19th Century Victorian Style Fireplace Surround in Verde Tinos Marble

An elegant and detailed Regency style richly veined Verde Tinos & Statuary marble fireplace surround with bronze ormolu mounts. A reeded top shelf sits abo...

A pleasing and bold 19th century fireplace surround displaying a two tone combination of Verde Antico marble with Statuary marble corb...

A large and masculine 19th century arched fireplace surround carved in rich vareated Verde Antico marble, a generous double thick bullnose shelf rests above a stepped and moulded under cornice, supported by a raised scalloped fluted keystone, and flanked by a pair of large spandrels each carved with relief shaped fielded panels and moulding. Quarter round side returns connect to deep revels, all resting on large shaped foot blocks with Belgian Black Marble insert cappings, a splendid and exceptional example shown with its original highlighted arch cast iron insert. Scottish, circa 1895 Arch opening size: 908mm high x 1033mm wide. Overall base block width: 1828mm Marble notes: Verde Antico marble is a breccia of serpentinite, schistose calc-silicate and crystallite marble clasps in a lime-green serpentine matrix, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece, the quarries were re-opened sometime between 1895- 1905, for the first time since the reign of the Emperor Justinian (483-565) A similar type marble has been obtained in later years from Northern Italy that was both cheaper and faster to extract. Examples of this can be found all over the world, circa 1930 Cartier...

A generous sized 19th Century Victorian Calacatta marble fireplace surround. The thick square edged shelf over an unadorned frieze, flanked ...

An elegant 19th century Victorian style statuary marble corbel fireplace surround. A finely carved reeded top shelf sits above a recessed panel...

A Scottish 19th century Victorian pencil veined Carrara marble fireplace surround. A classic Scottish design in a prominent well figured marble. A squ...

A Nineteenth century Verde Tinos fireplace, French or Italian, the frieze centred with cartouche and trails of flowers carved in relief, raised on scrolled jambs. Dimensions: 120cm ...

Large Victorian statuary white marble fireplace surround with and arched aperture and heavily carved corbels supporting the serpentine ...

An arched Victorian fireplace surround of good proportions in Carrara marble. The squared edge mantle sits above a plain keystone. The spandrels carved with a four point star within ...

Large antique 19th century Victorian white marble fireplace with reeded legs and sectioned frieze. Circa 1850. Removed from a fine pro...

Large antique mid-Victorian Carrara marble fireplace surround with arched aperture. Fielded panels to the spandrels are flanked by quarter round outside fillets and meet at the flute...

Antique 19th-century Carrara marble fireplace surround of simple form and good proportions. With unadorned square capitals flanking the frieze and above plain jambs. Circa 1880. Thi...