Skip to main content

Fireplaces and Mantels

to
41
421
44
464
4
2
Height
to
Width
to
562
442
434
325
308
301
109
101
84
83
54
52
39
26
13
2
1
1
196
234
34
6
5
2
7
1
1
1
290
231
163
142
46
461
379
30
20
19
470
467
467
2
1
1
Fireplaces and Mantels For Sale
Style: Louis XV
Style: Early Victorian
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Rouge Royal Marble Mantel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning French 18th century Louis XV Period Rouge Royal marble mantel. The volute jambs support a swept frieze with an extremely well carved central Rocaille shell reserve within ...
Category

18th Century French Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Marble

French 18th Century Louis XV Period Rouge Royal Marble Mantel
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Rouge Royal Marble Mantel

French 18th Century Louis XV Period Rouge Royal Marble Mantel

French 19th Century Louis XV Style Stone Mantel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very decorative French Louis XV st. marble mantel. The volute and partially fluted legs support a swept frieze with a central shell with a cabochon. On each end of the bandeau is a...
Category

19th Century French Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Stone

French 19th Century Louis XV Style Stone Mantel
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Stone Mantel

French 19th Century Louis XV Style Stone Mantel

A 19th Century Rococo Chimneypiece in Louis XV Style
Located in London, GB
An elaborate 19th century Rococo chimneypiece in Louis XV style with an elegant, moulded shelf. The fine asymmetric serpentine frieze presents a central cartouche in the shape of a s...
Category

Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Statuary Marble

A 19th Century Rococo Chimneypiece in Louis XV Style
A 19th Century Rococo Chimneypiece in Louis XV Style

A 19th Century Rococo Chimneypiece in Louis XV Style

Pair of 19th Century Brass Fire Dogs Modeled as Cherubs
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Pair of 19th Century brass fire dogs in the Louis XV style modeled as seated cherubs with outstretched arms. Each sits on a semicircular shelf with fringed and pierced drapery detail...
Category

Late 19th Century European Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Metal, Brass

Pair of 19th Century Brass Fire Dogs Modeled as Cherubs
Pair of 19th Century Brass Fire Dogs Modeled as Cherubs

Pair of 19th Century Brass Fire Dogs Modeled as Cherubs

French Early 19th Century Louis XV Style Limestone Fireplace Mantel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning French early 19th century Louis XV st. limestone fireplace mantel. The mantel is raised by beautiful jambs, each decorated with mottled recessed designs. The arbalest shap...
Category

19th Century French Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Limestone

French Early 19th Century Louis XV Style Limestone Fireplace Mantel
French Early 19th Century Louis XV Style Limestone Fireplace Mantel

French Early 19th Century Louis XV Style Limestone Fireplace Mantel

Louis XV Style Noir De Mazy Antique Fireplace
Located in Oostvoorne, NL
Every career has highlights. And this fireplace is one of them. In 20 active years in the fireplaces and mantelpiece restoration, this is a story worth telling. My love for Noir de Mazy...
Category

19th Century Belgian Louis XV Antique Fireplaces and Mantels

Materials

Belgian Black Marble

Louis XV Style Noir De Mazy Antique Fireplace
Louis XV Style Noir De Mazy Antique Fireplace

Louis XV Style Noir De Mazy Antique Fireplace

Antique and Vintage Fireplaces and Mantels

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.

Find a collection of antique and vintage fireplaces and mantels on 1stDibs today.

Recently Viewed

View All