Chimneypiece
attributed to Thomas Carter the Elder (1702 - 1756)
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1753 - 1760
Materials
Stone, Paint
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873023
Summary
White painted stone chimneypiece. Either side of the fire opening and boldly carved surround decoration, two terms on tapering square columns, believed to be busts of the Greek Tragedian Euripides and Greek poet Homer, support an entablature with a broken pediment over a frieze containing a central carved tablet depicting Androcles and the Lion from Aesops Fables
Provenance
Acquired during the remodeling of Saltram House in the mid eighteenth century.By descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951) 4th Earl of Morley.Accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury and transferred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
attributed to Thomas Carter the Elder (1702 - 1756), designer