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Regency

Jamb N344 fireplace

N344

A good quality, Regency period, Neoclassical, statuary marble column chimneypiece

A good quality Regency period, statuary marble column fireplace, made in Italy for the English market to a British neoclassical design. The rectangular moulded tiered shelf above the frieze, which is centred with a rectangular plaque with a finely executed female winged head of Medusa, on a contrasting plain background. This is flanked by panels decorated with six posies of flowers within geometric borders. The pilaster jambs fronted with tapering, fluted, full round columns with Ionic caps and surmounted by rectangular protruding blockings with carved flower shaped paterae. The whole raised on footblocks. Circa 1820.

Height 52½in (133cm) width 66½in (169cm)
Internal height 40in (101.6cm) width 50¼in (127.5cm)
Footblock to footblock 67in (170cm)
Shelf depth 10½in (26.5cm)