White Statuary Marble Fireplace with Jasper Inlay in the Late Georgian Manner

A white marble fireplace in the late Georgian style. The frieze with carved centre blocking featuring quiver, torch and tied ribbon, with carved lyres to end blocks. Panelled frieze ...

A fine Irish veined statuary marble fireplace. The richly coloured inlaid centre tablet and side blockings in the manner of Pietro Bossi, with urns, bellflowers and foliage. Fluting ...

An 18th century English marble statuary fireplace with inlaid sienna marble Greek key inlay to side panels, carved centre tablet with putti and drapery, and jambs comprising tapered ...

A good quality English Statuary marble fireplace with Italian Siena marble inlay. The fluted jambs surmounted by carved end blockings with classical finials. The frieze with matching...

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...

The frieze centred with a carved centre tablet with a sphinx mounted urn and ribbon tied swags flanked by inlaid roundels and swags, the end blocks carved with drapery hung urns with...

An early to mid 19th c fireplace in Statuary white and jasper marbles. The fluted pilaster jambs stood on foot blockings, with Jasper marble ingrounds, surmounted by carve corner blo...

A late Georgian Statuary and Convent Sienna marble fireplace, circa 1800, the shelf with a simple mould above frieze with plaque centred by a female mask, the corner blocks of putti ...