LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY AFTER DESIGNS BY JAMES WYATT

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A GEORGE III STATUARY AND SIENA MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE
LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY AFTER DESIGNS BY JAMES WYATT
The frieze with dot inlaid radiating fluted paterae centred by relief carved tablet with an urn and bell-flower swags, flanked by urn carved blocks above pilasters with bell-flower pendants to the jambs
63 ¾ in. (162 cm.) high; 81 ½ in. (207 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep; the opening -- 47 in. (119.5 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide

Provenance

Sandbanks, Dorset. By Repute, installed in the house by the Reverend H.G Watkins who brought it from London at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Lot Essay

This statuary and siena marble chimneypiece is closely related to two chimneypieces almost certainly designed by James Wyatt (d. 1813) for Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, in the Library and the Study, specifically the latter. (Country Life Magazine; March 7, 1996; p72) The architect for this Palladian Mansion was Robert Hooke (d. 1703), who designed and built it in 1679-83 for Edward Conway, 1st
Earl of Conway (d. 1683). The property was later completed and altered by James Gibbs (d. 1754) in the mid-eighteenth Century, before undergoing a significant extension and lavish refurbishment by Wyatt c. 1778-1783. (John Martin Robinson; James Wyatt Architect to George III; Yale University Press, New Haven; 2012; p344-345).

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