Fireplace
Category
Historic Services / Heating and ventilation
Date
Unknown
Materials
Carrara marble, metal
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773462
Summary
Carrara marble Library fireplace and hearth (west wall). Highly decorated. Mantel shelf supported by enriched brackets. Shallow fluted architrave. Frieze decorated with guilloche panels either side of central plaque depicting central globe flanked by half figures. The inside of the fireplace is lined with black marble attached to the white marble with a small angled bracket. The hearth is also marble. The basket grate and fender are CMS 771981. These rest on the metal base of the firebox. The back-plate is metal and above this is a metal fire-stop / damper?