An Impressive 19th Century Louis XVI Style Fireplace in Veined Statuary Marble

A magnificent and rare English Regency Neoclassical Egyptian style statuary marble fireplace carved to the highest quality, of the type popularised by Thomas Hope 17691831, in his highly influential Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807) with term jambs of Antinous Osiris...

A 19th century statuary and Antico Verde marble fireplace in an earlier neoclassical style. With a tiered and moulded shelf above the double Gre...

A 19th century Louis XVI style chimney piece of blue turquin and white statuary marbles. The white frieze with a central vase of flowers flanked by suspen...

An Impressive 18th Century Palladian Style Fireplace in Statuary and Contrasting Jasper Marbles with Sienna Marble Column Jambs From the London, Westminster workshops of Sir Henry Cheere (1703–1781) made for the 2nd Earl of Ossory for his seat at Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, probably during improvements made by Sir William Chambers to the principle rooms and for building the two wings, between 1768–1772. The moulded breakfront shelf stepping forward over the jambs is decorated with lamb’s tongue and egg and dart. The frieze centred with a large rectangular tablet which drops into the upper member of the architrave, of choice specimen marble jasper of unusual and rare greenish hues, flanked by yellow coloured Jasper marble panels, the rectangular Jasper end blockings decorated with open sunflower heads with curled petals in statuary, upheld by the three-quarter round, tapering Sienna marble columns with Roman Ionic order statuary capitals and bases fronting the statuary pilasters. The whole rests on Statuary marble blocks. A closely related coloured drawing of a columned fireplace, with no sculptural decoration, from the Cheere's workshop can be seen in the Victoria Museum, D715(2)-1887 (one of 28 coloured designs of fireplaces). In 1769 the young Earl of Upper Ossory bought in the architect Sir William Chambers to extend and modernise the house adding East (kitchen service...

A fine French 19th-20th century Louis XVI style veined grey and white marble fireplace mantel surround, surmounted with a pair of cylindrical marble columns and an edged frieze, Pari...

A good quality statuary marble antique fireplace in the Louis XVI manner. The panelled jambs surmounted by carved rosette paterae, the frieze with swags, drapery and foliage to centr...

A good quality French Louis XVI style fireplace in veined Statuary marble. The jambs with half rounded column, surmounted by carved acanthus leaf capitals. The frieze with beaded pan...

A fine quality Statuary marble fireplace in the Louis XVI style. The tapering, stop-fluted jambs surmounted by panel carved with grapes and leaf work with swirling rosette paterae ab...