Antique 18th Century Georgian Coadestone Fireplace Mantle

An attractive late 18th century, Scottish chimneypiece of statuary and variegated grey and black flecked marbles, circa 1795. Originally from Thriepley House, Scotland With simple b...

An antique 19th Century French Empire statuary marble fireplace of unusual design, decorated with Ormolu mounts. The rectangular shelf with rounded corners, the frieze with an inset ...

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...

A George I early 18th century frame chimneypiece in dark Italian Bardiglio marble, punctuated by bed moudlings in statuary. The frieze and jambs incised with fielded panels, centred ...