Live Auction 6359Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A GOTHIC STONE FIREPLACE
Lot 257

A GOTHIC STONE FIREPLACE

LATE 15TH EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Closed21 June 2011

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GBP 12,500

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A GOTHIC STONE FIREPLACE
LATE 15TH EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Carved with a design of quatrefoils below a frieze of trefoils
74 in. (188 cm.) wide

Purchased from Victor Chinnery in the 1990's

Specialist note

A chimney piece of similar type in The Abbot's parlour, Muchelney Abbey of c. 1508 is illustrated in Alison Kelly, The Book of English Fireplaces, County Life books, 1968. p.19.