ABSTRACT
Some of the Continental sculptors came over to our shores and did much work. The inlay of fine coloured designs on chimneypieces was an Italian notion, suggested by mosaic work. Horace Walpole had a handsome example in the circular boudoir at Strawberry Hill. It is of white marble, with alabaster panels decorated with floral and conventional patterns in coloured mosaics. From 1880 to 1900 may be termed a period of revivals. Chimneypieces in the Renaissance, the Louis Quatorze, Quinze and Seize, the Jacobean, Georgian and Adam styles were designed for public, semi-public, and private buildings. This showed a stirring which was to bring change, and change could only be for the better.
