A GEORGE II WHITE MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

細節

A GEORGE II WHITE MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE
The triple breakfront rectangular shelf above a stepped cavetto cornice with lappeted, egg-and-dart and dentilled mouldings, above a breakfront frieze with scrolling acanthus and centred by a shaped cartouche, supported by a pair of draped herm maidens trailing acanthus in front of tapering rectangular jambs, the aperture with an egg-and-dart border, each herm on a later plinth below a tied-ribbon and rosette band, minor restorations
92 in. (234 cm.) wide; 60½ in. (153.5 cm.) high; 11½ in. (29 cm.) deep

來源

Almost certainly supplied to Stephen Croft, Esq. (1712-1798) for Stillington Hall, Yorkshire.
Acquired by a relation of the present owner when Stillington Hall was demolished in 1966.

出版

E. Waterson and P. Meadows, Lost Houses of York and the North Riding, Bridlington, 1990, p. 7 (illustrated in situ in the Drawing-Room).

拍品專文

The richly moulded and dentilled entablature projects above the hermed pilasters and central tablet, which depicts a serpentined cartouche with shell-and-acanthus enrichments festooned with ribbon-tied oak. The acanthus-scrolled frieze terminates in voluted scrolls above tapering pilasters, which are fronted by veil-draped nymph-herms tied with palms and Roman acanthus and terminating in a flowered-ribbon guilloche. The Roman herm pattern, in the manner of Inigo Jones, derives from the Houghton Hall chimneypiece of the 1720s designed by William Kent (d. 1748) and illustrated in F. Hoppus, The Gentleman and Builder's Repository, 1737 (pl. LVI), while the tablet decoration relates to another Hoppus engraving (pl. LII). The chimneypiece is likely to have been commissioned by Stephen Croft (d. 1798) for the Palladian mansion Stillington Hall, that he built in Yorkshire in the mid-18th Century.