Lot 108
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A STATUARY AND SIENA MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE, of Adam style, the rectangular shelf with a moulded and dentil edge, above a frieze with projecting centre panel carved with a triumphant urn and husk festoons, above flutes and five oval paterae, the jambs each surmounted by an oval, above a tapering fluted pilaster, headed by egg-and-dart with two rams' heads and husk festoons, on block foot, the hearth with moulded ingrounds 70½in. (179cm.) wide; 56¾in. (144cm.) high; 8½in. (21.5cm.) deep

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A STATUARY AND SIENA MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE, of Adam style, the rectangular shelf with a moulded and dentil edge, above a frieze with projecting centre panel carved with a triumphant urn and husk festoons, above flutes and five oval paterae, the jambs each surmounted by an oval, above a tapering fluted pilaster, headed by egg-and-dart with two rams' heads and husk festoons, on block foot, the hearth with moulded ingrounds 70½in. (179cm.) wide; 56¾in. (144cm.) high; 8½in. (21.5cm.) deep
the hearth opening: 44in. (112cm.) wide; 42in. (106.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Designed in the George III 'antique' manner, it's 'herm' pilasters capped by husk-bearing bacchic ram-masks and frieze tablet of a husk-festooned sacred-urn flanked by Apollo-sunflower paterae, derive from the 'Etruscan' style illustarted by Robert and James Adam, in their, Works in Architecture, 1774

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