CIRCA 1820

Details

A SET OF FOUR REGENCY SCAGLIOLA 'SIENA MARBLE' IONIC COLUMNS
CIRCA 1820
Of slightly tapering form topped with ionic capitals on moulded plinths and black marble bases, restorations to the plaster capitals and plinths
Each 89 in. (226 cm.) high

Provenance

Probably supplied to Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard Bt. (d. 1821) or his second son Thomas, 2nd Bt. (d.1848) for Crakemarsh Hall, Uttoxeter, Staffs.

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Lot Essay

Crakemarsh Hall, near Uttoxeter, was the seat of Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard, Bt. (d.1848). Nikolaus Pevsner in the 1950s described Crakemarsh as a `compact two story stucco villa circa 1820, …. all very quiet and modest ; and a surprise to find that the house seems to have been built (or possibly re-built) around a sumptuous 17th century staircase’. The columns formed a screen in the dining-room and by 1968 when the estate was sold by Bagshaw and Knight Frank and Rutley, the scagliola had been covered with layers of white paint.

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