A George III statuary marble chimneypiece tablet

Such bacchinales were supplied by the Hyde Park sculptor Henry Cheere (d.1781), for whom they may have been modelled by William Collins (d.1793) (J.Physick Designs for English Sculpture, London, 1969, p.128). The same patterned tablet appears on a George III chimneypiece at Polesden Lacey, Surrey, where it is likely to have been introduced by Messrs White Allom & Co. in the early 20th century (C. Rowell Polesden Lacey, 1999, p.60).