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A GEORGE II CREAM-PAINTED CHIMNEYPIECE Circa 1745 The rectangular inverted breakfront sh...

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A GEORGE II CREAM-PAINTED CHIMNEYPIECE Circa 1745 The rectangular inverted breakfront sh...
A GEORGE II CREAM-PAINTED CHIMNEYPIECE

Circa 1745 The rectangular inverted breakfront shelf and outset corners with ogee molded edge above an egg and dart molding and entablature centered by an Apollo mask on a sunburst, flanked by ribbon-tied swags of fruit, the aperture with shell-and-leaf quarter-cicle molding and alternating bead and laurel torus, each jamb in the form of an acanthus volute headed by leaf-carved paterae and with scrolled terminals on molded plinths 74 X 107 X 18 IN. (188 X 272 X 45.75 CM) Aperture: 53 X 58 IN. (136.5 X 151.75 CM)

$60,000-80,000

Provenance Henry Edmund Goodridge (1797-1864), Montebello, Bathwich Hills, Bath.

MONTEBELLO, BATH The architect of William Beckford's belvedere tower, Lansdown Hill and a number of other houses on Bathwick Hill in Bath from 1828-1846, Henry Edmund Goodridge built THERE for his family the picturesque Italianate villa Montebello from 1828-1830 (fig. 1), immediately following his Grand Tour. Goodrich would have reused THE PRESENT chimneypiece from a MID-GEORGIAN house in the creation of Montebello.

A chimneypiece of the same large scale and profile and displaying similar features including the Apollo mask and sunburst entablature flanked by ribbon-tied swags of fruit, the same form of scrolling volutes for the jambs, large paterae to the corners, a quarter-circle-molded aperture with egg-and-dart rather than shells, and a bead-and-reel torus is in the drawing room at Brightling Park, Sussex (L.A.

Shuffrey, The English Fireplace and Its Accessories, Batford, London, 1912, pl. XCV). Another chimneypiece with a similar Apollo mask and sunburst entablature flanked by ribbon-tied swags of fruit was made by Robert Doe, probably after William Kent's design published by John Vardy, for the Saloon at Temple Newsam, West Yorkshire (Christopher Gilbert and Anthony Wells-Cole, The Fashionable Fireplace, 1660-1840. Leeds, 1985, p. 14, figs. 2-3). Finally, a chimneypiece with Apollo mask and sunburst entablature flanked by ribbon-tied swags of fruit is seen in the double portrait by Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) of Sir Lawrence Dundas and his Grandson, Lawrence Dundas, later 1st Earl of Zetland in the Library or Pillar Room at 19, Arlington Street, London (Christie's London, July 3, 1997)
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