IN THE MANNER OF JOHN CARR, CIRCA 1775

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A GEORGE III WHITE AND SIENA MARBLE CHIMMEYPIECE
In the manner of John Carr, circa 1775
The molded and beaded mantle above a Siena marble Greek-key and dentil-carved frieze with a central plaque with urn and bellflower swags, the jambs with Ionic capitals headed by urns, flanking the molded aperture
57¼in. (145cm.) high, 76¾in. (195cm.) wide, 12¼in. (31cm.) deep, 40in. (102cm.) height of aperture, 46in. (117cm.) width of aperture

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 October 1998, lot 350 ($38,000).

Lot Essay

A chimneypiece almost certainly designed by John Carr of York (d.1807) and supplied to Byram Hall Yorkshire displays the same key-pattern frieze executed in contrasting verde antico marble and neoclassical tablets.

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