Designed in the George III antique/gothic manner of the 1780s the mantelpiece is carved with quatrefoiled-trellis frieze embellished with painted medallions and central tablet. The latter depicts David entertaining King Saul with the harp, while the former, emblematic of profane love are inspired by Francesco Bartalozzi's engravings of the early 1780s after paintings by Angelica Kaufman. One portrays the shepherd Paris with Oenone and is inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, while the other with Damon watching Musidora preparing to bathe is inspired by the lines concerning Summer from James Thomson's, The Seasons, 1730. The same subjects feature on a commode in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, illustrated by Lucy Wood, 'George Brookshaw', Apollo, June 1991, p. 391. Set in the pilasters beneath these medallions are ovoid medallions depicting festive bacchic youths with grapes, tazza and wine-ewer. The placing of the painted scenes relates to chimney-pieces such as that painted by George Brookshaw for the Red Room at Badminton House, Gloucestershire (L. Wood op cit. p.385)