A GEORGE III CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT JEWELLED CHIMNEYPIECE The inverted breakfront top above a lappeted band and the recessed lower section with a raised breakfront centre with a further lappeted band above five blue-backed panels with paste swags and ovals, the central panel with a small painted landscape, above further curled and lappeted bands, the supports with an Ionic foliate-trailed capital above upright lotus leaves and panels with conforming trailed paste decoration and on a stepped plinth, the base of the plinth later, losses to the paste decoration, the uprights re-supported, the blue back re-decorated with traces of previous decoration 63½in. (161cm.) high; 66in. (168cm.) wide
A GEORGE III CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT JEWELLED CHIMNEYPIECE The inverted breakfront top above a lappeted band and the recessed lower section with a raised breakfront centre with a further lappeted band above five blue-backed panels with paste swags and ovals, the central panel with a small painted landscape, above further curled and lappeted bands, the supports with an Ionic foliate-trailed capital above upright lotus leaves and panels with conforming trailed paste decoration and on a stepped plinth, the base of the plinth later, losses to the paste decoration, the uprights re-supported, the blue back re-decorated with traces of previous decoration 63½in. (161cm.) high; 66in. (168cm.) wide
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