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Large 19th Century Victorian Scottish Slate Corbeled Fireplace Surround.

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Large 19th Century Victorian Scottish Slate Corbeled Fireplace Surround.

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A large and grand 19th Century Victorian Scottish Ballachulish slate fireplace surround. A generous top shelf with a moulded edge rests above a recessed panelled frieze the recessed edges with corvetto detail, this is in turn flanked by wide recessed panelled jambs each hosting a large geometric corbel with fine shell underscores. The whole resting on moulded foot blocks. Edinburgh, Scotland 1880c Fire opening size: 1015mm high x 1025mm wide. Each leg width: 345mm Overall base width: 1710mm Shown with a Victorian insert available separately on our 1st dibs listings. Ballachulish Slate. Once called the “Slate Capital of Scotland,” for over three hundred years Ballachulish was a juggernaut of the Scottish slate industry, producing more than half of all domestic slates quarried at the turn of the last century. At its height the mine employed over 500 workers, many of whose decedents still live in the area today. Yet just 50 years after its zenith the quarry would close, a casualty of the collapse of the Scottish slate trade. Slate is produced through a two-step process: compaction and metamorphism. This begins when fine grained sediments settle into layers at the bottom of a body of water. 550 million years ago Scotland, or rather, the area that would eventually become Scotland, was under the ancient Iapetus Ocean. We know this partly thanks to the abundance of slate found throughout the country today. Over time, the layers of sediment were flattened by the weight of the material above and became compacted, squeezed tighter and tighter until they formed a whole new rock. This new rock, a mudstone or siltstone, was then placed under an incredible amount of pressure when the continents around the Iapetus Ocean crashed into one another. The rocks were super-heated, stretched, folded, and flattened through a process called “metamorphism,” until they finally settled into overlapping shelfs of slate. Incredibly, all this movement strengthened the minerals in the rock, making Scottish slate some of the strongest in the world!

Dimensions:
Height: 51.38 in (130.5 cm)Width: 77.96 in (198 cm)Depth: 14.57 in (37 cm)
Style:
Victorian (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Slate,Carved
Place of Origin:
Scotland
Period:
1880-1889
Date of Manufacture:
1880c
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Edinburgh, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3296140042982

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