HIERONIMO CUSTODIS Oil on Panel Painting, Portrait of Martin James of Smarden buddhas (1) Width 31 Depth 1

(1) Width 31 Depth 1 Height 24

this antique piece was used by the Namboodhiri as a table for health practices

With wrought iron floral and scroll details

5 Height 14

Indistinct touchmark (handle)

HIERONIMO CUSTODIS Oil on Panel Painting, Portrait of Martin James of Smarden buddhas (1) Width 31 Depth 1DETAILS An antique, half length portrait of a gentleman standing beside a table with his hand resting on a skull. He wears a traditional black doublet with a white ruff collar and long gold chain necklace. The sitter is Martin (Martyn) James, Esq. (1530 93) of Smarden, Kent. With a coat of arms in the upper left corner. STYLE Renaissance Elizabethan Tudor PROVENANCE Glassenbury House (Cranbrook, Kent, England), which was the ancestral home of Sir