Lot 739
739
A CARVED STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE, the breakfront shelf with a moulded, acanthus-carved edge, above an egg-and-dart border, the frieze centred by a mask flanked by drapery swags, the jambs each decorated with pendant drapery emerging from a rosette and terminating in a tassel, on a block foot, the opening with egg-and-dart border (chips; some egg-and-dart moulding replaced; restorations; some staining)

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A CARVED STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE, the breakfront shelf with a moulded, acanthus-carved edge, above an egg-and-dart border, the frieze centred by a mask flanked by drapery swags, the jambs each decorated with pendant drapery emerging from a rosette and terminating in a tassel, on a block foot, the opening with egg-and-dart border (chips; some egg-and-dart moulding replaced; restorations; some staining)
78in. (198cm.) wide; 63in. (160cm.) high; 9in. (23cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This pattern of 'Palladian' chimneypiece, embellished with the mask of Vesta, the goddess associated with the hearth and fire, featured amongst the designs of Inigo Jones (d. 1652) in the possesion of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (d. 1753). It was engraved in Isaac Ware's, Designs of Inigo Jones and Others, 1733. A version of this, by the architect William Kent (d. 1748), was adopted by Burlington for his Chiswick villa bedroom apartment, whose ceiling depicted a female figure emblematic of the Art of Architecture.

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