Live Auction 6357Christie's Interiors - Style and Spirit
A VEINED WHITE AND PORTORO MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE
Lot 36

A VEINED WHITE AND PORTORO MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE

OF GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY AND ASSOCIATIONS

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 5,250

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A VEINED WHITE AND PORTORO MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE
OF GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY AND ASSOCIATIONS
With outset columns supporting foliate capitals, the associated tablet with a pastoral scene depicting a hunter and hound with a seated maiden and child, one block with a profile relief of a king
60 7/8 in. (154.5 cm.) high; 65 in. (165 cm.) wide; 15 in. (30 cm.) deep
The opening -- 44¾ x 44¼ in. (113.5 x 112.5 cm.)
Together with a cast-iron inset grate

Romney's House, Hampstead, London.

Specialist note

This chimneypiece was removed from Romney's House, Hampstead, built in 1797 for the portrait artist George Romney. The house was subsequently enlarged in 1807 for use as the Hampstead Assembly Rooms. In 1929 the house was altered and redesigned to convert it into a domestic dwelling by and for Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect best known as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.