Antique Georgian Period Statuary Marble Mantlepiece

An antique late 18th/ early 19th century Italian Statuary marble mantlepiece of fine quality Small in scale and beautifully made in Italy around the year 1800. The exquisitely carve...

Regency statuary marble fireplace of large scale and great quality. With full free standing Sienna marble columns, capped with egg and dart Doric capitals. In the centre of the friez...

An antique Statuary and Connemara marble fireplace from the late Georgian period. The white Italian Statuary Carrara marble frieze is inlaid with Irish green Connemara marble forming a continuous Greek key pattern. The flanking square end-blocks are finely carved with neo-classical decoration, these upheld by the tapering console...

Made from veined Carrara marble and white statuary marble. The centre plaque with a well carved mask of Apollo surrounded by a sunburst. The console jambs are under fluted corbels...

An unusual English marble fireplace with beautifully carved Aesops fable centre panel depicting the story of the Fox and the Stalk. The frieze with arched and dart detailing, with sw...

An English Georgian Statuary marble fireplace with Italian Siena inlay. The jambs with carved bell drops and foliage, with Siena inlay to ingrounds. The reeded frieze with Siena cent...

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...

An early to mid 19th c fireplace in Statuary white and jasper marbles. The fluted pilaster jambs stood on foot blockings, with Jasper marble ingrounds, surmounted by carve corner blo...