LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE III PAINTED AND GILTWOOD CHIMNEYPIECE
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Redecorated
63in. (160cm.) high; 78½in. (199.4cm.) wide; 8¼in. (21cm.) deep; the opening -- 50 x 55in. (127 x 139.7cm.)

Provenance

Stubbers, North Ockendon, Essex. (Demolished 1960).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This elegant chimney-piece is likely to have been commissioned by William Russell for his Drawing Room at Stubbers, Essex at the time that he was employing the architect Sir Humphrey Repton (d.1818) in the mid 1790s.

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