Antique Satinwood Mantelpiece

An antique French marble and gilt bronze mantelpiece of exceptional quality and large scale. After a design by François Antoine Vassé (1681-1736) for the Salon d'Hercule of the Palace of Versailles, France.  Made from the finest and richest coloured Breccia Violleta marble with superbly cast 24-carat gold gilt bronze mounts. The solid marble jambs with gilt-bronze Nemean Lion masks at the top, these are under an arched frieze with a gilt-bronze centre cartouche depicting the mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt. Flanking Hercules are extremely well sculpted and flamboyant gilt-bronze cornucopias, also called 'the horn of plenty', a symbol of abundance and nourishment. Salon d'Hercule Beginning in 1724, work on the Salon d’Hercule recommenced. Louis XIV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel...

A very large antique carved oak and grey Bardiglio marble mantelpiece. This is an extremely well carved English Palladian style oak fireplace of g...

An antique French Carrara marble mantelpiece in the Louis XVI style. The swags of drapes frieze, centered by a plaque that is carved with a classical urn and arabesques. The square f...

Antique French statuary Carrara marble mantelpiece of large scale and great quality. This magnificent Napoleon III style mantelpiece is beautifully carved in the purest of white stat...

Antique black marble mantelpiece, model Modillion, from the late 19th century. This fireplace is richly decorated with acanthus leaves on and unde...

Very happy to be offering this rustic limestone trumeau fireplace mantel from the countryside of France. This lovely seized mantel works as a show st...

Neoclassical Statuary Marble Mantelpiece A beautiful, detailed and finely carved statuary white marble fireplace mantel in Neoclassical style. The superb molded shelf with perfect egg and dart edge decor sits over a finely carved frieze which is delicately carved with a stylized hanging foliate design. This is centered by a tablet depicting a trio of scenes with putto in various roles; affection, peace and jealousness. The endblocks show a sprawling bloom above a tapered block decorated with the feathered ends of arrow. The jambs echo the finely detailed frieze with floral motifs and wrapping leaves at the bottom. The inner moulded opening is superbly carved lambs...

A special 17th-century French Antique Castle Mantelpiece. Carved from exquisite light limestone, this monumental fireplace boasts traces of its original paint layer, evoking a sense ...