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Place of Origin: British
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Brass Railed Swag Decorated Nursery Guard
Located in Greenwich, CT
A fireplace nursery guard with narrowly spaced vertical ironwork decorated with swags around the top and two center scrolls, on iron base and rod supports, and topped with a brass rail...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron, Brass
Victorian Arched Marble Mantel with St. Annes Marble Corbels ‘VIC-W67’
Located in New York, NY
Original Victorian arched marble mantel with incised panels and corbels in St Annes marble. Opening dimensions: 37.5" W x 35.63" H.
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
19th Century Extendable Brass Club Fender
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century extendable brass club fender complete with brown leather seat finished with elegant, buttoned detail.
Category
19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass
Antique English Firegrate
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
A large antique steel fire grate.
Lovely and impressive formal piece that would work great in a larger mantel.
It has some lovely decorative and traditional urns on top of tapered...
Category
19th Century George II Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Steel, Wrought Iron
A carved fire surround from Sir Winston Churchill’s drawing room
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A carved fire surround from Sir Winston Churchill’s drawing room. This carved pine fire surround combines elements of both Rococo and Palladian designs. It has a shaped cornice abov...
Category
1910s Vintage British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
A George III carved pine chimneypiece from The Marine Society by Tousey, 1775
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
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...
Category
1770s Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
Antique Bolection Fireplace
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Very nice and attractive English moulded bolection fireplace in warm and soft toned wood.
Great condition and easy to install.
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
Fine Georgian Carved Chimneypiece
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine George III period carved pine mantel, the pediment with stepped ends having band of ringed rosettes over dentil molded frieze over two scrolls with acanthus and water leaf ...
Category
18th Century Adam Style Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
George III Steel Fire Dogs
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An antique pair of George III steel fire dogs.
These steel fire dogs have front supports shaped like short tongs with urn and baluster finials.
Category
Early 1800s George III Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Steel
English Adam Painted Wood Mantel
Located in New York, NY
English Adam-style (1920s) white painted wood fireplace mantel with carved swag and tassel relief.
Category
Early 20th Century Adam Style British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood
English Country House Brass Railed Iron Firescreen
Located in Greenwich, CT
An English 19th c. country house iron firescreen featuring heavy cross-hatched wire mesh, brass top rail, an elongated shape and slim depth.
Category
1860s Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
19th Century Antique Set of Long Steel Fire Tools
Located in London, GB
A fine set of ealry 19th century steel firetools of unusually long form, comprising a poker, tongs and shovel.
Category
19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Steel
A Mid- 19th Century Antique Set of Long Steel Fire Tools
Located in London, GB
A particularly fine set of mid 19th century English steel fire tools or irons, comprising shovel, tongs and a poker. With foliate and fluted handles, the shovel with pierced decorat...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Steel
Massive Brass Club Fender
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine early 20th century heavy gauge brass club fender, currently upholstered in as found buck suede, having square brass supports over molded brass b...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass
Cast Iron, Steel, Copper and Brass Fire Grate
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A cast iron, steel, copper and brass fire grate, cast with winged griffins.
The architectural back cast with roundel and ribbon tied pendant swags,...
Category
19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Copper, Steel, Iron
Tall Steel Railed Iron Nursery Guard
Located in Greenwich, CT
A large fireplace guard with heavy iron cross hatched wire netting and iron base and rod supports topped by a steel rail. Known as a nursery guard as it is not meant as a spark guard...
Category
19th Century Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Steel, Wrought Iron
George III Period Carrara Marble and Sienna Marble Chimney Piece
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A George III Period carrara marble and sienna marble chimney piece.
This delicately carved a beautifully detailed fireplace has a breakfront shelf with inverted moulded edge. The ...
Category
18th Century George III Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Fine Neo Classical Georgian Period White Statuary and Siena Marble Mantel
Located in Montreal, QC
Exquisite Georgian period , white statuary and siena marble fireplace mantel, featuring beautifully carved Neo-Classical attributes , the center cartouche depicting a cherub Cupid pl...
Category
1780s Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble
Important Neo-Classical Georgian Period White Statuary and Siena Marble Mantel
Located in Montreal, QC
Important Georgian period fireplace mantel, white statuary marble and inset with Siena . The finely carved Neo -Classical attributes featuring a central cartouche relief cavings of a...
Category
1770s Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble
18th Century George II Sienna and White Statuary Marble Fire Surround
Located in Dublin 8, IE
A very rare 18th century George II sienna and white statuary marble fire surround in the manner of Louis XV, designed by Isaac Ware. Principally of well figured sienna marble with st...
Category
1740s George II Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble
Pair of Charles II Style Armorial Firedogs
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of Charles II style, enamel brass and cast iron armorial firedogs, in the manner of Anthony Hatch and Stephen Pilcherd.
Each firedog is decorated with red, blue and white enamel, the upperpart bearing the arms of Charles II or James II, the middle part formed of two nude male figures supporting the arms with a vase of flowers between them, the lower portions in the form of two convex disks decorated with flowers, with wrought iron supports.
They are modelled after an example in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, formerly belonging to the Earl of Cowley. For a long time, their method of production -whereby the fields to be enameled were cast in the original moulds and not, as was more common, engraved (champlévé) or enclosed (cloisonné) - was referred to as Surrey Enamels after the author Charles R. Beard ascribed their manufacture to a factory in Esher, Surrey. However, documentary evidence makes a strong case for their reattribution to the London workshops of Anthony Hatch and Stephen Pilcherd, members of the Armourers' and Braziers' Company (see C. Blair and A. Petterson, 'Details for Surrey Enamels Reattributed (Part 1)', Journal of the Antique Metalware...
Category
19th Century Charles II Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Iron
Victorian Bronze Faux Bamboo Fire Screen
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian bronze faux bamboo fire screen with wire mesh swivel center panel.
Category
Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Mantel in Viened Cararra, 'VIC-T64'
Located in New York, NY
A late 19th century mantel in an attractively veined Carrara marble with arched opening centred with a key stone flanked by fielded panels and plain pilasters.
Opening dimensions: 3...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
English Brass and Iron Nursery Guard - 30 1/2" wide
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine mid-19th century English brass and iron fire screen or nursery guard having half round brass rail over wrought iron framework with iron wire mesh having swag decoration, retaini...
Category
Mid-19th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron, Wire
Victorian Papier-mâché Lacquered Fire Screen
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian papier-mâché pearl inlaid black lacquered fire screen with needlepoint panel depicting a bird sitting on a floral spray.
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Tapestry, Mother-of-Pearl
Pair of 18th Century Rococo Gilt Bronze Andirons, Firedogs, Ormolu Chenets
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An exceptional pair of 18th century English Rococo gilt bronze andirons or fire dogs.
The bold shape of these andirons relate to designs of Thomas Johnson (1714–1778), one of London's pioneers of the 'Modern' or French style, later known as Rococo. In the 1750s he published several books of designs which were widely used for things like ceiling moulding. These books include 12 Girandoles in 1755, The Book of the Carver in 1758 and monthly between 1755 and 1758, 150 New Designs. He also had a great influence on Ince and Mayhew's book, The Universal System...
Category
18th Century Rococo Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Bronze
19th Century English Nursery Guard - 38 1/2" Wide
Located in Greenwich, CT
19th century English brass railed wrought iron and wirework nursery guard with wide "fish-net" mesh. A decorative addition to a fireplace.
Category
Mid-19th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron, Wire
Important George III Style Carved White Marble Fireplace, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important George III style carved white marble fireplace.
English, circa 1900.
This elegant fireplace comprises many neoclassical features, characteristic of the Georgian pe...
Category
Late 19th Century George III Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
18th Century Cast Iron Half Hob Grate, 'CAST-ZE04'
Located in New York, NY
A fine example of an “hour glass” or “duck’s nest” cast iron half hob grate, possibly from the Coalbrookdale foundry, circa 1790.
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
19th Century English Nursery Guard - 45 1/4" Wide
Located in Greenwich, CT
19th century English brass trimmed wrought iron nursery guard with wide "fish-net" mesh. Used originally to protect pets and children from the fireplace. Now a decorative accessory.
Category
1870s Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Iron
English Adam Brass Festoon Mantel
Located in New York, NY
English Adam-style (19th Century) brass fireplace mantel with urns and applied brass festoon design with iron fender front.
Category
19th Century Adam Style Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Iron
Jasper and Siena Palladian Mantel
Located in New York, NY
The Romulus and Remus chimneypiece, circa 1745.
A George II marble chimneypiece in Italian statuary, convent Siena and Sicilian Jasper marbles. Attri...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Palladian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Arched Carrara Marble Mantel with Scroll Corbel Supports 'VIC-T24'
Located in New York, NY
A Carrara marble arch mantel having scroll corbel supports, simple fielded panels and key stone. Opening dimensions: 38.25" W x 36" H.
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
18th Century Neoclassical Pine Mantel
Located in New York, NY
A very fine late 18th century neoclassical pine mantel in excellent condition and exquisitely well carved featuring corner blocks carved with rosettes above tapering pilasters carved with pendant bell drops, and running frieze ribbon tied swags beneath a breakfront corniced mantel...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
St. Anne's Rouge Marble Mantel 'VIC-Y80'
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian mantel in St Anne's Rouge marble with fluted corner blocks and slate mouldings. Opening dimensions: 37.5" W x 37" H.
Category
19th Century Edwardian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
19th Century Georgian Mantel in Statuary Marble with Siena Inlay ‘NY-156’
Located in New York, NY
Georgian style mantelpiece in statuary and convent Siena marbles with pastoral centre tablet scene and cherubic corner blocks, circa 1820.
Opening dimensions: 44 1/2" W x 41 1/2" H.
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
19th Century Neoclassical Statuary Marble Mantelpiece, 'GEO-ZE97'
Located in New York, NY
An early 19th century English mantelpiece of restrained and elegant form, incorporating later elements and repairs, in Italian statuary marble with...
Category
Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
18th Century Georgian Mantel with Brocatella Inlays and Fine Carving 'GEO-ZE54'
Located in New York, NY
A late 18th century English marble mantel of good quality and in good condition incorporating unrelated 18th century elements of similar quality ...
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble, Marble
Victorian Arched Verdi Antico Marble Mantel, 'VIC-ZA76'
Located in New York, NY
A Verdi antico marble Victorian arched mantel, circa 1850. Opening dimensions: 39.5" W x 37.75" H.
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
18th Century Neoclassical Pine Mantel
Located in New York, NY
An exceptionally fine neoclassical pine mantel with a frieze carved in the finest low relief centered with an urn and flanked by foliate arabesques. The corner blocks carved with urn...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
19th Century "Aesthetic Movement" Crema Valancia Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
A striking late 19th century “Aesthetic Movement" mantel in Crema Valancia marble. The tapered footblock supporting twin octagonal columns. The frieze centered with a rectangular neoclassical plaque of pale green wedgewood...
Category
19th Century Aesthetic Movement Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
18th Century Irish Chimneypiece in Statuary Marble with Convent Siena Marble
Located in New York, NY
An elegant and well-proportioned late 18th century Irish chimneypiece in statuary marble GEO-ZE29, circa 1790. The chimneypiece has tapering pilaste...
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
St. Anne's Noire Marble Mantel, 'VIC-Q85'
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian mantel made in St. Anne's Noire marble with welsh slate fillets including its original curb fender. Opening dimensions: 36.5" W x 37.38" H.
Category
19th Century Edwardian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Turn of the Century Georgian Style Stained Oak Mantelpiece
Located in New York, NY
English Georgian style dark stained oak mantelpiece carved in a rectilinear post and lintel composition referencing both Classical architecture and traditional English iconography. S...
Category
19th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
Mid-18th Century Mantel with Convent Siena Panels
Located in New York, NY
Mid-18th century mantel of architectural form, with panels of convent siena to the pilasters and frieze, the latter flanking a centre inset of spanish brocatella and the former with ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
English Hand-Painted Fireplace Mantel in the Neoclassical Style
Located in London, GB
A rare and highly decorative chimney piece in the manner of George Brookshaw
The frame carved part gilded and polychrome decorated, with the inverted breakfront top shelf having a...
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Paint
Late Victorian Belgian Rance Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
A good late Victorian, circa 1890 mantel in Belgian Rance marble, the simple architectural form is fronted by a detached column with Doric capitals. (REG-L57). Opening dimensions: 46...
Category
19th Century Regency Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
19th Century Regency Mantel in Statuary and Siena
Located in New York, NY
Regency mantel in statuary marble with Siena inlay and astronomical centre tablet detail.
Opening dimension: 48 1/4" W x 42 1/4" H.
Category
19th Century Regency Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
19th Century Breche Marble Mantel with Polished Slate Mouldings 'VIC-S75'
Located in New York, NY
An impressive late 19th century mantel of architectural form in Breche marble embellished with polished slate mouldings, the jambs with engaged twin columns of Doric form terminating...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Slate
Regency Style Hob Grate, 'CAST-ZB67'
Located in New York, NY
An extremely rare Hob grate in the high Regency style.
Category
19th Century Regency Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Regency Style Statuary and Verdi Tinos Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
Statuary and Verdi Tinos Regency style marble mantel with ormolu mounts to frieze and corner blocks. Opening dimensions: 38.5" W x 37.75" H.
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Georgian Cast Iron Half Hob 'CAST-ZB06', circa 1760
Located in New York, NY
A mid-18th century Georgian cast iron 'hour glass' half hob, circa 1760.
Category
19th Century Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Cast Iron Regency Half Hob Grate, circa 1800, 'CAST-ZA26'
Located in New York, NY
A fine Regency cast iron half hob with acanthus leaf and hop motif, circa 1800.
Category
19th Century Regency Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
High Regency Style Hob Grate with Spherical Finials 'CAST-ZB82'
Located in New York, NY
A rare hob grate in the high Regency style with robust plain console pilasters and spherical finials.
Category
19th Century Regency Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Robert Adam, Late 18th Century George III Statuary Marble
By Robert Adam
Located in New York, NY
Late 18th century statuary marble mantel with detached fluted columns terminating in ionic capitals beneath corner blockings carved with anthemions. Bearing many hallmarks of the wor...
Category
18th Century and Earlier George III Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Edwardian Columned Rance Marble Mantel 'VIC-T40'
Located in New York, NY
A fine Edwardian columned mantel in Rance marble with Belgium black marble columns. Opening dimensions: 38" W x 38.5" H.
Category
19th Century Edwardian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Late 18th Century Statuary Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
Late 18th century mantel in statuary marble with Spanish Brocatella inlaid panels to the frieze and jamb, the latter terminating beneath simple moulded corbels and the former flankin...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Mid-18th Century Statuary Marble Mantel with Carved Foliate Pilasters (GEO-S77)
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent mid-18th century mantel in statuary marble with heavily carved foliate pilasters headed by masks beneath carved trussed which support corner blockings carved with ewers...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Georgian Antique British Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
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