Close view of sculpture at Petworth House -

Close detail of the Term of the Bearded Dionysos sculpture in the North Gallery at Petworth House

Figurine, part of the Chales Wade collection at Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire

Close up of one of the lead female sphinx by the west door at Saltram

Head of the marble statue of Disraeli in his robes as Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Charles Bell Birch, ARA, (1832-93) in the Entrance Arcade at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, home of prime minister Benjamin Disraeli between 1848 and 1881

Grotesque face on east front of Bradley Manor, a medieval manor house at Newton Abbot, Devon

Close view of part of the C17th wood carving by Grinling Gibbons in the Carved Room at Petworth House showing the heads of two cherubs

Pewter cast of Newton's death mask in the Study (above the fireplace) at Woolsthorpe Manor

Japanese "No" theatre mask, part of the Charles Wade collection, in the Green Room at Snowshill Manor

Close view of a relief on an ornamental urn at Polesden Lacey, near Dorking, Surrey

Bronze head of Balzac, by Auguste Rodin, at Shaw's Corner

Close-up of the Rodin bust in the Drawing Room at Shaw's Corner