A GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED CARVED-PINE CHIMNEYPIECE

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

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A GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED CARVED-PINE CHIMNEYPIECE
Supplied to Aske Hall under the direction of John Carr of York
The double breakfront moulded shelf above a lappeted and egg-and-dart moulded cornice and a scrolling acanthus-enriched frieze flanked by a pair of acanthus-carved tablets supported on the outside by scrolling foliage trusses, the eared aperture with a foliate and acanthus-carved moulded slip, each side with a scrolled-acanthus volute, on a plinth base, with a marble slip, the blocks and the left-hand plinth replaced, redecorated, minor losses
60 in. x 70½ in. (152.5 cm. x 179 cm.)
Aperture: 46¾ in. x 55 in. (119 cm. x 140 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 chimneypiece with architectural or eared frame buttressed with a volute-scrolled truss, relates to a pattern (plate 37) in Robert Morris's, The Architectural Remembrancer...To which are added A Variety of Chimney-Pieces, after the Manner of Inigo Jones, and Mr. Kent, London, 1751, which Carr made use of on a number of occasions. The entablature's elegant scroll or rainceau of Roman acanthus relates to those of the dining-room doors and a bedroom chimney entablature at Tabley House, Cheshire introduced by Carr in the early 1760s and attributed to Daniel Shillitoe of York (C. Hussey, 'Tabley House - I', Country Life, 21 July 1923, pp. 88 and 89). The scrolled trusses also feature on a contemporary bedroom chimneypiece designed by Carr for Lytham Hall, Lancashire (M. Girouard 'Lytham Hall - II', Country Life, 28 July 1960, p. 190, fig. 7).

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