18th Century Georgian Statuary Marble and Onyx Fireplace Surround

Large Victorian statuary white marble fireplace surround with and arched aperture and heavily carved corbels supporting the serpentine ...

A substantial early Victorian fire surround in statuary marble. Well carved acanthus corbels sit above plain jambs and flank a stepped frieze ...

Large and imposing antique Georgian fire surround in statuary marble with full ionic pillars terminating in square plain capitals which in turn support a ...

Large 18th century Georgian statuary marble chimneypiece. The deeply moulded and breakfront shelf sits above the frieze centred by a plaque finely carved with flutes and arrows, supp...

A good quality late 18th century George III statuary and inlaid Connemara marble fireplace. The centre panel with cupid and garland and ribbons. The s...

A wonderfully elegant, late 19th Century Georgian manner statuary & sienna marble fireplace surround. An ogee corniced top shelf with a secondary under score shelf sits directly ab...

This white hand-carved marble chimney-piece with Scagliola inlay and break fronted shelf attributed to Pietro Bossi who is known to have worked in Dublin from 1785-1798. Not much is known about Pietro Bossi, although much inlay work of the late 18th century is commonly known as`Bossi-work'. An Italian craftsman, Bossi worked in Dublin from 1785-1798 and used colored marble inlay and also a colored paste inlay, known as Scagliola, on a white marble ground. His designs are in the neoclassical style, a style disseminated by Robert Adam in 1770s. Bossi`s process was a closely guarded secret and was apparently carried out behind closed doors. Although, there were other craftsmen producing this type of work, the present chimney-piece can be attributed to Bossi because it shares some distinctive decoration with other pieces strongly believed to be by him. The overall style is typical of Bossi. This unique marble fireplace mantel-piece is believed to originate from a wing of Huntroyde Hall...

A 19th century Georgian style statuary marble fireplace surround of good proportions and color, a profiled top shelf rests above a central tablet displaying a large urn, flanked by f...