How To Use Overmantel In A Sentence
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There is an open fireplace with an oak overmantel.
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By the second quarter of the century, dwellings in Paris flaunted brilliant crystal chandeliers and small, exquisitely carved marble mantels with large mirror panels, or painted overmantels called trumeaus.
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In 1980 the overmantel was the subject of a six-month campaign of conservation, when the failing plaster was stabilized and most of the paint from the ornamentation was removed.
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Before Banks, commissions for sculptures in Britain produced busts, public statues, church monuments and decorative reliefs for overmantels and overdoors.
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Below the gallery he divided the long wall into three sections with two Empire chimneypieces and overmantels.
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They were named Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, and Mr. Bensington interviewed them in a small room with hermetically sealed windows, a spotted overmantel looking-glass, and some ailing calceolarias.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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One of the most successful styles adopted by carvers of rococo overmantels was chinoiserie.
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In the overmantel mirror as she passed she paused to check her appearance.
COMPULSION
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The overmantel in the Small Drawing-Room at Levens Hall in Cumbria, for example, is supported by a pair of full-length figures, dating from the Tudor period, representing Samson to the left and Hercules to the right of the fireplace.
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Carved overmantels, slate hearths and marble surrounds are typical of Victorian homes where making an impression with expensive materials was the fashion.
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Inch by inch his eyes moved until they reached the top shelf of the overmantel and stopped.
Leonie of the Jungle
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Reaching the front door, she opened it and shut it again hard, using the music of the bells to cover her stealthy return through the maze of Edwardian dining chairs, assorted cabinets, and overmantel mirrors.
Sonnet of the Sphinx
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In the dining room there was a great teak overmantel and china cabinets were built into the alcoves.
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Opposite this is a family room with a large brick fireplace with timber overmantel, ceiling cornice and centrepiece.
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The sitting room has double French doors leading into the back garden, a polished wooden floor and a large fireplace with a marble overmantel and hearth.
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As the influence of neoclassicism began to emerge, overmantels changed accordingly.
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A Victorian overmantel reached from the mantelpiece to the ceiling.
Through the Wall
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The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000).
Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies
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For example, there is a statuette of a kneeling cupid on the overmantel.
Royal Flash
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A large two-tone giltwood gesso overmantel mirror, 8,000-12,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire ....
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens on to the curved stone stair to the first floor.
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It must have formed part of one of these early Morris overmantels.
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The overmantel contains its original rectangular mirror plate and has a moulded bead and leaf frame measuring 83 centimetres high by 150 wide.
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By the mid 18th century it was much more common for door furniture to be integrated with an interior design with ornament matching overmantels and cabinets.
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The fireplace and overmantel are furnished with objects that reaffirm the collectors' particular affinity for the arts of Pennsylvania.
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The carved foliage with ribbons and laurel wreaths applied to the center of the end cupboards relates to carvings on some of the best Federal mantels and overmantels in New Orleans.
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She stood up and caught a glimpse of herself in the overmantel mirror.
COMPULSION
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There's where it was," she said softly and pointed to a deep niche cut into the surface of the stone overmantel.
Ralestone Luck
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The other three stood by the fireplace, Rudi leaning against the overmantel.
Royal Flash
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Both rooms feature very fine fireplaces with tiled and brass insets and wooden overmantels.
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The tops of cabinets, doorframes, and overmantels rapidly became the preferred locations for the display of newly imported and prized porcelain.
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The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000).
Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies
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As for the George II Chinoiserie giltwood overmantel mirror by sold by Christie's New York on 3 June, it had it all.
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The crowning glory was the astonishing overmantel looking glass shown in Plate III.
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She has taken out all the pins now, and has thrown her bonnet on to the lounge nearest to her, and is standing before the glass in the overmantel patting and pushing into order the soft locks that lie upon her forehead.
April's Lady A Novel
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Pending further discoveries, the mirror has been returned to the overmantel in the Velvet Bedroom.
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To the right of the hall is the sitting room which is painted a deep, warm red and has the original fireplace and mirror overmantel.