Georgian Marble Fireplace in the Manner of James Adam

An English marble fireplace in pure white marble. The carved frieze with centre block and end blockings featuring flowers and foliage tied wit...

A fine quality English, white marble fireplace in the mid Georgian style. The frieze with plain centre tablet, the jam...

A fine quality English marble fireplace in the manner of Pietro Bossi. Statuary white marble with inlaid Spanish Brocatelle to ingrounds. The jambs with cascading foliage and Anthemi...

An elegant Irish white marble fireplace in the late Georgian style. The panelled swirled paterae to frieze interspersed with ringed bellfl...

19th Century Georgian Marble Fireplace Mantlepiece. An Extreemly Fine Hand Carved Fireplace Surround, Made From Italian Statuary White Marble. With Ha...

A fine and distinguished Georgian/Regency period Statuary Marble fireplace surround, with generous bed-mould below the canted-corner shelf, the central tablet showing a finely carved...

A robust early Georgian chimneypiece in the style of Inigo Jones. The elegant Old English marble moulded shelf is supported by a plain header in Bardiglio marble. The jambs are in the shape of tapering pilaster columns surmounted by Ionic capitals. The simplicity of this design immediately recalls the work of the 16th century architect Inigo Jones. His designs for chimneypieces, profusely reinterpreted by Neo Palladian...

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...