1830s Architectural Elements

A pair of cast iron architectural balcony brackets of impressive weight and delicate design. English or American, c. 1830.

An early 19th Century, William IV chimneypiece in grey Bardiglio marble of architectural design. With simple plain slab frieze and jambs topped with ornamental baroque scallop shell...

American cast iron and gilt fire society marker. Baltimore, early 19th century Markers were placed on homes to prove coverage of fire insurance.

Antique Nero Belgio marble fireplace mantel.

Industrial foundry form, factory casting, beautiful silver zinc original paint, wonderful patina, stepped Art Deco design, would make an amazing coffee/cocktail table. See other listings for additional foundry molds. Foundry molds and patterns are wooden tools, carved out or built up to create negative space, which in turn is used to make the inverse form or shape to be used for the casting of metal. To make a wooden mold, wood needs to be stacked up, like a relief, or cut-out, like a sunken relief, with handles or other pieces to grab and pick up the mold from the molding material. Individual pattern pieces that get packed into the molding material are carved and shaped. The space or forms that these pieces make in the molding material will be the inverse of the final cast piece. These antique foundry molds...

Early 19th century white painted intricated carved wall bracket. Ornamented with griffins.

The rectangular mantelpiece above a recessed panel-carved frieze flanked by roundel-carved blocks on shaped reeded jambs, French, circa 1830.