir Waler Raleigh in court dress. Dummy boards were painted on flat boards, and designed to stand in dimly lit rooms. These could be whimsical and deceptive amusements in the Netherlands, England, and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Made from a slow-growing ring-porus hardwood, possibly ash or chestnut. In French these items were known as chantourne, or cut-outs.

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