A grey-veined and statuary marble chimney-piece

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A grey-veined and statuary marble chimney-piece
The rectangular breakfront shelf with a moulded edge, above a frieze centred with a tablet carved in high relief with a mask and hung with ribbon-tied drapery, flanked to each side with panels of scrolling foliage, the jambs each headed by an acanthus-carved volute and a shell, above a fielded rectangular panel carved with husks, with deeply-moulded hearth return and plain outer rim
95in. (241.3cm.) wide; 64in. (162.5cm.) high; 11½in. (29cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This chimney-piece, with its Roman acanthus-scrolled frieze centred by a veil-draped vestal head tablet and its husk-festooned pilasters surmounted by acanthus-wrapped trusses displaying Venus's scallop-shell badge, relates to patterns in the Palladian or 'antique' manner, illustrated in Isaac Ware's Complete Body of Architecture, 1756.

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