Monumental French Renaissance Castle Fireplace Mantel - Acanthus & Volute Jambs
Located in Beervelde, BE
This authentic French Renaissance period fireplace surround is a monumental architectural piece, hand-carved from fine French limestone. Its natural stone color — a soft, warm grey-b...
Stone, Limestone
Large Victorian Oak Fire Mantel with Carved Jambs
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A handsomely crafted Victorian oak and hardwood fire mantel circa 1890. This large scale antique fire surround is brilliantly ornate, the jambs carved into elaborate columns below fl...
Wood, Oak
19th Century French Antique Limestone Fireplace Surround with Curved Jambs
Located in Beervelde, BE
This elegant 19th century French antique fireplace surround is carved from authentic beige limestone, a natural material known for its timeless beauty and durability.
Stone, Limestone
A Simple Yet Elegant Fireplace with Moulding to Frieze and Jambs
Located in London, GB
A simple yet elegant fireplace with moulding to frieze and jambs. Shaped shelf. Carved in Ancaster limestone. A copy of a 19th century original. Measures: Shelf width: 1352 mm 53 ¼"...
Stone
Rare Tall Bicolor Stone Fireplace to Elevate Any Interior Design
Located in Beervelde, BE
The bicolor brings an extra authentic character to this original decor fireplace mantel. The Jambs are curved. In great condition and ready to install.
Stone
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H 40.25 in W 44.5 in D 14.75 in
Statuary Marble Bow Fronted Louis XVI Style Mantel with Fluted Jambs
Located in New York, NY
A small statuary marble bow fronted Louis XVI mantel with fluted jambs. Opening dimensions: 29 1/4" W x 33 1/4" H.
Statuary Marble
Antique Georgian Walnut Fire Mantel with Column Jambs
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
This late 19th century antique Georgian fire mantel draws attention in any setting with its large scale and impressive jambs, each detailed with a pair of neoclassical style columns.
Walnut
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H 38.98 in W 41.74 in D 13 in
Small French Reclaimed Fireplace With Rectangular Top And Elegant Curved Jambes
Located in Beervelde, BE
19th century period antique French fireplace surround with a rectangular top and elegant curved jambs.
Stone
18th Century French Limestone Chimneypiece with Curved Jambs
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
Excellent condition for age. The depth can be reduced if required. Measures: Depth 30 cm – 59 cm The mantel is 30 cm deep. Opening height 91 cm Opening width 101 cm Weight 408 kg.
Limestone
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H 39.18 in W 50.01 in D 13.78 in
19th Century French Campagnard Limestone Fireplace with Sculpted Scroll Jambs
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
19th Century French Campagnard Limestone Fireplace with Sculpted Scroll Jambs With rustic charm and timeless silhouette, this 19th century French fireplace mantel exemplifies the wa...
Limestone
Modern Carrara Marble Frame Fireplace Mantel with Eared Jambs
By Jamb Ltd.
Located in London, GB
A reproduction hand carved frame chimneypiece in beautiful Carrara marble. The mould taken from an early 18th century, exceptionally fine chimneypiece with a large overmantel pedimen...
Marble
Modern Bolection Fireplace Mantel in Travertine Marble
By Jamb Ltd.
Located in London, GB
A reproduction hand carved bolection mould chimneypiece in unfilled travertine marble. Of diminutive scale, with a light, shallow bolection mould taken from an early 18th century ori...
Marble
Jamb Soane Reproduction Fireplace in White Statuary Marble
By Sir John Soane, Thomas Grundy
Located in London, GB
This white marble chimneypiece, minimalist in character, is based on the designs of Sir John Soane (1753–1837). Soane travelled to Italy in the late 18th century, before returning to...
Carrara Marble, Statuary Marble
Louis XVI style Statuary Venato mantel with fluted jambs (FR-NY86)
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI style Statuary Venato mantel with fluted jambs. Opening Dimensions: 36" W x 36" H
Exceptional Antique George III Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
This finely-detailed fireplace features a Siena marble frieze, flanked by rosette paterae, with a delightful centre tablet depicting a pair of exceptionally carved ‘Billing’ doves ag...
Marble
Antique Louis XVI Style Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
in veined white marble, the frieze with finely carved rope twist decoration. The canted fluted jambs capped by acanthus decorated blockings. The whole chimneypiece raised on foot blo...
Antique Regency Welsh Slate Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
An unusual 19th century Welsh slate Regency “Greek-Revival” chimneypiece. The frieze and jambs are decorated with recessed Greek key motifs and the end-blocks with stiff leaf paterae...
Slate
Antique 18th Century Kilkenny Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A late 18th century Kilkenny and statuary marble chimneypiece, possibly Irish. The moulded tiered shelf, fluted frieze centered with a tablet inlaid with sienna flutes and portoro ro...
Statuary Marble
Renaissance-Style Istrian Stone Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
The jambs in the form of Caryatid Armonini with bowed heads, wearing acanthus styled robes. The frieze which protrudes over their heads has cable filled flutes and acanthus at the co...
Antique French Louis XVI Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A French, 19th century Louis XVI style chimneypiece in veined Arabescato marble of typical rectangular shape. The frieze with a slightly rounded horizontal panel of leaves tied in th...
Marble
Antique Regency Period Column Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
An imposing, early 19th century, Regency period, statuary marble chimneypiece with moulded shelf, reeded frieze and blockings. The jambs in the form of robust tapering Ionic three qu...
Carrara Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique Neoclassical 18th Century Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
Off-white statuary and brocatello marbles. The frieze with plain panelled central section flanked by double Greek key frets in brocatello marble. The flanking end blockings in the fo...
Statuary Marble
Antique Louis XV Sarrancolin Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
An attractive, Louis XV (1715-1774) style and period, Sarrancolin marble chimney piece of superb color, with serpentine shelf and frieze, which is centered with a well sculpted acant...
Marble
Good English Regency Period Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A good English, Regency period chimneypiece in white statuary marble, with plain panelled frieze and pilaster shaped, rounded reeded jambs. The finely carved paterae end blocks inspi...
Statuary Marble
Antique 18th Century Neoclassical Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
An outstanding 18th century, white statuary marble, neoclassical chimney piece, of superb quality, sculpted to the very highest standard. Originally from Merrion Square, Dublin, Iris...
Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique Louis XV Style Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A Louis XV, William IV revival, chimneypiece of Campana Green marble with serpentine shelf. The frieze is decorated with typical Rococo carving of shell shaped cartouches and scrolli...
Marble
White Statuary Marble Regency Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
Each jamb bears carved figures of classical Bacchic maidens, one carrying the wine cup, symbolizing revelry and intoxication, the other is accompanied by a burning torch, symbolizing...
Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique Irish George III Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
This Irish 18th century chimneypiece originally removed from the Duke of York’s house in Hyde Park Corner after its demolition in the 1960s. This quintessentially Irish chimneypiece...
Antique Fireplace Mantel of Neoclassical Style
Located in London, GB
An exceptional 18th century Irish neoclassical chimneypiece of statuary marble, inlaid with Pietra Dura specimens of Rosso Antico, Verde and Kilkenny black. Almost certainly from the...
Marble, Statuary Marble
Palladian Style Antique Verde Antico Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A late 19th century, Verde Antico and statuary marble antique fireplace of an earlier mid-18th century design. Ex. Thimbleby Hall, Yorkshire, an 18th century house with later additio...
Stone, Cast Stone, Marble
An Antique Late 18th Century Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
in Statuary, Old English and Dove Grey marbles. This mantel originally designed for Arthurstone house, Perthshire exhibits close similarities to an Adam brother’s example in the Nor...
Antique French Statuary Century Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
Probably made for the emerging and prosperous American market with a bald headed eagle attacking a snake, circa 1880. With serpentine shelf and frieze which is centered with an eagl...
Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique Regency Belgian Black Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A Regency chimneypiece in Belgian black marble with bullseye corner blocks and carved jambs and frieze.
Belgian Black Marble, Marble
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.
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