Lot 230
GEORGE II CARVED AND PAINTED FIRE SURROUND
MID 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 24 June 2015 at 11:00 BST
£6,000
Description
the breakfront cornice with egg and dart moulding above a frieze centred by a carved mask and acanthus, the sides with boldly carved volute scrolls headed by cherub masks
Dimensions
212cm wide, 153cm high, 45cm deep; interior opening 122cm wide, 109cm high
Footnote
Note: By repute removed from Eigg Lodge, a twelve bedroom Italianate villa built as a Hebridean retreat by shipping magnate Sir Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman in the 1920s. The Grade B listed house was only intermittently inhabited throughout the 20th century and gradually fell into disrepair from neglect..