He is ten feet away from her, leaning against an ornate wooden mantelpiece that bears a bust of the first Emperor Napoleon.
A wooden mantelpiece graces the end of the first floor parlor.
He may have added some of the interior decoration, such as a wooden mantelpiece typical of that era's Federal style homes.
The wooden mantelpiece is a Federal hallmark, probably added during that style's rise in the early 19th century.
At the fair, he is selling a fine 1830 wooden mantelpiece from Boston that was decorated with smoke.
On the south wall of the parlor is a brick fireplace, built later, with original wooden mantelpiece.
One of the rooms on the first floor contains a beautiful carved wooden mantelpiece together with wall panelling.
Above it ran a long wooden mantelpiece with a few tattered leather-bound books.
There wasn't a spare centimetre of space on the deep wooden mantelpiece, and the ornaments were exotic.
In the front parlor the fireplace has its original wooden mantelpiece and chimney breast.