Mantel-piece
Date: 1872
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: mantelpiece
Material: stone - marble
Technique: carved
Description: 'Mantel-piece, with medallions of Lords Nelson and Duncan, inlaid with antique marbles.'
Above exhibited by Simpson Sheppard, alongside other objects as follows:
'Mantel-piece of Italian and Irish marble; the design is taken from a line in Moore's Melodies, and is formed by two harps interwoven with wild flowers and inlaid with Cork Marble.' Price £60.
'Memorial Cross'. Price £45. Man, 1872. 'White Marble Mantel-piece'. Price £9. Man. 1872. Simpson Sheppard.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (and Loan Museum of Works of Art), 1872
Sources
Official Catalogue of the Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures and Loan Museum of Works of Art, 1872
1872
Section C, Class 1, Marble, Porcelain and Pottery, p. 30 (12)
Citing this record
'Mantel-piece', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1218456723, accessed 24 Mar 2023]
