A SET OF FOUR REGENCY SCAGLIOLA 'SIENA MARBLE' IONIC COLUMNS

Crakemarsh Hall, near Uttoxeter, was the seat of Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard, Bt. (d.1848). Nikolaus Pevsner in the 1950s described Crakemarsh as a `compact two story stucco villa circa 1820, …. all very quiet and modest ; and a surprise to find that the house seems to have been built (or possibly re-built) around a sumptuous 17th century staircase’. The columns formed a screen in the dining-room and by 1968 when the estate was sold by Bagshaw and Knight Frank and Rutley, the scagliola had been covered with layers of white paint.