Chimneypiece
after Thomas Carter the Younger (c.1720 - 1795)
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1795
Materials
Marble
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Saltram, Devon
NT 873039
Summary
Large fire opening with carved egg and dart surround moulding. Coloured marble frame (possibly local) with two white tapering pilaster jambs with block feet and bold relief carved hanging foliage drops, terminating at two carved corbel corner blocks. The white marble central tablet carved to depict Romulus and Remus and the wolf surmounted by a white marble inverted corniced mantel shelf with break front.
Provenance
Acquired c.1795 by John Parker, 2nd Lord Boringdon (1772-1840).By descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951) 4th Earl of Morley.Accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury and transferrred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
after Thomas Carter the Younger (c.1720 - 1795), designer