Chimneypiece with bolection moulding
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Blank, Marble
Measurements
1220 x 1400 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486465.2
Summary
White marble, Chimneypiece, with bolection moulding
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.