A GEORGE III PINE CHIMNEYPIECE

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A GEORGE III PINE CHIMNEYPIECE
Of large proportions, the bolection moulded rectangular mantel with foliage carving above a lozenge band, above a blind fretwork frieze and rectangular aperture with ribbon and rosette border, the uprights with blind tracery below flower centred quatrefoils, on a moulded plinth base, restorations and replacements previously painted
Overall: 89 in. (226 in.) wide; 64½ in. (164 cm.) high; 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) deep
Aperture: 52 in. x 63¾ in (132.5 cm. x 162 cm.)

來源

Probably supplied to Charles Bennett, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (d.1767) for Chillingham Castle, Northumberland.

拍品專文

The chimneypiece, with Gothic-fretted pilasters and frieze flowered in quatrefoils within an entwined-ribbon guilloche, is likely to have been introduced to Chillinton Castle, Northumberland by Charles Bennett, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (d.1767) and M.P. for Northumberland, at the time that he was aggrandising the ancient castle in the 1750's. Its antiquarian ornament relates to chimneypiece patterns in William Pain's, The Builder's Companion and Workman's General Assistant, 1758, as well as to chimneypieces designed in the 1760s for Bitterley Court, Shropshire by the architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (d.1777).