A George III Carved Pine Chimneypiece Mantel

A Georgian pine fire surround with composition (gesso) applied decoration. This surround was salvaged from a house near Salisbury. Additional Dimensions: Opening Height 114.5 c...

This beautiful fire surround was removed from a private residence in Harrogate. A superb example, without doubt the cleanest we have seen. In The Adam Style. Pine structure with lime...

A very wide George III pine fire surround with composition (Gesso) detailing. Additional Dimensions: Opening Height 116 cm Opening Width 170 cm Width between outside of l...

Of pine construction with applied composition detail. Additional Dimensions: Opening height 98 cm Opening width 107.5 cm Width between outside of foot blocks 151 cm.

A good quality surround, reclaimed from a property in Surrey. Additional Dimensions Opening Height 96.5 cm Opening Width 125 cm Width between outside of legs 148.5 cm.

This fire surround was reclaimed from a property in Edinburgh. Meaning: Opening Height 115.5 cm Opening Width 161.5 cm.

The central plaque depicts a pastoral scene with a shepherd and his flock resting beneath a tree. Bales of hale details decorate the corner blocks, from which garlands of bell flower...

A 19th century George III style pine fireplace with carved festoon centre of fruit, flowers and leaves, side panels with scrolls and foliage, dentil and leaf cornice, and carved flow...

A fine mid-18th century George II carved pine chimneypiece, the central tablet carved with the head of Aurora, God of the dawn in the sun burst of the new day, flanked by a frieze en...

An attractive 18th century George III pine fireplace. The frieze delicately carved with scrolled foliage to centre blocking and side panels. The jambs with carved tied ribbon with be...

A fine eighteenth century George III chimneypiece in statuary marble. The solid reverse breakfront shelf sits above a frieze which is delicately carved with a stylised foliate design...

This pine chimneypiece has a swan-neck pediment supporting three pedestals, with dentil and leaf borders. There is a central limewood oval portrait of Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney carved in relief and suspended by acanthus and tied ribbons. The frieze below is also applied with limewood carving of naval trophies, emblematic of seamanship and learning, flanking a central tablet depicting a reclining Marine Society boy. The supports are composed of large fluted columns with Ionic capitals and edged with egg and dart borders and leaf-carved mouldings. English, 1775. Provenance: Supplied by Mr. Tousey for the Committee Room of the Marine Society at No. 54 Bishopsgate Street, London, in April 1775 at a cost of £30.15s 6d removed to Clark’s Place, Bishopsgate Street, London, in 1891 Published: Woodman, Richard “…..of daring temper 250 years of the Marine Society.” London 2006, pp 24-25. Bosanquet, Henry T. A., The Marine Society, A Catalogue of the Pictures and other Works of Art, 1905, p. 14. The Marine Society is the world’s oldest public maritime charity and was the brainchild of Jonas Hanway. In 1756, at the beginning of the Seven Years’ War, he reflected on Britain’s woefully undermanned and ill-equipped navy. His idea was to ensure that young men and boys who wished to ‘learn the duty of seaman…shall be handsomely clothed and provided with bedding, and their charges born down to the ports where His Majesty’s Ships lye with all other proper encouragement.’ During the ensuing hostilities the Society equipped 5,140 men and 4,787 boys for the Navy. In 1793 Admiral Lord Nelson, a governor of the Society, requested 20 lads to join his 64-gun ship Agamemnon at Chatham. By the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, at least 15% of British naval manpower was being supplied, trained and equipped by the Marine Society. By 1774, the Society had outgrown its offices in the Royal Exchange and moved to 54 Bishopsgate Street. Detailed minutes of the weekly Committee meetings describe the furnishing of the Society’s new Committee Room, including ‘a carved chimneypiece...