Many of the old houses retain the beautiful mantelpieces designed and executed by these accomplished artists.
It is after the fashion of the famous mantelpieces of Tattershall Castle.
The beautiful mantelpieces still remaining in the castle, embellished with his arms, and the proud motto, “Ne j’ droit?
And if they had held clocks, as mantelpieces do, a telescope would have been necessary to discern the hour.
The mantelpieces were so preposterously high that not even a giant could have sat at the fireplace and put his feet on them.
On the upper floors the beautiful proportions of the rooms remain uninjured, and the mantelpieces and the cornices have also been preserved.
I knew a dealer who bought a large house solely to acquire the five Bossi mantelpieces which it contained.
There are marble mantelpiecesand marble mantelpieces.
You do not find leaves torn out of books; nor carpets strewn with fragments of biscuits; nor mantelpieces getting heaped with accumulated rubbish.
Even mantelpieces were made of it, to match the furniture, and there was a fancy to have the drawing-rooms and boudoirs very light and elegant.
Carved and open-work mahoganymantelpieces could be had by 1765, and elegant grates and Bath Stoves are imported from England.
The constant repetition of the laurel-wreath on chairs, walls, mantelpieces and furniture is very monotonous, and we miss the graceful curves of the acanthus and celery leaves.
These primitive homes did not have mantelpieces as a rule, but the heavy wooden beam fashioned with an axe was called the mantel-tree.
Such ornaments were seen on the kitchen mantelpieces of the well-to-do and on the hob-grates of the houseplaces of the middle classes.
In a well-known hotel, at one time an old coaching house famous for its copper and brass wares, the candlesticks in those early days a necessity are now placed in pairs on the bedroom mantelpieces as mementoes of the past.
Many of the modern reproductions of copper panels used for letting into mantelpieces are designs, carefully copied, taken from old baronial halls.
The collection of mantelpieces may be left to the wealthy and to those who have baronial halls in which to refix them.
Some of these mantelpieces of olden time were magnificent memorials of the sculptor's and the carver's art.
Wooden ornament in those days took the form of over-doors, and wreaths running down the lintels; and massive mantelpieces of oak were carved deeply.
There are many beautiful curios of the home made of wood, among them being such rare gems as wood screens and the frames of hand screens, some of which screwed on to the ends of the mantelpieces with small clamps.
During more recent days, however, there has been a greater appreciation of the curio value of mantelpieces and old grates, and it is no uncommon thing for hundreds and even thousands of pounds to be paid for rare specimens.
As we waited for luncheon we looked about at the collection of antique brass, copper, china and pottery that almost covered the walls and crowded the mantelpieces and odd corners about the inn.
Inside there are great paneled rooms with richly bossed plaster ceilings, wide fireplaces with mantelpieces emblazoned with the arms of the ancient owners, and many narrow winding passageways leading--you never quite learn whither.
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