A LARGE VERDE ANTICO AND STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEY-PIECE

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A LARGE VERDE ANTICO AND STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEY-PIECE
In the George III style

The shaped and moulded cornice enriched with a bead-and-reel string, the verde antico frieze centred by a Bacchic tablet and flanked by flowered tablets, supported above pilasters with voluted-truss tablets garlanded with fruit and flowers and incorporating Bacchic ram-heads bearing further ribbon-tied garlands, on block feet
89in. (216cm.) wide; 69¾in. (177.2cm.) high; 13¾in. (35cm.) deep the hearth opening: 52in. (132cm.) wide; 50in. (127cm.) high

Provenance

By repute, The Hill, Hampstead, home of the celebrated collector William Lever, later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (d.1925).

Lot Essay

The tablet of a ram accompanied by youths celebrating the vintage derives in part from François Duquesnoy's relief in the Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome and relates to plaques by the sculptor William Collins (d.1793). Amongst related chimney-pieces are one sold from Bowcliffe Hall, Yorkshire (Christie's New York, 17 October 1992, lot 341) and one at Saltram House, Devon (see C. Hussey, English Country House, Mid-Georgian, London, 1956, p.128, fig 2460).

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