NYC Waldorf Astoria Hotel Marble Mantel Suite 13K Neoclassical Verde Antico

A captivating marble mantel combining white and green shades with subtle gray and tan veining across its white base. Painstakingly carved from Carrara marble, it is elegantly adorned...

Hand carved in France, this mantel was brought over and installed in 1931 in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Towers on Park Avenue in Suite 37M. Minor surface wear and staining. Some inlay...

Early 20th century hand carved marble mantel made from gray and white veined marble. Each side features a fluted design and floral top corners. This mantel was brought over from Fran...

Presenting a marble mantel with an understated yet distinct design, featuring intricately carved acanthus leaf motifs and a solitary round floral motif at the center of its apron. De...

Early 20th Century English Regency style hand carved marble mantel featuring very simple carved line detailing across the front apron and corners also along both vertical legs. The g...

19th century English Regency marble mantel. Part of a group of hand carved antique mantels imported from Europe and installed in the NYC Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Ave prior to it...

George III style Statuary and Verde Antico marble chimneypiece, early twentieth century, the inverse breakfront shelf above inlaid frieze centred by relief carved frieze of the Godde...

An early 19th century bolection chimneypiece in the dramatic verde antico marble. The classic form of the bolection is the perfect foil for the drama of the deep green verde antico m...

A 19th century statuary and Antico Verde marble fireplace in an earlier neoclassical style. With a tiered and moulded shelf above the double Gre...

A pleasing and bold 19th century fireplace surround displaying a two tone combination of Verde Antico marble with Statuary marble corb...

A 19th century Carrara and Verde Antico marble chimneypiece In the George III style The inverted breakfront shelf with dentil cornice above a ribbon tied and medallion hung bell husk garlanded frieze with central tablet carved with a draped pedestal...

A large and masculine 19th century arched fireplace surround carved in rich vareated Verde Antico marble, a generous double thick bullnose shelf rests above a stepped and moulded under cornice, supported by a raised scalloped fluted keystone, and flanked by a pair of large spandrels each carved with relief shaped fielded panels and moulding. Quarter round side returns connect to deep revels, all resting on large shaped foot blocks with Belgian Black Marble insert cappings, a splendid and exceptional example shown with its original highlighted arch cast iron insert. Scottish, circa 1895 Arch opening size: 908mm high x 1033mm wide. Overall base block width: 1828mm Marble notes: Verde Antico marble is a breccia of serpentinite, schistose calc-silicate and crystallite marble clasps in a lime-green serpentine matrix, from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece, the quarries were re-opened sometime between 1895- 1905, for the first time since the reign of the Emperor Justinian (483-565) A similar type marble has been obtained in later years from Northern Italy that was both cheaper and faster to extract. Examples of this can be found all over the world, circa 1930 Cartier...