A GEORGE III CREAM-PAINTED CARVED-PINE CHIMNEYPIECE

SUPPLIED TO ASKE HALL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JOHN CARR OF YORK

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A GEORGE III CREAM-PAINTED CARVED-PINE CHIMNEYPIECE
Supplied to Aske Hall under the direction of John Carr of York
The breakfront moulded cavetto cornice with ribbon and rosette band, above a foliage-centred quatrefoil-panelled frieze with lappeted border and scrolling foliage and C-scroll trusses, the aperture with foliate and acanthus-carved moulded eared slip, the sides hung with foliage, each on a plinth, with a marble slip, lacking the mantel shelf, redecorated, minor losses, the blocks replaced
60 in. x 71 in. (152.5 cm. x 180.5 cm.)
Aperture: 47½ in. x 57½ in. (120.5 cm. x 146 cm.)

Provenance

Supplied to Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt., (d. 1781) for Aske Hall, Yorkshire.
Thence by descent to the Marquess and Marchioness of Zetland, Aske Hall, Richmond, North Yorkshire, sold Tennants house sale, 22 September 1994, included in lots 1797 and 1934.

Lot Essay

The entwined foliage scrolls of Roman acanthus also feature on the pilasters of a bedroom chimneypiece on the first floor at Tabley House, Cheshire introduced by Carr in the early 1760s (C. Hussey, 'Tabley House - I', Country Life, 21 July 1923, p. 89, fig. 13).

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