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Antique George III Fireplace Mantle in Sienna, Jasper and Statuary Marble

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A George III, chimney piece in statuary, sienna and jasper marbles with a large and well-carved centre tablet of Virtue and Vice, circa 1765. The breakfront tiered shelf with foliate and dentil decorated mouldings. Virtue is depicted as a sphinx, in the Classical Greek form with female head, breasts, wings and the body of a lion, fighting Vice who is shown as a Triton, son of Neptune and Amphitrite, a merman- half man, half fish who holds a shell which he uses as a shield. This is flanked by sienna marble panels inlaid with geometric lozenges in white. The jambs are in the form of colored jasper, three-quarter round columns with ionic caps and bases in white. The opening framed with egg and dart mouldings symbolizing good and evil. The whole raised on foot blocks.
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