Chimneypiece
style of Robert Adam (Kirkcaldy 1728 - London 1792)
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1908
Materials
Marble and Siena marble
Measurements
1680 x 2100 x 350 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107954.1
Summary
Marble, chimneypiece, unknown maker and date, before 1908.The marble chimneypiece with inverse breakfront moulded shelf, with egg and dart moulded cornice. The frieze in Siena marble with centralised rectangular relief panel carved with an oval medallion showing Venus, reclined, and reading from a scroll before Cupid who holds his bow and arrow. The medallion is crested with a ribbon and framed by swags suspended by ribbons with acanthus sprays at rear. The jambs are as ionic columns with inlaid vertical channels of Siena marble. Egg and dart moulding on inside edge of chimneypiece. Installed in 1908 by George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FBA (1859–1925); see ‘Notes of Lord C of K’, compiled by Leslie Harris, Muniments Room, Kedleston Hall: ‘I put the present white marble and Sienna mantlepiece (an old one I bought in London) as well as a steel firepiece into the State Sitting Room which had a quite unworthy marble firepiece before […]’.
Provenance
Purchased with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000).
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
style of Robert Adam (Kirkcaldy 1728 - London 1792), architect