Interior - general view of fireplace with inlaid panel above in Drawing Room

Description Interior - general view of fireplace with inlaid panel above in Drawing Room

Date 1905

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 737066

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 19147

Scope and Content Chimneypiece, Dining Room, Yester House, East Lothian (now a private house) Yester House, the home of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, was built in the early 18th century as a Classical mansion to the design of James Smith & Alexander MacGill. Over the next 250 years, the interior was altered and improved by several of Scotland's most renowned architects, including William Adam and his sons, Robert & John, and the 19th-century architect, Robert Brown. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the house in 1905. This magnificent white marble Rococo chimneypiece has an elaborate overmantel decorated with the Classical Greek key pattern with supporting figures in the form of cherubs at the sides and on the top who play the trumpet (top) and carry a dove (right). The mantelshelf is flanked by a pair of elaborate candelabra. Rococo is a late Baroque style of decoration which was prevalent in 18th-century Europe. It is chiefly represented by a type of decoration initiated in France that was light in colour and weight, often asymmetrical and abstract in form, and characterised by patterns with shell-like and coral-like motifs, many C- and S-shaped curves, and naturalistic flowers, branches, trees and birds. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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