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Copper Fireplace Insert

Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Mantel Insert
Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Mantel Insert

Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Mantel Insert

$3,109

H 42.52 in W 32.92 in D 0.79 in

Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Mantel Insert

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

A reclaimed Arts and Crafts style copper insert with repoussé foliage decoration. It is an ornate

Category

Antique Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper, Metal

Arts & Crafts Copper Fire Insert with Hand Crafted Stylized Floral Decoration
Arts & Crafts Copper Fire Insert with Hand Crafted Stylized Floral Decoration

Arts & Crafts Copper Fire Insert with Hand Crafted Stylized Floral Decoration

Located in London, GB

A period English Arts & Crafts copper fire insert with handcrafted stylized floral decoration and

Category

Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper

Copper Fire Insert with a Figural Sculpted Roundel, Attributed to Alfred Stevens
Copper Fire Insert with a Figural Sculpted Roundel, Attributed to Alfred Stevens

Copper Fire Insert with a Figural Sculpted Roundel, Attributed to Alfred Stevens

By Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens

Located in London, GB

Alfred Stevens (attributed) probably for Hoole and Co., a copper fire insert with a figural

Category

Early 20th Century Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper

A large Arts and Crafts copper fire insert with a lion in a shield crest
A large Arts and Crafts copper fire insert with a lion in a shield crest

A large Arts and Crafts copper fire insert with a lion in a shield crest

Located in London, GB

A large Arts and Crafts copper insert with a crest of a Lion in a shield within a stylised floral

Category

Antique 1890s Great Britain (UK) Arts and Crafts Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper, Enamel

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19th Century, Victorian Carved Breche Marble Fireplace with Curved Copper Insert
19th Century, Victorian Carved Breche Marble Fireplace with Curved Copper Insert

19th Century, Victorian Carved Breche Marble Fireplace with Curved Copper Insert

Located in Lurgan, Northern Ireland

This Victorian breche marble fireplace surround has hand-carved recessed panels on the jambs and

Category

Antique 19th Century Northern Irish Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Marble, Copper

Large antique walnut wood mantel with copper insert, 19th c.
Large antique walnut wood mantel with copper insert, 19th c.

Large antique walnut wood mantel with copper insert, 19th c.

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H 129.93 in W 80.32 in D 25.2 in

Large antique walnut wood mantel with copper insert, 19th c.

Located in Saint Ouen, FR

with its original wrought copper insert, ornated with large foliages. The marble floor is not included.

Category

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Materials

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Fine Antique Limed Oak Georgian Carved Louis XV Fireplace Surround Copper Insert
Fine Antique Limed Oak Georgian Carved Louis XV Fireplace Surround Copper Insert

Fine Antique Limed Oak Georgian Carved Louis XV Fireplace Surround Copper Insert

Located in West Sussex, Pulborough

style fireplace with Arts & Crafts copper insert What a find! Have you ever seen another fireplace

Category

Antique 19th Century British Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Brass, Copper

c.1930 English Electric Fireplace Insert
c.1930 English Electric Fireplace Insert

c.1930 English Electric Fireplace Insert

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H 23.5 in W 17 in D 9.25 in

c.1930 English Electric Fireplace Insert

Located in BENSENVILLE, IL

Fantastic vintage English electric "faux fire" insert. This amazing device originally sat inside a

Category

Vintage 1930s English Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots

Materials

Copper, Brass

Antique Fireplace with Insert
Antique Fireplace with Insert

Antique Fireplace with Insert

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H 41.74 in W 53.15 in D 6.3 in

Antique Fireplace with Insert

Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland

Delightful French Louis XVI style fireplace mantel wit beautiful sunburst polished copper insert

Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

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Art Deco Copper and Brass Fire Insert
Art Deco Copper and Brass Fire Insert

Art Deco Copper and Brass Fire Insert

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H 33.47 in W 38.19 in D 5.12 in

Art Deco Copper and Brass Fire Insert

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

Art Deco copper and brass fire insert Opening height 63 cm, opening width 40 cm Weight 41 kg.

Category

Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Brass, Copper

Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Fire Mantel Insert
Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Fire Mantel Insert

Reclaimed Arts & Crafts Style Copper Fire Mantel Insert

Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire

A reclaimed Arts and Crafts style copper fire mantel insert. A distinctive insert with beautifully

Category

Antique Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper, Metal

An Art Nouveau Polished Copper Fire Screen with Glass Inserts
An Art Nouveau Polished Copper Fire Screen with Glass Inserts

An Art Nouveau Polished Copper Fire Screen with Glass Inserts

Located in Lambertville, NJ

A beautiful polished copper fire screen from the Art Nouveau period with class styling from the

Category

Vintage 1910s American Art Nouveau Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots

Materials

Copper

Antique Arts & Crafts Copper Fireplace Insert
Antique Arts & Crafts Copper Fireplace Insert

Antique Arts & Crafts Copper Fireplace Insert

Located in London, GB

A beautiful original fireplace insert in polished copper. This antique Arts & Crafts insert has a

Category

Antique Late 19th Century British Arts and Crafts Fireplaces and Mantels

Antique Edwardian Art Nouveau Cast Iron and Copper Fireplace Insert
Antique Edwardian Art Nouveau Cast Iron and Copper Fireplace Insert

Antique Edwardian Art Nouveau Cast Iron and Copper Fireplace Insert

Located in Manchester, GB

Antique Edwardian Art Nouveau cast iron fireplace interior with a polished copper adjustable canopy

Category

Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper, Iron

Arts & Crafts Copper Fireplace or Insert
Arts & Crafts Copper Fireplace or Insert

Arts & Crafts Copper Fireplace or Insert

Located in Heathfield, East Sussex

A beautifully designed Arts & Crafts copper fireplace or insert. Having a studded, domed central

Category

Antique Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Copper

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Copper Fireplace Insert For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the copper fireplace insert you’re looking for. Frequently made of copper, metal and brass, every copper fireplace insert was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer copper fireplace insert, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A copper fireplace insert made by Arts and Crafts designers — as well as those associated with Victorian — is very popular.

How Much is a Copper Fireplace Insert?

A copper fireplace insert can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,484, while the lowest priced sells for $690 and the highest can go for as much as $8,696.

Materials: Copper Furniture

From cupolas to cookware and fine art to filaments, copper metal has been used in so many ways since prehistoric times. Today, antique, new and vintage copper coffee tables, mirrors, lamps and other furniture and decor can bring a warm metallic flourish to interiors of any kind.

In years spanning 8,700 BC (the time of the first-known copper pendant) until roughly 3,700 BC, it may have been the only metal people knew how to manipulate.

Valuable deposits of copper were first extracted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus around 4,000 BC — well before Europe’s actual Bronze Age (copper + tin = bronze). Tiny Cyprus is even credited with supplying all of Egypt and the Near East with copper for the production of sophisticated currency, weaponry, jewelry and decorative items.

In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, master painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt and Jan Brueghel created fine works on copper. (Back then, copper-based pigments, too, were all the rage.) By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, decorative items like bas-relief plaques, trays and jewelry produced during the Art Deco, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau periods espoused copper. These became highly valuable and collectible pieces and remain so today.

Copper’s beauty, malleability, conductivity and versatility make it perhaps the most coveted nonprecious metal in existence. In interiors, polished copper begets an understated luxuriousness, and its reflectivity casts bright, golden and earthy warmth seldom realized in brass or bronze. (Just ask Tom Dixon.)

Outdoors, its most celebrated attribute — the verdigris patina it slowly develops from exposure to oxygen and other elements — isn’t the only hue it takes. Architects often refer to shades of copper as russet, ebony, plum and even chocolate brown. And Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano and Michael Graves have each used copper in their building projects.

Find antique, new and vintage copper furniture and decorative objects on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Fireplaces-mantels for You

While we likely wouldn’t mourn the invention of home heating and air-conditioning, these innovations did tragically reduce the widespread need for fireplaces and mantels in our living rooms.

Once an essential fixture in all homes, the fireplace, which, along with the chimney, is as old as the Middle Ages, was actually rendered redundant with the advent of the cast-iron heating stove during the 18th century. Victorian-era heating stoves were popular in the common areas of a living space for their capacity to heat as well as for their lack of smoke compared to fireplaces. However, improvements in craftsmanship as well as the Industrial Revolution meant that fireplaces were evolving in form and functionality.

Even as HVAC systems would eventually see to it that fireplaces weren’t a necessity, no mechanically engineered thermal heating and ventilation technology can replicate the feeling of warmth and camaraderie that a flickering fire guarantees. We just love a good fireplace.

“With antique fireplaces, you get heart, soul, character and architecture,” says Tony Ingrao, a Manhattan-based interior designer who purchased an important 16th-century French limestone fireplace for a client’s Greenwich Village townhouse.

Vintage fireplaces and mantels have earned their coveted position as desirable focal points in any room over the course of a staggering evolution in design that has yielded everything from intricately carved works of limestone to sleek works of wood paneling and rolled steel.

As log after log turns into ash, these iconic designs prove their timelessness and value, monetarily and as prized decorative monuments. Whether you seek to simply warm a space or completely transform it, an eye-catching new mantel for your blazing hearth — be it an elegant neoclassical design, a marvelous work of marble in the Louis XV style or an unconventional contemporary variation — is the perfect solution.

Find a collection of antique and vintage fireplaces and mantels on 1stDibs today.

Questions About Copper Fireplace Insert
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    A cast iron fireplace insert is a firebox that fits into an existing fireplace surround. The insert is made of cast iron, a type of iron that is more than 2 percent carbon. Cast iron is highly durable and very resistant to the effects of heat. You'll find a selection of cast iron fireplace inserts on 1stDibs.