Lot 39: Sanderson Miller (1716-1780)

Designs for chimney-pieces after B. & T. Langley
one pencil, black ink and grey wash, one pencil grey ink and grey wash, fragmentary watermark
4 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. (11.8 x 15 cm.); and 5 3/8 x 7 in. (13.5 x 17.8 cm.) (2)

The first is a George II design for a chimney-piece in the antique or Roman manner and its freize displays an heroic peace trophy of arms and furled pannants centred by a plumed helmet. The scabbard-like pilasters are enriched with tablets of antique flutes and entwined ribbon-guilloche.

The second drawing is a George II design for a chimney-piece serpentined in the French 'picturesque' manner with its frieze displaying a shell-centred acanthus cartouche, while more foliage issues from the voluted trusses of the canted pilasters. One of the latter is more enriched than the other.

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