Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
VARIOUS INCOMPLETE SECTIONS OF A GEORGE III CARVED WALNUT CHIMNEYPIECE REMOVED FROM ALTHORP'S SALOON IN THE 1920s
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VARIOUS INCOMPLETE SECTIONS OF A GEORGE III CARVED WALNUT CHIMNEYPIECE REMOVED FROM ALTHORP'S SALOON IN THE 1920s

CIRCA 1760, ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 1,125

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VARIOUS INCOMPLETE SECTIONS OF A GEORGE III CARVED WALNUT CHIMNEYPIECE REMOVED FROM ALTHORP'S SALOON IN THE 1920s
CIRCA 1760, ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART
Including part of the mantleshelf, losses, incomplete, the scallop shell carving inscribed 'SALOON FIREPLACE CHIMNEYPIECE'
Mantle shelf - 113 in. (287 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Elements of this chimneypiece are photographed in the Saloon at Althorp circa 1909. It was probably removed in the 1930s when most of the architectural mouldings including chimneypieces were removed from Spencer House to Althorp by Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), and replaced by that from the Ball Room in Spencer House.