This neo-classical statuary marble chimney piece is embellished in the French fashion with golden Siena marble. This is inlaid on its pilasters, framing Grecian Ionic columns, and in the 'antique' flutes of the frieze, where it is arranged in contraposed panels cut from a single block of richly figured marble. The carved frieze tablets, are in the 'Etruscan' style popularised by Robert & James Adam's, Works in Architecture, Vol II, 1779. The central one, depicting an 'arabesque' acanthus-supported vase with foliate scrolls entwined with Bacchic vines, is flanked by similar tablets with urns. The chimney piece typifies the Franco-Grecian style promoted in the 1780's by George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV.