Altar
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stone
Measurements
1700 x 700 mm
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638370
Summary
A Japanese granite altar in the form of a ringed column raised on a lobed squared base to an acanthus capital supporting a hexagonal altar table with the hexagonal tabernacle upon it; two of the faces as openings, the others carved with animals and with two ‘porthole’ windows; the florid cap with scrolls and a domed finial with a carved collar. The whole in (at least) six pieces of stone.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.