MARBLE CHIMNEY-PIECES 



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FlG. 305. Design for a Chimney-Piece at Shardiloes 

 House, 1761, by Robert Adam. 



In the Soane Museum. 



Fig. 170; but smaller and less pretentious patterns were frequently 

 adopted, of which a typical example is shown in Fig. 301 ; here a 

 marble slab surrounds the opening, and is in its turn surrounded 

 by a small wood moulding and surmounted by a flat frieze and 

 a cornice which forms the mantel shelf. This type held the field 

 all through the eighteenth century, sometimes plain, sometimes 

 enriched, as in the example from the Deanery at Wells (Fig. 302). 

 A variation, all in marble, is shown in Fig. 304, from a house in 

 Carev Street. 



