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elaborate construction, as in
historic grand buildings, this is
known as an
overmantel.
Mirrors and
paintings designed to be hung
above a
mantel shelf may be...
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learns that she is
still alive and that she is a thin, shy girl. The
Overmantels: A
family of
Borrowers who
lived on the drawing-room mantelpiece, they...
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descendants became Viscounts Courtenay and
Earls of Devon. An
heraldic overmantel of c.1750,
survives in a back room of 7
Cathedral Close. The left hand...
- full
achievement is
depicted in the form of a large,
coloured plaster overmantel in the
Lifetimes Gallery at
Buckland Abbey.
Drake was one of
twelve children...
- come also
framed in a
variety of forms, such as the pier gl**** and the
overmantel mirror.
Mirrors are used also in some
schools of feng s****, an ancient...
- have oak panelling, some of
which is
Elizabethan in date, with two fine
overmantels;
there is also a
coffin drop. The
architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner...
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suggest that the
overmantel was made to his
order between 1570, when he
succeeded his
father and his
death in 1600. A
modern heraldic overmantel also exists...
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chimneypiece with
bearded term
figures that
supported the
mantel shelf and an
overmantel bas-relief panel,
Britannia Receiving the
Riches of the East,
under a...
- barrel-vaulted ceiling, with the
original light ****ing. One room has a
marble overmantel with gl**** and
ceramic inlaid, and many
windows retain original stained...
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These include a
number of 17th-century
plaster ceilings and an
alabaster overmantel depicting the
parable of the Ten
Virgins based on a work by
Pieter Bruegel...
