Regency Style Marble Fireplace with Sienna Brocatelle Inlay

A Regency style white marble fireplace. The jambs and frieze with black Greek key inlay, the frieze with carved paterae to end blocks and finely cast composite centre featuring danci...

A Regency style fireplace in white marble. The tapering panelled jambs surmounted by classical urns to side blockings, the panelled frieze surmounted by reeded shelf above. A copy of...

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...

Beautiful compact antique mantelpiece made of Carrara marble from the 19th century! This graceful mantle is in Pompadour style, characterized by the round ornament in the center of t...