Urn
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Limestone and lime mortar
Measurements
1225 x 440 x 440 mm
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1151811.2
Summary
Urn - One of four oolitic limestone urns each of a semi-lobed campana form, on a rising circular foot. The rim has a heavy egg and dart decoration; the body is carved with three tiers of bosses set within fluted fields. The stiff leaf decoration beneath is in alto relievo. It has new socles and a steel rod cemented into the plinth bolted through the base of the urn. In the north-east corner
Provenance
Given by Phillip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.