Derbyshire Marble

An early 19th century circular tabletop composed of many different colored specimen marbles inlaid into a base of 'black marble'. The black marble base is actually a type of limeston...

Set of five Derbyshire black marble graduating obelisks, tapering columns with"patchwork" specimen marble inlay.

In 1794, John Mawe co-founded a business near London’s Covent Garden, which included trade in objects made of Ashford ‘Black Marble’. By 1800 he had established a ‘Free Museum’ at Ma...

A Regency period chimneypiece of simple form in Derbyshire Fossil and Carrara marble.

Unlike others of Mawe’s miniature monuments, which were fashioned in England of Derbyshire’s ‘Black Marble’, his Italian models were almost certainly made in Italy, probably in Volte...

A fine derbyshire pietra dura specimen marble table top, circa 1820.

A William IV Derbyshire black marble chimneypiece, the simple mantel above stepped frieze, flanked by shaped corbels, leading to reeded jambs on plain foot blocks.

A very fine, unusual and elegant English Regency drum clock in Derbyshire black marble and original mercury gilt ormolu.

Height: 30½in (77.5cm) Diameter: 34¼ in (87cm) Literature: John Michael Tomlinson, Derbyshire Black Marble, Ashbourne, 1996, p.61, shows a very similar table with a circular top exh...

A George IV Derbyshire limestone fireplace, the frieze with plain shelf on deep-moulded jambs and square footblocks. Measures : Opening width 91.5 cm x 101.5 cm high, outside jamb...

The Derbyshire black marble base has an applied ormolu mount of flowers and fruit to the front.

The mahogany cluster column legs below the frieze with twin drawers, Derbyshire fossil marble top. Paper label to the underside of the top, “From the ‘once a week’ quarry at Sheld...

Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, London, 1851, vol.II, p.769; item 80, BRIGHT, SELIM, BUXTON, DERBYSHIRE - MANUFACTURER ‘Black marble vases, exhibited for size, colour...

This is a wonderful Derbyshire Ashford marble thermometer, circa 1880 in date.

A Victorian Ashford Marble inlaid stone bracelet, set with pietra dura Ashford Marble plaques, from Derbyshire, with flowers on a black background, mounted in fire gilded gold with E...

A fine regency mahogany and ebonised side table attributed to George bullock, circa 1815. With later Derbyshire fossil marble top.

A VERY UNUSUAL GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE, CIRCA 1760. With later Derbyshire fossil marble top, the blind fret frieze on organic columnar legs headed by c-scroll brackets carved ...

Produced in Derbyshire, Ashford marble became closely associated with high quality Victorian decorative objects and was frequently incorporated into luxury boxes and desk accessories...

An attractive Ashford black and banded inlaid specimen marble Pietra Dura candlestick dating from the mid-19th century.

A collection of three exceptional "Grand Tour" mid-19th-century pietra dura mixed marble paperweights of plaque form composed of English Ashford Derbyshire black marble slabs inset w...

A fine & large antique black marble & specimen stone desk obelisk & thermometer, Ashford Derbyshire, circa 1860.

A fine & large antique black marble and specimen stone desk obelisk, Ashford Derbyshire, circa 1860.

A fine pair of antique black marble and specimen stone obelisks, Derbyshire, circa 1840.

A 19th century, fine & unusual blue John Urn (known as Derbyshire Spar) is a semi-precious mineral is a form of fluorite with bands of a purple-blue or yellowish colour, like this ex...

A rare & unusual blue john urn (also known as Derbyshire Spar) Polished & mounted on a marble base.

A simple but pleasing Antique Late Victorian arch spandrel fireplace surround, in Derbyshire Fossil Marble, complete with its original cast iron arch insert, all fully restored and r...

A good pair of English Derbyshire black marble and pietra dura candlesticks.

Pair of George IV oak and pollard oak bookcases with Derbyshire fossil marble tops, circa 1830.

A good, English, Regency fireplace in highly polished jet black Derbyshire marble. With plain squared rectangular shelf sitting directly on the pulvinated frieze, the rectangular end...

In the manner of Thomas Chippendale with rectangular frieze with blind fret carving and foliate carved apron with fossil Derbyshire marble top. Circa 1770.

Large but elegant antique Edwardian Derbyshire limestone fireplace surround with rosette carved capitals, reeded returns and black marble interruptions.

Antique Victorian Derbyshire limestone fireplace surround of simple form with a break front frieze, circa 1850.

These obelisks are made from the famous Derbyshire black marble and the hieroglyphics are "proud" of the marble and the surrounding marble must have been cut away either by hand or s...

There is a separate Black Ashford Marble Base for the Ewer to rest on. Black Ashford Marble is quarried in Derbyshire, although not of marble form, it polishes to a high finish.

A very elegant and unusual late 18th century English mantel in Italian statuary marble inlaid with Derbyshire Blue John, a semi-precious stone mined at Castleton in Derbyshire and us...

A large pair of Blue John chimney ornaments, English circa 1790-1800. Derbyshire spa statuary marble and Belgian black marble.

Among these were a line of architectural models, including Egyptian obelisks made of a distinctive English store – Derbyshire Black Marble; various Roman monuments, in Italian stores...

A late Victorian English mantel in derbyshire fossil marble with plain jambs and frieze, the former terminating in simple corbels supporting a plain mantel shelf.