Irish Georgian Sienna Marble Fireplace

An antique neo-classical style marble chimneypiece from the late Georgian period. The tapering pilasters are inlaid with panels of Scottish Isla Rosa Tiree marble and overlaid with ...

An exceptional antique carved white statuary marble chimneypiece from the late Georgian period. With full free standing and fluted ionic columns under carved putti corner blocks. A substantial egg and dart cornice shelf...

Georgian neoclassical style pure white marble fireplace. This fireplace was copied from a Georgian original made by George Hill and Author Darley of Mercer...

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...

The frieze centred with a carved centre tablet with a sphinx mounted urn and ribbon tied swags flanked by inlaid roundels and swags, the end blocks carved with drapery hung urns with...

This is a Georgian revival marble fireplace. An English, fire surround with mantelpiece in the classical taste by Dominic Hurley, dat...

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...