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It was designed by John Carr (1723-1807) for Edwin Lascelles in 1759. Robert Adam (1728-92) designed much of the interior and the building was altered by Charles Barry (1795-1860) in 1843. The House has some of the finest interiors in the region, with work by Joseph Rose, Angelica Kaufmann, Antonio Zucchi and Biagio Rebecca. \n\nAdam decorated the house in a neoclassical manner and employed specialist artists and craftsmen, among them the plasterers John Dodgson, William Collins and in particular Joseph Rose and his assistant Richard Mott, responsible for the state rooms; John Devall, master mason to George III, who did many of the marble chimney pieces, the finest perhaps that in the Music Room; and the cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale for frames for mirrors and paintings as well as suites of furniture to his own and Adam’s designs.\n\nThomas Chippendale was born in Otley, Yorkshire. He was an only child, born into a family of Yorkshire carpenters. Details of his early career are unknown but in 1748, aged 30, he moved to London where he set up as a cabinet-maker, married and had a large family. In 1754 he published The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, a pattern book that was to secure his position as one of the most eminent cabinet-makers of the 18th century.\n\r\nThese pier tables with their matching pier glasses were conceived by Chippendale as part of Robert Adam’s plans for a unified Music Room, a harmonised circular space which creates a sense of movement and melody. The tables have elaborate marquetry tops, with carved and gilded bases. Placed away from the sunlight between the windows they are remarkably well preserved, and represent some of the finest surviving marquetry by Chippendale. They were noted in the 1795\r\ninventory of the house and remain essentially as they were when built by Chippendale’s workshop.\n\nArts Council England, Cultural Gifts Scheme & Accepance in Lieu Report, 2019","physicalDescription":"Carved and gilded acanthus scrolls and leafy ornament are re set below the mirror frame.The rectangular mirrored glass plates are framed in broad carved and gilded frames with applied anthemion ornament,  surmounted with an elaborately carved cresting of a column with scrolling acanthus and anthemion ornament.\nCarved and gilded acanthus scrolls and leafy ornament are re set below the mirror frame.\r\nThe frame is constructed in deal with carved deal mouldings and decoration.The cresting is decoratively connected to the frame  with trailing husks on either side of the central section.The glass appears to be the original 18th century mirror plate.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Thomas Chippendale Senior","id":"N2125"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Wood","id":"AAT11914"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"There is no discernable difference between the quality of carving and gilding on the cresting to that on the mirror frame. 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