SIR JULIUS WERNHER , BATH HOUSE PICCADILLY :An unusually large and impressive Louis XV period fireplace, richly carved in Breche Violette marble, decorated with large central scrolled shell cartouche and scrolled fluted jambs beneath a serpentine shelf.
PROVENANCE : The Pink Drawing Room, Bath House, Piccadilly, London residence of Sir Julius and Lady Wernher...........Sir Julius was , with Cecil Rhodes , one of the creators of South Africa... known as Randlords . He left Germany at the age of 21 , settled in Britain went to the Kimberley diamond fields and assembled vast wealth becoming in the process a prominent member of the British Establishment. Bath House , the interior of which decorated by GEORGES HOENTSCHEL, 1855-1915 , the prominent Parisian Architect , dealer and decorator...was his town house and LUTON HOO filled with art treasures, built by Robert Adam in the 18th century and rebuilt by Robert Smirke , was his country residence.
French, circa 1740.
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width |
height |
depth |
| external |
80.0"
203.2 cms |
52.0"
132.1 cms |
18.5"
47 cms |
| internal |
51.5"
130.8 cms |
41.0"
104.1 cms |
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