1810s Fireplaces and Mantels

An elegant Regency fireplace of fine quality, carved from grey veined English white marble. The plain shelf sits above a reeded frieze, which is flanked by endblocks carved with ribb...

A handsome Belgian black marble chimneypiece in the Louis XV manner, 19th century, with pleasingly flowing form. Its moulded arc-en-arbolette shelf sits atop a sinuous frieze which ...

Rare early 19th century Regency statuary marble and scagliola fire surround. The straight edged shelf is detailed with black and greens scagliola, below which the carved frieze is al...

A Regency Ancaster stone chimneypiece, early 19th century, the rectangular shelf above frieze centred by plain tablet, the channel moulded jambs sur...

A charming early 19th century Antique Pine & Gesso Georgian timber fireplace surround salvaged from Edinburgh's historical New Town. A breakfront and moulded shelf sits above a a fri...

A fine and attractive antique French Empire, early 19th century fireplace mantel surround in richly variegated Rosso De Valencia marble, a square top sits above an unadorned frieze flanked by Bronze shell cartouche paterae on the end blocks above channelled panel...

Of simple design with plain friezes and pilaster jambs decorated at the top with fan shaped, anthemion palmettes upheld by horizontal “S” scrolls. The whole resting on rectangular fo...

The crisply carved and bold, neoclassical forms of this fireplace are the epitome of fashionable Regency taste. It features a plain shelf above a frieze filled with scrolling vines and bunches of grapes, suggesting it was originally intended for a dining room. In the centre sits a carved ‘Gorgoneion’: a popular Ancient Greek motif associated with the Olympian gods Athena and Zeus. Rosette paterae flank the frieze, which is supported by a striking pair of caryatids, the lower portions of which are carved in relief with a staff of fennel covered with ivy and topped by a pine cone. This symbol, known as a ‘thyrsus’, was associated Dionysus, with the Greek god of wine, and is a further allusion to dining and revelry. Like ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and archaeological artifacts, fine chimney pieces were a popular souvenir of the Grand Tour. The skilled workshops of Rome did a lively trade with British patrons during the second half of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, often working to designs provided by their clients. The unequivocal Neoclassicism of this fireplace represents the forefront of Regency design, as promoted by such luminaries as the collector and connoisseur Thomas Hope (1769-1831). Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration was published in 1807 and was the most important British furniture design book of the early nineteenth century. Inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian sources and the influence of the French Directoire and Empire styles, Hope endeavoured to rid British design of ‘tameness’ and monotonous decoration which ‘completely tired the eye and mind’, and replace it with ‘a delightful significance of shape and embellishment’. Originally from Somerville House in County Meath...

The crisply-carved and bold, neoclassical forms of this fireplace are the epitome of fashionable Regency taste. It features a plain shelf above a frieze filled with scrolling vines and bunches of grapes, suggesting it was originally intended for a dining room. In the centre sits a carved ‘Gorgonian,’ a popular Ancient Greek motif associated with the Olympian gods Athena and Zeus. Rosette paterae flank the frieze, which is supported by a striking pair of caryatids, the lower portions of which are carved in relief with a staff of fennel covered with ivy and topped by a pine cone. This symbol, known as a ‘thyrsus,’ was associated Dionysus, with the Greek god of wine, and is a further allusion to dining and revelry. Like ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and archaeological artifacts, Fine chimney pieces were a popular souvenir of the Grand Tour. The skilled workshops of Rome did a lively trade with British patrons during the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries, often working to designs provided by their clients. The unequivocal Neoclassicism of this fireplace represents the forefront of Regency design, as promoted by such luminaries as the collector and connoisseur Thomas Hope (1769-1831). Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration was published in 1807 and was the most important British furniture design book of the early nineteenth century. Inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian sources and the influence of the French Directoire and Empire styles, Hope endeavoured to rid British design of ‘tameness’ and monotonous decoration which ‘completely tired the eye and mind,’ and replace it with ‘a delightful significance of shape and embellishment.’ Originally from Somerville House in County Meath...

A good English, Regency period chimneypiece in white statuary marble, with plain panelled frieze and pilaster shaped, rounded reeded jambs. The finely carved paterae end blocks inspi...

Chimneypiece with reeded shelf with rounded corners reeded frieze and jambs. The blockings decorated with rounded patera, circa 1815.