Statuary & Vert d'Estours Green Marble Fireplace

An English Georgian Statuary marble fireplace with Italian Siena inlay. The jambs with carved bell drops and foliage, with Siena inlay to ingrounds. The reeded frieze with Siena cent...

A period English Regency fireplace in statuary marble. The jambs with half rounded reeds surmounted by roundel end blockings. Carved central paterae to frieze, English, circa 1820. O...

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...

A characterful George III column chimneypiece in statuary, sienna and jasper marbles, with a large and well-carved centre tablet of Virtue and Vice, circa 1765. The breakfront tiere...