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Material: Wood
Monumental Neo-Renaissance Fireplace Mantel, 19th Century, Holland
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Large Dutch neo-Renaissance antique fireplace, very impressive and grande.
Marble jambs made from beautiful black and green "vert de Patricia".
Oak frieze with paneling and superb ca...
Category
19th Century Dutch Renaissance Revival Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Well Carved English Pine Fireplace with Barrel Frieze & Oak Leaves
Located in London, GB
A well carved English pine fireplace. The intricate centre blocking featuring wreath, ribbons and foliage, flanked by barrelled frieze adorned with oak leaves. The jambs with acanthu...
Category
Early 20th Century English Georgian Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Claydon Chimney Piece Mirror
By Luke Lightfoot
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
An exceptional carved chimney piece with mirror above, inspired by the Chinese room of Claydon. The elaborate carved decoration following the style of Luke Lightfoot...
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21st Century and Contemporary English George III Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Paint, Gesso
Dr C Dresser for Benham and Froud. A Scarce Aesthetic Movement Oak Coal Box.
Located in London, GB
A rare Aesthetic Movement oak coal box designed by Dr Christopher Dresser, made by Benham and Froud with stylized brass handles retaining it's original liner and coal shovel...
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1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass
English Pine and Gesso Antique Fireplace
Located in London, GB
An 19th century pine and gesso fireplace. The centre panel lattice basket of flowers juxtaposed by flowered drops, swags to side panels, and urns to end blockings. Acanthus leaf capi...
Category
19th Century English Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
1800s English Regency Style Carved Oak Tall Mantel with Lion, Ribbon and Swags
Located in New York, NY
English Regency style oak mantel. Very large mantel, but not overly done, from the 1800s. It has a center lion motif with ribbon and swag details. Pl...
Category
Late 19th Century English Regency Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
English Wood Fireplace in the George III Style
Located in London, GB
A finely carved pine George III style fireplace. The frieze with recurring palmette and bellflowers throughout, with classical urns to end blocks. The jambs with tied ribbons and bel...
Category
20th Century English George III Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Renaissance Style Antique Walnut Trumeau Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A tall and boldly carved, columned walnut trumeau fireplace in the Renaissance style. The upper frieze, with a central cartouche flanked by floral scrolls, is set above the main frie...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Renaissance Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
Fan-Carved Wood Mantel in the Federal Taste
Located in New York, NY
New York,
Fan-carved mantel in the Federal taste, circa 1812
Pine
Measures: 66 1/4 in. high, 90 3/8 in. wide, 13 1/4 in. deep
Within the genre of carved rather than plasterwork mantels of the Federal Period, no example that has come to light is more perfectly designed or more carefully wrought than the present one, which is an amazing symphony of fans, urns, beads, and other Neo-Classical devices, all ultimately influenced by the plasterwork designs of the English architects Robert (1728–1792) and James (1732–1794) Adam.
Of a type that proliferated in the area bounded by the northern New Jersey counties of Bergen and Passaic, the Hudson Valley, and western Long Island, the mantel is representative of work that flourished in the first couple of decades of the 19th century. While most of the woodwork of this style that has survived is found in interiors, various examples of exterior doors and other trim have been noted, but most examples have disappeared as a result, variously, of natural deterioration and purposeful demolition in anticipation of development.
Although considerably larger in scale and more elaborate in ornament than a mantel that has been in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum since 1944 (acc. no. 44.55; photograph in Hirschl & Adler archives), the present mantel is so close in style and conception to that example that it likely originated in the same house.
The Brooklyn mantel is documented as having been removed from a house built by Judge Isaac Terhune (1762–1837), an eminent lawyer and judge. The house was situated on King’s Highway, at the corner of Mansfield Place, at the edge of South Greenfield, a village in northern Gravesend, Brooklyn. A photograph of the house, taken by the German e´migre´ photographer, Eugene Armbruster (1865–1933), is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Terhune is ultimately descended from the Dutch-Huguenot e´migre´ Albert Albertson Terhunen, who died in Flatlands, Brooklyn, in 1685.The family eventually spread out through New Amsterdam, Long Island, and Bergen County, New Jersey. Terhune’s great-grandson, also Albert (1715–1806), left a sizable estate to his six surviving children, including his second child and second son, Isaac.
Judge Terhune lived in the house until his death in 1837, at which time, according to an article in The New York Times for November 27, 1910, he, having died without issue, “left the White Frame Mansion with its exquisitely carved doorway, beautiful mantels, and other interior adornments to his brother John” (Part Six, p. 11).
The article continues:
After the latter’s death, the house and its estate of about 70 acres passed through several owners, eventually being purchased in 1853 by Benjamin G. Hitchings [1813–1893].
The house next passed to Benjamin’s son, Hector, who had been born in the house, and then lived there for 25 years. He sold it in 1910 in partial payment for a Manhattan apartment house. After thus having been sold to a real estate developer, the Hitchings property was subdivided into Hitchings Homestead. The house survived until about 1928, at which time it was razed and a Deco-style apartment house with the address 2301 Kings Highway was constructed on the site and occupied in 1935.
By 1910, the fate of the house, in an area of Brooklyn that was being rapidly developed, was becoming obvious. The Times article reported:
The house has been well kept up, but fearing lest the hand of time or vandals might deal harshly with some of its choice bits of carving, Mr. Hitchings removed a few years ago a few beautifully carved wood mantels...
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1810s American Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
English Wood Fireplace in the Georgian Style
Located in London, GB
An English wood fireplace in the Georgian manner. The fluted frieze with carved urn to centre tablet adorned with carved beading, the tapering, ...
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Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
English Oak and Brass Trumpeted Cherub Leather Bellow, Circa 1830
Located in Hollywood, SC
English oak bellow with decorative centered trumpet cherub, hammered brass pinwheel mounts, cast brass bulbous nozzle, and leather carrying strap. Bellow is in working condition, Ear...
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1820s English George IV Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass
E W Godwin. Anglo Japanese Mahogany Fire Screen with Original Silk Country Scene
Located in London, GB
Edward William Godwin, attributed. An Anglo Japanese Mahogany fire screen with the original Japanese silk depicting a bridge over a river in a countr...
Category
Late 19th Century English Anglo-Japanese Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Silk, Mahogany
Enormous Antique Walnut Fireplace Mantel Signed Carlo Scarselli
Located in London, GB
An enormous and grand antique walnut chimneypiece in the neoclassical style. The frieze elaborately carved with three pairs of sea serpents alternating with flambeau urns and scallop...
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Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
Imposing Period English Antique Regency Pine Fireplace
Located in London, GB
An imposing period English Regency pine fireplace. The finely carved jambs featuring urns and swags surmounted by carved rams heads, the end blockings with carved round paterae, the ...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
19th century Chippendale Style Hanging Wall Shelf or Overmantle
Located in Savannah, GA
Unusual Chippendale style hanging wall shelf made of fine mahogany and featuring eight intricately turned spindles and a handsome carved crown.Original mirror glass. See measurements...
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19th Century British Chippendale Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Mahogany, Mirror
Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Carved Wood Fireplace Surround
Located in New York, NY
Late 19th century Louis XVI style carved wood fireplace surround
The large and hand-carved frieze centered with a plaque depicting th...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
Mirrored Mantel Piece with Shell Decorations
Located in Stamford, CT
Carved and beveled mantel with shaped and beveled wood top. Carved shell and sea decorations. Front vertical pieces are 12" wide. Front horizontal piece is 13" high.
Category
1930s American Vintage Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Monumental Antique French Walnut and Oak Figural Fireplace
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fine monumental 19th century French masterfully hand carved walnut and oak figural fireplace. This magnificent large hand carved fireplace is of solid walnu...
Category
19th Century French Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Mid-19th Century Antique English Carved Pine Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A mid-19th century English carved pine fireplace, with carved leaf and dentils to cornice, carved patera and foliage to centre frieze and leaf and rope twist around inner mouldings.
...
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19th Century English Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Italian Neoclassical Console Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th century, Italian neoclassical console table with veneered verde antique top, the base having original faux painted verde ...
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Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
English Georgian Style Pine Fireplace with Gesso Enrichments
Located in London, GB
An English Georgian style pine fireplace with gesso enrichments. The frieze with centre blocking of urn tied with ribbon, juxtaposed with Cornucopia holdings leaves and fruit with or...
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Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
A Rare Anglo-Japanese Fire Screen designed by E W Godwin With Kissing Birds Silk
Located in London, GB
A rare and important Anglo-Japanese walnut fire screen by Edward William Godwin with a Pagoda style top and a silk Japanese country scene to the front. To the back although worn, there are peacock designs in a circle in the same style as Godwin designed for Jeffrey and Co, including the kissing birds...
Category
Late 19th Century English Anglo-Japanese Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Silk, Walnut
Late 18th Century Carved Pine English Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A very good quality late 18th century carved pine English fireplace. The centre panel with carved quiver, foliage and ribbons, with running scrolled foliage and paterae to frieze. Pe...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
20th Century Hand-Carved Oakwood Fireplace Mantel
Located in Casteren, NL
20th century neo Gothic hand-carved oakwood fireplace mantel.
Originates Netherlands, dating, circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
Late 19th-Early 20th Century English Carved Wood Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A late 19th-early 20th century English carved wood fireplace. The shaped frieze with basket of fruit and foliage surmounted by laurel leaves. The...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
Small French Louis XV Style Wood Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A small French Louis XV style wood fireplace. The panelled frieze with carved shell to centre, the shaped jambs surmounted with scrolled shells. 19th century. (Photo taken prior to r...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
18th Century English George III Carved Pine Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
An attractive 18th century George III pine fireplace. The frieze delicately carved with scrolled foliage to centre blocking and side panels. The jambs with carved tied ribbon with be...
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Late 18th Century British George III Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Carved Pine Fireplace with Lion's Mask and Drapery
Located in London, GB
A carved pine fireplace with lion's mask and drapery to centre, barrel frieze with stiff acanthus leaf, egg and dart and leaf cornice mouldings and acanthus leaf inner leg moulding. ...
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20th Century English George II Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
English Georgian Pine Classical Mantle with Carved Foliage & Medallions. C 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Georgian Pine Classical mantle with original carved gesso, foliage, and medallion motif. Late 18th Century.
Overall measurements- 67.25" Wide at top / 7.25" Deep at top /...
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1780s English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Gesso, Pine
19th Century English Japanned Wood Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A rare and unusual 19th century English grained and Japanned wood highly decorated fireplace, with depictions of peacocks and foliage in gold leaf and vibrant colours. The shelf of P...
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19th Century English Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
Carved English George III Style Pine Fireplace
Located in London, GB
An English George III style pine fireplace, with carved festoon centre of leaves, fruit and flowers, scrolled and leaf side panels, acanthus l...
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19th Century English George III Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
19th Century George III Style Pine Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A 19th century George III style pine fireplace with carved festoon centre of fruit, flowers and leaves, side panels with scrolls and foliage, dentil and leaf cornice, and carved flow...
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19th Century English George III Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
German Louis XV 18th century Rococo Walnut Fireplace Mantel
Located in Troy, NY
Fireplace surround and overmantle (can be fitted with a mirror plate or a painting), beautiful carved decoration, warm rich patina.
The separate measurements for the two parts:
Over ...
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Mid-18th Century German Rococo Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
Shaped Oak Fireplace
Located in London, GB
An unusual, shaped oak fireplace. The frieze with carved shell to centre and floral embellishments to ends. Moulded jambs. Photo taken prior to restoration.
Measures:
Shelf Width: 1...
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19th Century English Baroque Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
English Mid-Georgian Timber Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A large English carved pine mid-Georgian fireplace. The ogee shaped frieze with flowers and scrolled leafwork detail, and leaf inner moulding to frieze and breakleg jambs. The invert...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
A 19th Century English Oak Fireplace with Carved Mask to Centre
Located in London, GB
A 19th century English oak fireplace with carved mask to centre, egg and dart dentil cornice, jambs with drapery surmounted by leaf pateras.
Mea...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
Exceptional Antique Wooden Fireplace, 18th Century
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
This beautifully and delicately carved large wooden fireplace, was made in the 18th century. Leeuwarden, Friesland.
Known Provenance.
Ready for inst...
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18th Century and Earlier Dutch Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
Early 19th Century Pine Fireplace Featuring Aesop's Fable
Located in London, GB
A good quality and unusual early 19th century pine fireplace. The carved centre plaque depicting the Aesop's fable of "The Dog and Its Reflection." The frieze with swags and floral g...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Rare 19th Century Pine Trumeau 'Upper Mantel'
Located in Beervelde, BE
This original trumeau in pinewood comes out of a Louis XIV style paneled room and was installed above the fireplace surround.
The mirror is 20th cent...
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19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Monumental Gothic Style Carved Walnut Fireplace
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A monumental superb quality 19th century British Gothic style carved walnut and polychrome decorated fireplace. The masterfully hand carved fireplace is of solid walnut.
This Goth...
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19th Century British Gothic Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
Large Antique Pine and Gesso Georgian Fireplace Mantel, circa 1770
Located in London, GB
A grand and large George III twin columned warm toned pine and gesso Georgian chimneypiece with its original Carrara marble slips. The fluted and...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Gesso, Pine
20th Century Hand-Carved Oakwood Fireplace Mantel
Located in Casteren, NL
Hand-carved neo Gothic oakwood fireplace mantel.
Designed to hang on the wall.
Originates Netherlands, dating approximately 1900
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
English Regency Pine and Composition, Antique Giltwood Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A very attractive English Regency carved pine, mahogany and composition giltwood chimneypiece. The mahogany breakfront shelf above richly carved lambs tongue motif, the reeded frieze...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Mahogany, Pine
Rare 18th & 19th Century French (Normandy) Carved Oak & Limestone Mantel
Located in Nashville, TN
Impressive and monumental in size! Mantel is from Normandy, France. Chimney breast has an 18th century carved panel inset featuring animal f...
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19th Century French Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Limestone
Unique 17th Century Baroque Dutch Fireplace
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Large and amazing Baroque Dutch mantelpiece from the 17th century.
Very well decorated limewood frieze displays an array of beautiful water plants, su...
Category
17th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble, Iron
18th Century Neoclassical Pine Mantel
Located in New York, NY
A very fine late 18th century neoclassical pine mantel in excellent condition and exquisitely well carved featuring corner blocks carved with rosettes above tapering pilasters carved with pendant bell drops, and running frieze ribbon tied swags beneath a breakfront corniced mantel...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
18th Century Antique Carved Pine Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A broken pediment with carved acanthus leaves and dentils rests on a shelf forming an architectural cornice above a fluted frieze. The projecting end blocks are embellished with flor...
Category
Mid-18th Century British Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Pine
Turn of the Century Georgian Style Stained Oak Mantelpiece
Located in New York, NY
English Georgian style dark stained oak mantelpiece carved in a rectilinear post and lintel composition referencing both Classical architecture and tra...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
18th Century Neoclassical Pine Mantel
Located in New York, NY
An exceptionally fine neoclassical pine mantel with a frieze carved in the finest low relief centered with an urn and flanked by foliate arabesques. The corner blocks carved with urn...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Neoclassical Pine Fireplace with Carved Urn
Located in London, GB
An English neoclassical pine fireplace. The centre blocking with carved urn and drapery, flanked by oval paterae and fluting. The tapering legs with tied ri...
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Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Monumental Pair of Carved Pine Corbels
Located in Buchanan, MI
Monumental pair of carved pine corbels, great scale and proportions.
Category
19th Century American Adam Style Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
English Hand-Painted Fireplace Mantel in the Neoclassical Style
Located in London, GB
A rare and highly decorative chimney piece in the manner of George Brookshaw
The frame carved part gilded and polychrome decorated, with the inverted breakfront top shelf having a...
Category
19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Paint
19th Century English Mahogany Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A 19th century English mahogany fireplace. The frieze inlaid with swags and bell drops, the centre panel with plaque featuring figures a...
Category
19th Century British Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Mahogany
A Neo Renaissance fireplace
Located in Baambrugge, NL
A Neo Renaissance fireplace, it's limestone legts with Corinthian columns and finely carved corbels. The oak and ebony parallel top with carved lions heads.
Category
19th Century Dutch Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Limestone
American Neoclassical Cypress Figural Mantel " Dance Design " R. Wellford C 1790
By Wellford
Located in Hollywood, SC
Charleston / Philadelphia Cypress and White Pine Neoclassical mantel piece with a central carved gesso panel of dancing figural ladies, floral swags, floral urns, musical instruments...
Category
1790s American Neoclassical Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Composition
19th Century Victorian Oak Fire Mantel
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A stunning Victorian oak fire mantel dating from the late 19th century with a varnish finish. This beautiful antique fire surround offers an understated look with a simple design, em...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Oak
Antique English Mahogany Fireplace
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A substantially constructed and beautifully decorated antique English mahogany fireplace of beautiful colour and quality, dating from the mid 19th century.
The simple lines and large-scale proportions of this antique mahogany fire surround...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
Early 20th Century Reclaimed Walnut Mantel
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A reclaimed 1920s fireplace of Bolection style, with a shelf. Manufactured by the renowned Bratt Colbran.
Additional dimensions:
Opening height 94 cm
Opening width 113.5 c...
Category
20th Century Wood Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
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