This dramatically carved corbel comes from a grand sculpted fireplace. It would have originally been one of a pair, atop slender columns on either side of the hearth, which would together have supported the lintel.  The style of the carving, with the leaf spray fully modelled in high relief and with pronounced naturalistic veining, finds its closest parallels in the many sculpted friezes of the Hotel de Cluny in Paris, the grand urban palace of Jacques d’Amboise constructed in 1485 (fig. 1). Moreover, our corbel is carved from what appears to be the same grade and type of oolitic limestone. Both features suggest a similar date of execution and a similar origin, perhaps one of the capital’s grand palatial residences.