Lot 273
  • 273

A George II carrara marble chimney piece mid 18th century

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Description

  • 145.5cm. high, 191.5cm. wide; 4ft. 9 1/4 in., 6ft. 3in.
the moulded inverted breakfront shelf with a lotus leaf carved border above a central tablet with a relief carved tablet of a pastoral scene with putti and sheep, the frieze flanking the tablet with swags of fruit and flowers between a pair of scrolling corbels, the moulded aperture surrounded by a Siena marble slip with bell-flower decorated jambs to the sides

Catalogue Note

The configuration of the present chimney piece with its central tablet flanked by swags of fruit between bold corbels issuing bell flowers closely relates to a design published in Isaac Ware, A Complete Body of Architecture, 1756, pl. 85.  A Chimneypiece in the dining room at Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire by Sir Henry Cheere illustrated in John Physick, Designs for English Sculpture, 1680-1860, 1969, fig. 92, also displays similarities in respect of the carving to the central tablet and the bold fruiting swags which flank it.