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Inlaid statuary and sienna column chimneypiece
The frieze inlaid with a Greek key pattern of Sienna marble and centred by a large marble panel which intersects the moulding below. The panel very finely carved with two ewers facing away from each other; the handles formed as dolphins, the necks spirally fluted and with foliate tops. The bodies of the ewers carved with vitruvian scrolling and double 'S' scrolls above splayed feet decorated with acanthus leaves. The ewers are linked with a swag of graduated husks looped around a central flower head patera. The white blockings carved with oval paterae centred by a sienna button and bordered with sienna buttons and supported on three-quarter pilasters with Doric capitals and resting on curved moulded bases on square stepped blocks. The jambs and soffit of white statuary with an inner egg and dart moulding. The whole surmounted by a stepped moulded shelf of conforming breakfront form and with a carved dentil moulding above the frieze. Circa 1770.
