CIRCA 1865

Details

A Victorian statuary marble chimneypiece
Circa 1865
The winged caryatids flanking the frieze with floral bouquet and C-scrolls
58½ in. (148.5 cm.) high, 87 in. (221 cm.) wide, 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep; the opening -- 43 in. (109 cm.) high, 49½ in. (125.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The elegantly serpentined chimneypiece, with rose-centred floral cartouche, is designed in the French/antique manner that was revived in the 1830s as the Louis Quatorze style. Its herm-trussed pilasters terminate in acanthus-wrapped volutes and support winged and garlanded busts of Aurora, Homers rosy-fingered dawn-deity and sister of the sun-deity Apollo.

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