This is an alabaster chimney piece made in the 19th century, in England. The chimney piece is ornamented with Wedgwood ware plaques of the Dancers, modelled by John Flaxman after the frescoes from Herculaneum, those of dancers are modelled by John Flaxman after Herculaneum frescoes, those depicting the history of Achilles are modelled by Camillo Pacetti, and other plaques depict the Judgment of Paris.

John Flaxman (1755-1826) was an English sculptor, designer and teacher. He was the most famous English Neo-classical sculptor of the late 18th century and the early 19th. He focused on monumental sculpture and church monuments and portrait busts. A large collection of his plaster models is held in the Strang Print Room, University College, London. He also made outline illustrations of Homer, Aeschylus and Dante. Many of those in his sketchbooks (now in the V&A) were drawn from the antique while he was in Italy. Furthermore he produced models for pottery and silver supplying the pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood among others. He thus can be considered as an important pioneer in the development of Industrial Design.