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Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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<-/;/ l!y George H. Polity Figure 94. Chimneypiece in the Council Chamher, Wentvvorth house. Little Harbor ported, x-^t Carters Grove, built 1751, one room had a full marble mantelpiecewith frieze and cornice (figure 87), another merely marble architrave-facings.Bills for the Schuyler house include one of 1767 for 4 marble chimney pieces withhearths.^ Governor Tryon enclosed in one of his letters of 1769 a description ofthe finest of the chimneypieces for his house: G. Schuyler, The Schuyler Mansion, p. 6.126 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY For the Council Chamber in the Governors House at Newbern in North Carolina. A large statuary Ionic chimney piece, the shafts of the columns sienna and the frett on the Frieze inlaid with the same. A rich edge and Foliage on the Tablet; medals of the
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Figure 95. Chimneypiece from Kents Design of Inigo Jones, plate 64. Prototypeof the Council Chamber mantel in the Wentworth House, Little Harbor King & Queen on the Frieze over the Columns, the mouldings enriched, a large statuarymarble slab and black marble covings.Messrs. Devol & Granger/<r//. • Colonial Records of North Carolina, vol. 8 (1890), p. 8.127 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE It is to be noted that this chimneypiece was flanked by a small order withcolumns. Analogous flanking members occur in the other marble mantels of thislate period. One in the Van Rensselaer house has carved terminal figures; the onein the Miles Brewton drawing-room has pilaster-like strips crowned by consoles;the one in the parlor of the Chase house has half-pilasters. The Tryon chimney-piece also had another feature found at this time only in imported mantels: a friezewith a central panel and end motives, decorated with reliefs. Here there weremedallions at the ends, foliage in the centre

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