A very good George II carved pine mantel with Portoro marble interior

Carved from three pieces of Dove grey marble. The jambs and frieze having raised and fielded panels. The keystone carved with an oyster shell and the corners with stylized rosettes. This fireplace reflects the work of Irish stone...

Antique Victorian Statuary Carrara Beautifully Carved Marble Mantel, circa 1880 A beautifully carved and proportioned, antique Victorian Statuary Carrara marble mantelpiece. The D-...

The serpentine shaped frieze has incredibly fine carvings of fabulous Renaissance ornament. The centre cartouche is upheld by male figures terminating in scrolling acanthus leaf’s, these flanked by dragons amongst foliage and female figures on each of the curved corners. The frieze upheld by highly carved baluster shaped pedestals on Rosso Verona jambs. Made from Pietra d’Istria marble and Rosso Verona marble. Photographed in un-restored original condition, can be cleaned if preferred, circa 1830 Provenance: Talygarn house in Wales, rebuilt during the 19th century by George Thomas Clarke, industrialist, ironmaster for Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Antique Italian Carrara marble mantel in the Venetian Renaissance style. The jambs with rope twist Corinthian columns supporting large acanthus br...

A grand and imposing Victorian fireplace in dramatic portoro marble, with rare and beautiful Cornish serpentine columns. The fireplace's inverted breakfront shelf looms over an under...

A chimneypiece of good, neoclassical proportion with canted foot blocks and fluted jambs. On the central tablet are two onions, bound by a ribbon, their organic forms well carved. Fo...

A finely drawn, late eighteenth century, pine and gesso chimneypiece featuring a breakfront shelf and a frieze depicting a motif of crossed claret jugs and flaming torches. On the co...

Predominantly uncarved, this stripped pine and gesso chimneypiece is of neoclassical form and austere complexion. A waterleaf moulding in gesso frames the aperture and the central ta...