THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III STATUARY WHITE AND SIENA MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The later rectangular shelf with moulded edge above a simulated fluted frieze centred by a tablet of an urn flanked by foliage scrolls in a foliage-carved border, on tapering pilasters part stop-fluted and part carved with foliage, headed by patera medallions, on a stepped plinth, the underside of the shelf incised 'L77', with later slate slip, reduced in width by 4 in. (10 cm.) but retaining the inlaid flutes now behind the tablet
Overall: 54 in. (138 cm.) high; 64 in. (162.5 cm.) wide; 10 in. (26 cm.) deep
Aperture: 37 x 32 in. (94 x 81 cm.) inside of later slate slip
39 x 40 in. (99 x 100 cm.) outside of slate slip

Provenance

The Hon. William Lowther (1821-1912) (younger brother of the 3rd Earl of Lonsdale), Campsea Ashe, Suffolk and probably removed by him when the house was rebuilt in the Tudor style, and fitted into a house on the Campsea Ashe estate.

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Lot Essay

The elegant chimneypiece, appropriate for a dining-room, is designed in the George III 'Roman' fashion of the 1780s. A bacchic urn is displayed amongst flowered acanthus in the tablet of the frieze, which is antique fluted with golden sienna marble, while libation patterae are displayed in tablets above the projecting taper-hermed pilasters, which display festive bacchic thyrsae on antique-fluted altar-plinths.
CAMPSEA ASHE
Campsea Ashe High House was a late 16th century house that was enlarged in the early 18th century when the wings and a grand marble entrance or 'banqueting' hall were added. The house was remodelled by Anthony Salvin (1799-1881) circa 1870 using much of the original structure and interior and purchased in 1883 by the Hon. William Lowther from the Sheppard family, owners of the estate since 1648.

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