Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . with four figures from the latter: Urania,Terpsichore, Euterpe, and Polyhymnia, is the central ornament of the frieze in thedining-room mantel at Monticello, which has also oval medallions of muses at theends. Figures of single muses cast in composition were favorite ornaments forend blocks. For instance, a muse with a lyre (Terpsichore ?) is found in identicalform in mantels of Mclntires Jerathmeel Peirce3 and Felt houses in Salem, of Ver- 1 Essex Probate Records, vol. 372, p. 333. 2 lb., vol. 380, p. 367. 3 Cousins an
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . with four figures from the latter: Urania,Terpsichore, Euterpe, and Polyhymnia, is the central ornament of the frieze in thedining-room mantel at Monticello, which has also oval medallions of muses at theends. Figures of single muses cast in composition were favorite ornaments forend blocks. For instance, a muse with a lyre (Terpsichore ?) is found in identicalform in mantels of Mclntires Jerathmeel Peirce3 and Felt houses in Salem, of Ver- 1 Essex Probate Records, vol. 372, p. 333. 2 lb., vol. 380, p. 367. 3 Cousins and Riley, The Woodcarver of Salem, pi. 106. 256 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC non and the Lilacs in Philadelphia,1 and of a house at 74 Prospect Street, Polyhymnia appears in the William Gray mantel from Salem and in one inthe Oilier house, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Many other figures were of wide dis-tribution. The same pair of subjects is found on the end blocks of a mantel in theOtis house, Boston (figure 210), and on those of one at Vernon. A favorite motive. Figure 216. Mantel from the Registry of Deeds, Salem. Samuel Mclntire, 1807In the possession of the Essex Institute for central panels was a reclining figure of Plenty with a cornucopia. This is foundin mantels of the Jerathmeel Peirce and Hersey Derby houses in Salem/ in thehouse of L. M. Blackford, Fairfax County, Virginia,4 and others. Subjects withnumerous figures are found in Bulfinchs Otis and Hersey Derby houses, in Mcln-tires work at Oak Hill and elsewhere, in the Gore house (figure 211), in Vernon,and in other houses of the period from 1795 to 180^. 1 Wise and Beidleman, Colonial Architecture, pp. 243, 245. 2 American Architect, vol. 55 (1897),- no. 1098. 3 Woodcarver of Salem, pis. 106, 61. 4 Georgian Period, part 1, pi. 10. -57 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE A few exceptional craftsmen, above all Samuel Mclntire, had skill to carve mo-tives in the style of those imported, scarcely yielding to them in
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