Created in 1683 for 50 pounds, or about $ 6, 000 in today's money, the overmantel was widely imitated in other stately homes, making Gibbons style all the rage.
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Its panelling and overmantel of the dining-room came from the Cock Tavern in Fleet Street, London; its gallery railings in the hall came from the Old Banqueting Hall at Whitehall Palace.
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Next to the Reading Room is the Bristol Room, which contains antique furniture and fittings brought from the old reading room in King Street, including an ornate oak overmantel carved by Grinling Gibbons.
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This room also features a fine carved overmantel with a woven love knot and central heart; the ground floor room to the right of the hall contains a further good example of a carved overmantel.
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This room also features a fine carved overmantel with a woven love knot and central heart; the ground floor room to the right of the hall contains a further good example of a carved overmantel.
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Notably in the former Billiard Room is a late 16th-century carved wood overmantel consisting of two bays with the initials I . H . and female figures representing Prudence, Justice, and Wisdom.
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House decoration comprised a wide range of activities, including the provision of paintings as overdoors and overmantels, and on panelling, house murals on canvas as well as decorative sign-boards for trade establishments.
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One such example, called the " Van Bergen Overmantel, " is the earliest known American genre painting and the only known scene of everyday life among the Dutch of 18th-century New York.
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Laura Bush, working with her family decorator Ken Blasingame, replaced these sofas with similar ones of a slightly larger scale; returned a number of bouillotte lamps to the room; and added an overmantel mirror.
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Certainly, the overmantel that normally hangs in the duke's private dining room, celebrating the estate's harvest and the trophies of countryside pursuits, is a revealing example in the development of Gibbons'career.
