Chimneypiece with frieze depicting a grape harvest and putti treading grapes in a wine cistern, Dining Room, Tatton Park
Sir Richard Westmacott II, RA (London 1775 - London 1856)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1840
Materials
White marble
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Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1297132
Summary
White marble Chimneypiece with frieze depicting a grape harvest and putti treading grapes in a wine cistern, Dining Room, Tatton Park by Sir Richard Westmacott RA (London 1775 - London 1856). A white marble chimneypiece with ornately carved frieze depicting a grape harvest and putti or infants treading grapes in a wine cistern. Rams' heads, garlands of fruit and flowers and acanthus leaves decorate the volutes of the chimneypiece. Executed by the sculptor Richard Westmacott, the Younger, R.A., in 1840 at a cost of £815. This replaced an earlier, simpler eighteenth century chimneypiece. A design by the architect of the Dining Room, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard exists in his Drawing Book for an elaborate chimneypiece decorated with vines which may have been the predecessor of the current Westmacott chimneypiece.
Makers and roles
Sir Richard Westmacott II, RA (London 1775 - London 1856), sculptor