18th Century Statuary and Convent Sienna Marble Fireplace Mantel

A Regency style fireplace from the mid 19th century executed in Italian Statuary white and Siena marbles. The jambs with inset Siena panels supported on foot blocks, terminating with...

A Statuary white and Portoro marble fireplace from the early 19th century English Regency period. The jambs with inlaid panels of Italian black and gold Portoro marble, stood on sepa...

An elegant antique chimneypiece in Statuary White marble, and inlaid Convent Sienna. The jambs having delicately carved panels of ribbon tied bell drops, scrolls, foliage and oval Pa...

A late 18th century English statuary marble chimneypiece with columns and panels in a grey spar marble. A plain centre tablet flanked on either side by the blue/grey spar marble pane...

A good quality mid-19th century English, George III style chimneypiece. Constructed from White Statuary, Sienna and Breccia marbles, with carved Statuary marble end blocks. Reclaimed...

Nineteenth century neo-classical fireplace in the George III style, the stepped shelf above fluted frieze centred by plaque carved in relief depciting Cupid...

A characterful George III column chimneypiece in statuary, sienna and jasper marbles, with a large and well-carved centre tablet of Virtue and Vice, circa 1765. The breakfront tiere...

Provenance: 32 Belgrave Square, thought to have been installed by David Hicks. A late 18th century style chimneypiece in Statuary and Siena marbles of truly exceptional quality. The moulded shelf, carved with dentils and Egg & Dart, breaks forward above the central tablet and square corner blocks. The tablet depicts a scene of Bacchic putti dancing and revelling with music, some holding grapes and ewers of wine, one holding a Thrysus, a spear headed by an acorn often carried by Bacchus, to the right a putto has the legs of a goat, and centred with a putto riding a finely carved ram. The tablet flanked by a frieze decorated by alternating finger flutes inlaid with Siena, and carved finely carved bows and flowers. The cornerblocks, carved to the front with Roman urns, sit above composite Ionic columns, also inlaid with Siena flutes. The columns are fully detached in the round, on turned socle plinths above square footblocks. The convent Siena is of particularly noteworthy quality. The Ram is emblematic in classical and Georgian sculpture...