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18th Century Marble Mantelpiece Designed by Isaac Ware for Chesterfield House
By Isaac Ware
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
The frieze having curved panels of verde antico, overlaid with foliate scrolls of statuary marble. The centre plaque which is dog leg in shape depicts Flora, goddess of flowers and the season of spring, flanked by swags of oak leaves and acorns. The full tapering columns of verde antico marble are fluted and capped with finely carved ionic capitals.
This fireplace is considered to be one of the finest and most important 18th century fireplaces to come to the market in recent years. Ryan and Smith have acquired it from the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Walter P Chrysler Jr., renowned collector of antiques and fine art, purchased the fireplace from the well-known Mayfair antiques dealer Stanley J Pratt Limited, 27 Mount Street, London. Stanley J Pratt removed the chimneypiece from the drawing room of Linton Park Kent after the Owner (Olaf Hambro’s) death in 1961, its featured in a Country life article from April 5th 1946 (see additional images). The chimneypiece is also illustrated in Connoisseur magazine 1963 Vol. 154, no. 620, which states “Originally in the Drawing room of Chesterfield House Mayfair, attributed to Isaac Ware...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Palladian Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Ryan & Smith Russborough, Large Palladian Portland Stone Fireplace
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Hand carved from solid blocks of English Portland stone. The front and side consoles have carved acanthus leaf decoration. The wide framed in-grounds, architrave and cornice moulding...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Palladian Fireplaces and Ma...
Materials
Stone
Irish Corbel Black Marble Fireplace
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A black Kilkenny marble fireplace surround.
This fireplace is in the early 19th century Irish Regency style. It has cushion moulded panels running into corbels, tapering aperture and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Irish Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Antique French Statuary Carrara Marble Mantel
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An antique French figurative Statuary Carara marble mantel in the Louis XV style. This rare and remarkable French chimneypiece features boldly carved female terms and an intricately ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Regency Style Bullseye Statuary Marble Fireplace Surround
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A pure white marble fireplace of early 19th century design, popular in both Ireland and England during this period
A design which clearly stood th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Regency Style Statuary Marble Fireplace Mantel
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A late Regency style fireplace made from Italian Statuary Carrara marble. handcrafted in our Northern Irish workshop from imported Italian Statuary Carrara marble, faithfully copied ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Irish Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Magnificent Antique Limestone Mantel
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Each jamb of the fireplace has a brown bear standing on a plinth holding a heraldic shield. Above the bears are carved capitals supporting a substantial breakfront cornice shelf. The...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Gothic Revival Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Limestone
Antique Venetian Renaissance Marble Mantel
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
The serpentine shaped frieze has incredibly fine carvings of fabulous Renaissance ornament. The centre cartouche is upheld by male figures terminating in scrolling acanthus leaf’s, these flanked by dragons amongst foliage and female figures on each of the curved corners.
The frieze upheld by highly carved baluster shaped pedestals on Rosso Verona jambs.
Made from Pietra d’Istria marble and Rosso Verona marble.
Photographed in un-restored original condition, can be cleaned if preferred,
circa 1830
Provenance: Talygarn house in Wales, rebuilt during the 19th century by George Thomas Clarke, industrialist, ironmaster for Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Fireplaces and Ma...
Materials
Marble
Georgian Style Marble Fireplace by Ryan & Smith
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Georgian neoclassical style pure white marble fireplace. This fireplace was copied from a Georgian original made by George Hill and Author Darley of Mercer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Man...
Materials
Statuary Marble
$12,388 / item
Antique Statuary and Portoro Marble Fireplace in the Regency Style
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An antique Statuary and Portoro marble fireplace in the English Regency Greek revival style
The white statuary marble corner blocks carved with stylised lotus and acanthus leafs. ...
Category
Antique 1830s English Greek Revival Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Antique George II Period Marble Mantelpiece in the Manner of William Kent
By William Kent
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Made from veined Carrara marble and white statuary marble.
The centre plaque with a well carved mask of Apollo surrounded by a sunburst. The console jambs are under fluted corbels...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Palladian Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Ryan & Smith Georgian Style Limestone Fireplace
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Georgian neoclassical style hand carved limestone fireplace. This fireplace was copied from a Georgian original made by George Hill and Author Darley of Me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Man...
Materials
Limestone
$11,012 / item
Antique French Mantelpiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An antique French marble and gilt bronze mantelpiece of exceptional quality and large scale. After a design by François Antoine Vassé (1681-1736) for the Salon d'Hercule of the Palace of Versailles, France.
Made from the finest and richest coloured Breccia Violleta marble with superbly cast 24-carat gold gilt bronze mounts. The solid marble jambs with gilt-bronze Nemean Lion masks at the top, these are under an arched frieze with a gilt-bronze centre cartouche depicting the mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt. Flanking Hercules are extremely well sculpted and flamboyant gilt-bronze cornucopias, also called 'the horn of plenty', a symbol of abundance and nourishment.
Salon d'Hercule
Beginning in 1724, work on the Salon d’Hercule recommenced. Louis XIV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XIV Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
$275,563
Antique Black Bulls-Eye Fireplace
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An antique black marble fireplace from the Regency period.
With bulls-eye roundels at the top of tall pilasters with no plinths. The cushion molded frieze with reeded shelf on top. ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Georgian Style Marble Fireplace
By Ryan & Smith Ltd.
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A pure white marble fireplace of refined late Georgian design.
The wide molded frame is carved with finger flutes that come to a mitre in each corner, this with cornice shelf restin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Northern Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Man...
Materials
Marble
$8,259 / item
Antique Irish Marble Fireplace
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Impressive mid-19th century carved statuary marble fireplace. The fireplace has a deep and moulded break fronted shelf, upheld by two large carved corbels with perched eagles, preeni...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Irish Early Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Antique Marble Fireplace in the George III Neoclassical Style
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
The carved urn centre tablet is flanked by frieze panels inlaid with black, Brocatelle and Sienna marbles, the inlay depicts chains of bell-flowers upheld by corner rings and centre ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English George III Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble
Antique French Carrara Marble Mantelpiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Antique French statuary Carrara marble mantelpiece of large scale and great quality. This magnificent Napoleon III style mantelpiece is beautifully carved in the purest of white stat...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Antique Oak Mantelpiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A large antique English carved oak mantelpiece in the Palladian style. With full rounded and fluted Doric columns, egg and dart mouldings and a carved ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Palladian Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
$13,089
Antique French Carrara Marble Mantelpiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An antique French Carrara marble mantelpiece in the Louis XVI style. The swags of drapes frieze, centered by a plaque that is carved with a classical urn and arabesques. The square f...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large Antique Wooden Mantelpiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A very large antique carved oak and grey Bardiglio marble mantelpiece.
This is an extremely well carved English Palladian style oak fireplace of g...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Palladian Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Irish Georgian Sienna Marble Fireplace
By George and Hill Darley 1
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Superb quality Irish George III neoclassical marble fireplace. Made from pure white Italian statuary Carrara marble, inlaid with richly c...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Irish George III Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble, Siena Marble
George II Irish Baroque Marble Chimneypiece
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Carved from three pieces of Dove grey marble. The jambs and frieze having raised and fielded panels. The keystone carved with an oyster shell and the corners with stylized rosettes. This fireplace reflects the work of Irish stone...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Irish Baroque Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Windsor Regency Style Marble Fireplace
By John Sloan
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A very strong architecturally styled marble chimneypiece with geometric design, based on a model by one of Britain’s most influential architects, John Soane. His architectural style incorporated Palladian elements, as well as forms from Italian baroque and Inigo Jones.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Irish Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Antique Louis XV Black Marble Fireplace
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Antique Louis XV style fireplace in Belgian black marble
The deep moulded mantelpiece rests above a panelled serpentine frieze, which is centred by a carved Rococo style clam shell ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Belgian Louis XV Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Belgian Black Marble
Antique Hob Grate
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Antique Georgian brass and iron hob grate with moulded brass pilasters, chamfered side cheeks and apron. The iron back plate is highly decorative and beautif...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Regency Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Brass, Iron
$12,388
Antique Regency Statuary Marble Fireplace
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Regency statuary marble fireplace of large scale and great quality. With full free standing Sienna marble columns, capped with egg and dart Doric capitals. In the centre of the friez...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Regency Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
Antique Carved White Statuary Marble Fireplace
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
The fireplace features beautifully carved corbels set on canted jambs, scrolled and carved with floral detail at the bottom. The deep shelf is serpentine s...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English William IV Fireplaces and Mantels
Grey Bardiglio Antique Marble Fireplace
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A grey Bardiglio marble fireplace from the late Georgian period.
The free-standing Doric columns support corner blockings carved with ovals, whist the deep mantelpiece rests on th...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Irish Georgian Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
