AN EARLY GEORGE II WHITE STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE

ATTRIBUTED TO DANIEL HARVEY (HERVÉ), THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES GIBBS

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AN EARLY GEORGE II WHITE STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE
Attributed to Daniel Harvey (Hervé), the design attributed to James Gibbs
The rectangular shelf above a stiff-leaf and acanthus covered egg-and-dart moulded cornice, the fluted frieze supported by channelled, S-scrolled corbelled jams flanked by a plain reveal, on block plinths
66¾in. (169.5cm.) wide; 52 3/8in. (134cm.) high; 8¾in. (deep)
The aperture 43in. (109.5cm.) wide; 40¾in. (104cm.) high

來源

Supplied circa 1725 to Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1627-1739) for Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire.
Thence by descent at Wentworth until 1951, when it was removed by Major and Mrs. Vernon-Wentworth to Blackheath Mansion, Suffolk.

拍品專文

This chimneypiece was almost certainly carved by the emigré Mason Daniel Harvey (Hervé) (d.1737). The only specialist carver among the five craftsmen recorded in the Wentworth accounts (Brit. Lib. (Wentworth) Strafford Add. Mss. 22239 F 128), Harvey was employed at Wentworth as early as 1720 when he was required to supply '4 capitals after ye Corinthian order'. Born in France, Harvey had already worked for the architect James Gibbs at the Octagon House, Twickenham, interestingly alongside the joiner Charles Griffiths, who was later responsible for the 'wainscott [of] The Gallery at Stainborough (Wentworth Castle) as Desined by Mr Gibbs'.
A closely related chimneypiece was supplied to James Tyrrell for the saloon at Shotover Park, Oxfordshire, which was completed circa 1718 (illustrated in J. Lees-Milne, op. cit., p. 257, fig. 415).