Antique English Statuary Fireplace With Inlaid Sienna & Jasper Marble

A fine quality Statuary white marble fireplace with Italian Sienna marble inlay. The delicately carved frieze featuring scrolled leaves and bellflowers, with central female figures s...

A well proportioned English Georgian fireplace. The fluted frieze with center block of reclining Venus and winged Cupid, the side blockings with the Cupid playing musical instrument....

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 large and opulent early 19th Century Georgian manner fireplace surround well carved in Statuary & Sienna marble reminiscent of the style after William Chambers. This truly remarkable piece features a beautifully carved central tablet depicting a foliage motif with a centralised urn. The aperture of this impressive fireplace is surrounded by sienna marble in-grounds displaying beautiful tones of this exotic and sought after marble. The frieze is flanked on either end by capitals displaying high relief urns...