Edinburgh, Frogston Road East, Mortonhall, interior. Detail of chimneypiece sculpture, showing a Herm with flowers and fruits.

Description Edinburgh, Frogston Road East, Mortonhall, interior. Detail of chimneypiece sculpture, showing a Herm with flowers and fruits.

Catalogue Number SC 565195

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 10449

Scope and Content Detail of the chimneypiece in the principal drawing room, Mortonhall House, Frogston Road East, Liberton, Edinburgh Mortonhall House, designed and built for the Trotters of Mortonhall in 1769 by the architect, John Baxter Junior, stands, surrounded by gardens and extensive parkland, on the north side of Frogston Road East. It has recently been converted into 13 flats. This ornamental bracket, one of a pair flanking the late 18th-century white marble chimneypiece in the drawing room, is topped by the head of a young boy, and elaborately carved with fruit and flowers. In the late 18th century, the most important chimneypiece was usually in the drawing room. In the best houses it would be designed by the architect himself, and was usually of white marble, elaborately ornamented with flowers, fruit and Classical images. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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