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[8] Design of a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for the drawing room, c1780

Elevation of a chimneypiece and overmantel. The chimneypiece has moulded stiles ornamented with a segmental vesica piscis-shaped fan, from which hangs a drop composed of a tubular flower, husks, enclosed rosettes, calyx, ribbon, a tablet containing a medallion and festoons, and an urn, with capitals containing figurative panels, and with a frieze containing a tripod flanked by winged sphinxes, and a figurative tablet, and with a dentilled cornice. The chimneypiece is surmounted by an overmantel mirror frame supported by paired attenuated shafts with lotus capitals, between which are drops composed of a mask and festoons, husks, enclosed rosette, tubular flowers, a palmette, calyx and husks. This is surmounted by an enclosed rosette encircled by a fan, supporting a tazza on a pedestal, and with a frieze of enclosed anthemia, and a tablet containing a wheatsheaf(?) framed by arabesques and rosettes, and surmounted by an elliptical figurative medallion with a palmette finial, and framed by reclining female figures and griffins with arabesque tails