LATE GEORGIAN STATUARY MARBLE FIREPLACE SURROUND

English, c.1820s

English late-Georgian/Regency Statuary Marble fireplace surround, the shelf sitting above plain frieze flanked by handsome palm leaf capitals in the Egyptian manner, the fluted pilaster jambs on block feet, with opening surrounded by deep convex moulded ingrounds and bead mould to the interior.

£0000

AW017

  • This boldly conceived fireplace is a great example of the more simplified classical form preferred of the period. The unusual palm leaf capitals display a newly fashionable Egyptian influence, popularised by such interior tastemakers as Thomas Hope (1769 – 1831). Grand Tours of the period took the gentry to Egypt and the Ottoman Empire as well as Europe, and as such new influences from these ancient cultures became apparent in the contemporary design of the day.

    For similar examples see Neil Burton & Lucy Potten, Georgian Chimneypieces (The Georgian Group, 2000), p.18

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