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THE KIRKDALE MANOR CHIMNEY PIECE, English, circa 1735
Height: 60 ½ in; 154 cm
Width: 67 ½ in; 172 cm
Depth: 8 ½ in; 21 cm4497921A George II statuary marble fireplace designed by William Kent. An important early 18th century statuary marble fireplace designed by William Kent having a break front moulded shelf with rope...A George II statuary marble fireplace designed by William Kent.
An important early 18th century statuary marble fireplace designed by William Kent having a break front moulded shelf with rope carving above a finely carved frieze with egg and dart moulding above doric scrolls and shell decoration centered by a tablet with a female mask supported on volute jambs with fine acanthus leaf carving terminating in moulded socle bases.
A chimney piece of almost identical design also by William Kent still remains at Kensington Palace in the 'King's Gallery'.Provenance
Kirkdale Manor, Nawton, North Yorkshire.Literature
Margaret Jourdain, The Work of William Kent, London 1948, p. 122, fig. 53.
