Beschreibung:

A fine Charles I oak overmantel, dated 1627 with a carved foliate frieze above a dentilled cornice, the central panel with fruitwood inlay depicting a landscape with trees entwined with foliage including pears, roses, acorns with other fruits and flowers around a fox below a sunburst centred by a face in profile, the scene surmounted by a burr elm inset section inlaid with words and date, 'LABOR 1627 ORA' and with branded initials 'E.T', the inlaid panel flanked by herms and stylised palmettes and bordered by carved Composite fluted pilasters, the jambs with conforming carved Ionic fluted pilasters 263cm. high, 178cm. wide; 7ft. 9in., 5ft. 10in.