Live Auction 5349Christie's Interiors
A GEORGE III PAINTED AND GILTWOOD CHIMNEYPIECE
Lot 330

A GEORGE III PAINTED AND GILTWOOD CHIMNEYPIECE

LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed18 March 2008

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GBP 875

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A GEORGE III PAINTED AND GILTWOOD CHIMNEYPIECE
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Redecorated
63in. (160cm.) high; 78½in. (199.4cm.) wide; 8¼in. (21cm.) deep; the opening -- 50 x 55in. (127 x 139.7cm.)

Stubbers, North Ockendon, Essex. (Demolished 1960).

Specialist note

This elegant chimney-piece is likely to have been commissioned by William Russell for his Drawing Room at Stubbers, Essex at the time that he was employing the architect Sir Humphrey Repton (d.1818) in the mid 1790s.