Fireplace
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1908
Materials
Marble, Sienese marble and steel
Measurements
1460 x 1860 x 202 mm
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107968
Summary
Marble, Sienese marble and steel, fireplace, unknown maker, unknown date, before 1908. The chimneypiece carved of white marble, with inverse breakfront moulded shelf, a frieze inlaid with vertical bands of Siena marble, two oval paterae and relief urns on the endblocks. The marble relief panel at centre depicts a bacchante in a chariot led by two putti riding lions. The bacchante holds a thyrsus and her robes billow in the wind. The jambs are rendered as ionic pilasters inlaid with vertical bands of Siena marble, on block feet. Fitted with a steel register grate, with bowed-railed basket grate surmounted with urn finials and pierced fret. The register grate engraved with foliate scrolls and ribbons, with pierced steel fender. 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 also substituted an old Adam mantlepiece bought in London for a poor stove one in the State Dressing Room’ (i.e. The Wardrobe).
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)