BY THOMASON OF CUDWORTH, DATED 2000, THE 'PYRAMUS & THISBE' TABLET AFTER A DESIGN BY SIR HENRY CHEERE

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AN ENGLISH STONEWARE CHIMNEYPIECE
BY THOMASON OF CUDWORTH, DATED 2000, THE 'PYRAMUS & THISBE' TABLET AFTER A DESIGN BY SIR HENRY CHEERE
The break-front shelf above a frieze modelled in high relief with a pastoral scene, the jamb caps with oak trees above plain outset columns and block feet, with impressed stamps to the jamb blocks 'THOMASON/EXCUDIT MM', with a 19th century cast iron grate insert
50in. (127cm.) high; 42in. (106.7cm.) wide; 9¼in. (23.5cm.) deep; the opening -- 32 x 16in. (81.3 x 40.6cm.); the hearth -- 68in. (172.7cm.) wide; 16¾in. (42.5cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Philip Thomason's Cudworth workshop has specialised for over twenty years in architectural stoneware. This chimneypiece was privately commissioned as a one-off model, executed in the manner of Eleanor Coade's Lambeth manufactory and incorporating the unusual tablet and frieze inspired by the work of the mid 18th century workshop of Sir Henry Cheere (1703-81).
The 'rococo-pastoral' tablet copies a design by Cheere, number twenty-four, amongst a group of twenty-eight watercolour and ink designs by Cheere (V.& A. prints and drawings archive, D.715 (13)-1887).

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