Imposing Period Georgian Fireplace in Calacatta Oro Marble

A fine quality copy of a mid 18th century fireplace. The barrel frieze with deeply carved flowing oak leaves. The moulded jambs and lintel with moulded shelf above. White marble in t...

A white marble fireplace in the late Georgian style. The frieze with carved centre blocking featuring quiver, torch and tied ribbon, with carved lyres to end blocks. Panelled frieze ...

A late Georgian style fireplace carved in white marble. The jambs and frieze ornamented with a continuous band of guilloche enclosing rosettes and carved leaf mouldings. The shelf with acanthus leaf, egg and dart and dentil detailings. Based on a design by James Adam...

A late Georgian style fireplace carved in white marble. The jambs and frieze ornamented with a continuous band of guilloche enclosing rosettes and carved leaf mouldings. The shelf with acanthus leaf, egg and dart and dentil detailings. Based on a design by James Adam...

An elegant antique chimneypiece in Statuary White marble, and inlaid Convent Sienna. The jambs having delicately carved panels of ribbon tied bell drops, scrolls, foliage and oval Pa...

An elegant 20th century Georgian style chimneypiece in statuary and inlaid sienna and brocatelle marble. The frieze beneath the breakfront shelf embellished with inlaid sienna fest...

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 late Georgian Statuary and Convent Sienna marble fireplace, circa 1800, the shelf with a simple mould above frieze with plaque centred by a female mask, the corner blocks of putti ...