DESIGNED BY THOMAS JECKYLL, CIRCA 1875
Details
The Edward Green overmantel
Designed by Thomas Jeckyll, circa 1875
Green-stained with parcel-gilt borders, the graduated open shelves supported on ring-turned columns, the upper tier fitted with six Japanese painted lacquer panels, above a bevelled rectangular mirror plate flanked by four fielded panels, above a convex circular mirror plate flanked to either side by white statuary marble roundels, by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm,) depicting relief busts, one inscribed Francis William Green, age 11yrs, 1872, the other Edward Lycett Green, age 12yrs, 1872, each signed Boehm Fect. by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, the lower tier fitted with six roundels inset with Chinese blue and white porcelain panels depicting figures in various landscapes, possibly Kangxi
72in. (183cm.) wide, 56in. (142cm.) high
Designed by Thomas Jeckyll, circa 1875
Green-stained with parcel-gilt borders, the graduated open shelves supported on ring-turned columns, the upper tier fitted with six Japanese painted lacquer panels, above a bevelled rectangular mirror plate flanked by four fielded panels, above a convex circular mirror plate flanked to either side by white statuary marble roundels, by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm,) depicting relief busts, one inscribed Francis William Green, age 11yrs, 1872, the other Edward Lycett Green, age 12yrs, 1872, each signed Boehm Fect. by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, the lower tier fitted with six roundels inset with Chinese blue and white porcelain panels depicting figures in various landscapes, possibly Kangxi
72in. (183cm.) wide, 56in. (142cm.) high
Exhibited
The Fine Art Society, The Aesthetic Movement and the Cult of Japan, 1972 No. 293