Mantel Piece
Designed by John Reid Gray
Made by Robert Garnett & Sons
Date: 1891
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: architecture (fixtures and fittings)
Object type: mantelpiece
Material: wood - oak
Description: oak mantel piece made for a billiard room at Reddon Court near Warrington, out of a large oak found fifteen feet below the surface of the earth when excavating the Ship Canal at Thelwall, near Warrington
Sources
Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1891
1891
p. 109 (885)
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=msib5_1222952849, accessed 15 Jul 2020]
