MANTEL

Creator(s): Flaxman (Attributed to)

On view in: First Floor Library

About this object

This mantel is carved from white, yellow, and red marbles. The frame about the fireplace opening is made in white marble with an egg and dart molding. At either side against the white marble is a semi-circular pilaster in yellow marble mottled with gray and with Doric bases and capitals. The marble upper part is made in white marble with tripod perfume burners carved in relief with the twisted snaked insignia of medicine in front of it. The central panel has a classical design. At the right is a satyr carrying a goat and wearing a toga slung over his left shoulder. At the left is an Amazon woman leaning on a tree trunk with her right arm. The trunk is covered with a sheep's skin and there are branches growing out if it. To either side of this panel is a white marble relief with a landscape that is silhouetted against the same yellow marble. The landscape shows two goats on each side, eating and lying down. The white marble ledge has an acanthus motif above and below a dent motif.

Object name:

MANTEL

Made from:

Marble

Made in:

England

Date made:

ca. 1780

Size:

161.3 × 185.4 cm (63 1/2 × 73 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

22.19

Class:

STONE

Signature marks:

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973