Antique Wood Fireplaces

Stock: 16600

An elegant neoclassical chimneypiece in pine. The inverted breakfronted shelf is carved with egg and dart and rests over a frieze which is profusely carved with scrolling acanthus and flowers. The jambs are decorated with strung flowers and fruit, very much in the manner of Grinling Gibbons.

English, c.1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 11⁄16" 177 cms	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms
Internal	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms

Stock: 16384

A fine Louis XVI chimneypiece in pine. The inverse breakfront shelf is mounted over a frieze which is beautifully carved with trailing olive foliage, and the central motif is a garland of roses over a bow. This is flanked by acanthus paterae typical of the period, over generous acanthus scrolled console jambs.
French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	60 13⁄16" 154.5 cms	48 3⁄16" 122.5 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Internal	37 1⁄4" 94.7 cms	35 13⁄16" 91 cms

Stock: 15859

A large and grand Renaissance Revival chimneypiece in Walnut. The inverted breakfront overmantel has a large cornice, which is supported by twin Corinthian freestanding columns. These flank the panelled frieze, which is centred by a beautiful panel carved with fantastical putti holding cornucopia, from which mythical birds pluck fruit. This large overmantel sits above the main chimneypiece, which is also a grand affair. The frieze is evenly placed with both triglyphs and biglyphs between finely carved foliate panels in low relief. Fluted and collared columns on large footblocks support the shelf.
English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 7⁄8" 187.7 cms	96 1⁄4" 244.5 cms	12 11⁄16" 32.2 cms
Internal	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 13154

A grand and large George III twin columned warm toned pine and gesso Georgian chimneypiece with its original Carrara Marble slips. The fluted and anthemion decorated frieze is centred by a plaque depicting four classical Greek figures around a weeping child. Each pair of slender twin columns on the jambs are separated by tumbling vines beneath end blocks with elaborately styled platters of fruit. English circa 1770.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	77" 195.5 cms	58" 147.3 cms	8 1⁄4" 21.2 cms
Internal	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms

Stock: 14874

A large carved oak Jacobean fireplace surround and overmantel. The high breakfront shelf rests above bead and reel and bracket supports. The carved overmantel is embellished with a pair of scrolled foliate panels beneath which are decoratively arched panels alternating with slender pairs of elaborately carved columns. The fireplace surround, with a double panel frieze with linked anthemion detail interspersed with diamond lozenges, is supported on a pair of tall carved columns with further lozenge detail on the footblocks.
English, c.1650.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 13⁄16" 164.5 cms	96 11⁄16" 245.5 cms	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms
Internal	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms

Stock: 15858

A monumental and grand Victorian chimneypiece in oak. The grand and imposing double height chimneypiece with collared twin columns and a large mirrored overmantel is Renaissance Revival in style and is carved from beautifully warm oak.
English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	108 1⁄8" 274.5 cms	113 3⁄8" 288 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Internal	50" 127 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 15547

A rare Scottish pine and composition chimneypiece by Richard Foster of Edinburgh.

The chimneypiece was designed with the coastal landscape of the East Coast of Scotland in mind and is profusely decorated in exquisite detail whilst maintaining the elegant restraint of a neoclassical chimneypiece.

The breakfront shelf rests above an undershelf studded with acorns and mushrooms which in turn is supported by two eagles on the endblocks. The eagles are modelled after a Roman Imperial Eagle in Horace Walpole’s collection, found in the gardens of Boccapadugli and displayed by Walpole at his Strawberry Hill Home. These details frame the remarkable frieze which is a celebration of the Scottish coast; profusely decorated with seaweed, shells, sea cucumber and crabs, all in high relief.

Most remarkable of all is the exquisite central tablet, which depicts Lady Emma Hamilton leaning on a ship’s anchor whilst gazing out to sea at the distant HMS Victory, the ship on which he would meet his heroic end. This scene is surrounded by a profusion of seashells and seaweed.

The underfrieze makes a departure from the coastal theme, and instead entwines thorny roses with the Scottish emblem of the thistle.

The jambs return to a more restrained neoclassicism, with engaged slender pilasters resting on plain footblocks. The original Kilkenny fossil marble slips are still present, which is a lovely feature.

Scottish, c.1805.

Provenance: Removed from an elegant Georgian house on the East Coast of Scotland, near Edinburgh.

Notes:

Chimneypieces of this manufacture were a speciality of Richard Foster of Edinburgh and his son and examples survive not only in Scotland but also in the United States and Canada, where he seemed to create a strong market for them in the late 18th century.
Richard Foster was born in Canonbie, the Scottish Borders, in 1755. At the age of fourteen, he was recorded as having a bank account in London, presumably as he was serving as an apprentice there, perhaps to the Adam Brothers as they too were in London at this time. In 1785 he returned to Edinburgh, working as a "joiner" and married to the daughter of a wealthy leather merchant. His chimneypieces were sold not only in Scotland, but in the USA, a bold move only a few years after American Independence was declared! This is perhaps why he avoided becoming a prominent figure in Scottish social and intellectual circles, as selling to Britain's former colonies would have been regarded as treachery in many cases.
The pine and composition chimneypiece he perfected made the rational principles and beauty of classicism affordable to the growing mercantile and professional class emerging in the 18th century. These clients wished to express their cultural understanding through objects that conveyed the principles they admired, the chimneypiece was one such highly prized object.
The Adam brothers (Robert and James) were well known for promoting their designs to the masses, and it is the pine and composition chimneypiece they made for the emerging middle class in Edinburgh that have become synonymous with the "Adam Style". However, Foster was a true master of the technique, and his designs are some of the most delicate and finely manufactured ever made.
In the 1770s, the technique of applying a cast composition onto pine really took off in Scotland, especially with the construction of many new houses, such as those in Edinburgh's New Town. The process of cast composition can be described as essentially a thermo plastic mix of chalk, glue size, and other additives heated up to a precise temperature then pressed into wood or brimstone moulds. These could then be applied to a simple pine surround and painted if desired. Foster was commissioned to make designs unique to clients, so there may only be a single example of a particular design, but these usually incorporate existing decorative motifs.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 13⁄16" 200.1 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	7 7⁄8" 20.1 cms
Internal	52" 132 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms

Stock: 15548

A rare pine and composition chimneypiece by Richard Foster of Edinburgh. The chimneypiece is a celebration of the Scottish coast, and painstaking care has been taken to render the sea life and flora with a great deal of accuracy. The composition decoration has also been carefully wood-grained to make it appear like carved pine; this finish is a great survival.
The inverted breakfront shelf sits above a band of composition moulded into acorns and mushrooms, and the frieze is decorated with swags of ribboned bellflowers in the neoclassical taste. Between these swags is the unusual detail of a fan of seaweed at their centre, a request of the patron no doubt.
The central tablet has a floral ribboned swag studded with roses and other small blooms and the centre is filled with a spray of flowers and ferns within a woven basket. The endblocks feature a bound posy of roses and the jambs are decorated with trailing oak leaves and acorns. A very fine thing.

Scottish, c.1800.

Notes:
Richard Foster was born in Canonbie, the Scottish Borders, in 1755. At the age of fourteen, he was recorded as having a bank account in London, presumably as he was serving as an apprentice there, perhaps to the Adam Brothers as they too were in London at this time. In 1785 he returned to Edinburgh, working as a "joiner" and married to the daughter of a wealthy leather merchant. His chimneypieces were sold not only in Scotland, but in the USA, a bold move only a few years after American Independence was declared! This is perhaps why he avoided becoming a prominent figure in Scottish social and intellectual circles, as selling to Britain's former colonies would have been regarded as treachery in many cases. The pine and composition chimneypiece he perfected made the rational principles and beauty of classicism affordable to the growing mercantile and professional class emerging in the 18th century. These clients wished to express their cultural understanding through objects that conveyed the principles they admired, the chimneypiece was one such highly prized object. The Adam brothers (Robert and James) were well known for promoting their designs to the masses, and it is the pine and composition chimneypiece they made for the emerging middle class in Edinburgh that have become synonymous with the "Adam Style". However, Foster was a true master of the technique, and his designs are some of the most delicate and finely manufactured ever made.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 1⁄2" 169 cms	58 1⁄2" 148.6 cms	7 1⁄4" 18.6 cms
Internal	48 1⁄8" 122.3 cms	45 11⁄16" 116 cms

Stock: 15537

A very elegant Regency pine and gesso chimneypiece decorated in the Adam style. The inverted breakfront shelf is decorated with a beaded cornice and sits above an elegant frieze decorated with opposing gryphons holding ribbons of bellflowers in their beaks, centred by urns on stands. The tablet is more naturalistic, with Venus and attendants depicted in a pastoral landscape. The slender endblocks are decorated with classical urns on stands, and rest above the gently fluted pilaster jambs.

English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 3⁄16" 186 cms	61 1⁄8" 155.1 cms	7" 17.7 cms
Internal	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	48" 122 cms

Stock: 11067

A fine 19th century carved pine chimneypiece in the Georgian manner, with a frieze decorated with finely carved floral garlands and foliate flourishes. Intended to be fitted with marble slips, which we can provide.

English, c. 1880.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 1⁄2" 156.3 cms	52 5⁄8" 133.5 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
Internal	5 3⁄8" 13.6 cms	40 11⁄16" 103.4 cms

Stock: 13122

An imposingly large Jacobean Revival cedar wood antique fireplace surround with an exquisitely inlaid over mantel. This chimneypiece has a projecting pediment on the upper register which rests above a pair of strapwork panels beneath which are two high arched panels decorated with stylised ornate inlaid vases of flowers picked out in satinwood, mahogany, sycamore and ebony. The panels are set between three pairs of free standing, reeded columns with finely carved capitals terminating in tall strapwork feet. Beneath the over mantel is a fireplace surround, with a moulded shelf above a strapwok carved barrel undershelf, supported by a pair of tapering reeded jambs resting on tall footblocks.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height (Overall)	Depth
External	90 5⁄8" 230 cms	129 7⁄8" 330 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	53 11⁄16" 136.5 cms	60" 152.5 cms

Stock: 15231

An Edwardian, Arts and Crafts oak fire surround. The crenelated cornice, supported by a pair of turned columns, rests above a recessed frieze and mantle shelf. The frieze is set with five painted panels depicting Medieval York including the ‘bar’ or city walls, streets and gateways; the ruins of St Mary's Abbey and York Minster itself. A Tudor style arch frames the fireplace opening flanked by a pair of simple tapering columns on the jambs. English, circa 1910.

Photos before cleaning and polishing.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	75 5⁄8" 192 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.6 cms
Internal	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms

Stock: 14786

A rather magnificent and beautifully carved twin columned Palladian style Victorian walnut antique fireplace mantel. The shelf, under carved with scrolling foliate detail, rests above a stop fluted frieze centred by a plaque with a stylised urn and trailing acanthus leaves and fronds. Each of the endblocks, with large heraldic cartouche, sit above twin pairs of finely carved stop fluted tapering columns supported on substantial footblocks. The fireplace opening with a border of shell and tongue is centred by a scrolled panel of angels, amid further foliage, immediately beneath the plaque. English, circa 1880.

Shown here with fire basket SNo 12271 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	89 3⁄16" 226.5 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	43 1⁄2" 110.5 cms

Stock: 13248

THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUTCH PAINTING: An Aesthetic Movement Register Grate and Walnut Fire Surround. The fire surround has a breakfront shelf above a frieze with alternating rosette panelled designs, curiously the left set differs from those on the right, the frieze is centred by the initials EC and the date 1875, and the opening is set with Ashburton marble slips. The integral Register Grate has ten hand painted tiles, four of which depict 17th century Dutch Painters, who were of the Dutch Realist School of Genre Painting in Utrecht, Delft & Leiden or Amsterdam.

The Integral Register Grate has ten hand painted tiles, four of which depict 17th century Dutch Painters, all of whom were of the Dutch Realist School of Genre Painting in Utrecht, Delft and Leiden or Amsterdam.

The painters are from the bottom left:
WOUTER CRABET(H) (1594 – 1644) The School of Delft and the most important Dutch Golden Age artist in the town of Gouda.
LEONARD BRAMER (1596 – 1667) The School of Delft an established painter of note who had studied in Italy & who later became a pupil of Rembrandt.
REMBRANDT Harmensz van Rijn (1606 – 1669) whose artistic ability could not be contained within the confines of Dutch Realism. A grand manner artist in his depictions of the drama of the Bible and an acute portraitist, including many famous portraits of himself, capturing the complete range of human emotions.
GERARD DOU (1613 – 1675) a pupil of Rembrandt & founder of the Painters Guild of Leiden another Dutch Golden Age painter he specialised in genre scenes & was noted for his trompe l’oeil and candlelit night-scenes.
English Dated 1875.

NOTE- The walnut surround was probably manufactured by Gillows of Lancaster as they manufactured the original furnishings for the property in Windemere from which this fireplace was removed.

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	Width	Height
External	79 1⁄2" 202 cms	64 5⁄8" 164 cms

Stock: 8445

A George II antique pine chimneypiece with leaf carved moulding & vines, with bunches of grapes on the frieze.
English, Circa 1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 13⁄16" 157 cms	61 3⁄8" 156 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms
Internal	44 7⁄8" 114 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms

Stock: 11303

An exquisitely carved pine and limewood mid Georgian fire surround.The pediment shelf, undercarved with lambs tongue, leaf & dart and bead enrichment, rests above a plain pine frieze centred by a panel of delicately carved limewood rosebud sprigs. The endblocks with equally finely carved limewood urns sit above panelled jambs with Corinthian capitals and ascending foliate motifs. By repute removed from Holy Rood House in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
English, late 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 13⁄16" 174.8 cms	56 7⁄8" 144.4 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
Internal	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 cms

Stock: 10093

A substantial and profusely carved pine Fireplace Surround in the Neo Classical manner. The central plaque floral swar is finely carved in high relief, the endblocks with stylised foliate paterae and with acanthus corbels and descending festoons on the jambs.
English 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	75 3⁄16" 191 cms	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms

Stock: 13011

An enormous and grand antique Victorian walnut chimneypiece in the Neoclassical style. The frieze elaborately carved with three pairs of sea serpents alternating with flambeau urns and scallop shells. The shells are repeated on the panelled surround of the opening. Larger scallop shells are set on the endblocks and the jambs have entwined decoration set within panels framed by beading and egg & dart edging. There is a brass plaque fixed to the undershelf with the engraved signature of Carlo Scarselli and the date 1878.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	122 13⁄16" 312 cms	78" 198 cms	22" 56 cms
Internal	55 7⁄8" 142 cms	50 13⁄16" 129 cms

Stock: 9119

A tall Jacobean Revival antique oak chimneypiece with a panelled, pyramid overmantel above a recessed shelf resting on the large fire surround and supported by a pair of substantial free standing columns fronting the jambs. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71" 180.3 cms	112 5⁄8" 286 cms	15" 38.1 cms
Internal	48 3⁄16" 122.5 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms

Stock: 9151

A tall mahogany chimneypiece in the Renaissance Revival manner. The richly carved deep frieze, featuring fruit filled cornucopia, is centred by a pair of mythical birds and a gadrooned urn with stylised mythical serpents either side. Tall reeded tapering columns topped by Corinthian capitals front the jambs. English, circa 1890.

Shown here with andirons SNo 12784 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	67 1⁄4" 171 cms	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms

Stock: 14246

A very finely carved Neoclassical style antique pine chimneypiece. The shelf, with floral under carving, egg and dart and dentl borders, rests above a delicate stop fluted frieze centred by a large central plaque depicting an allegorical scene of a seated goddess, possibly Eileithyia the Greek Goddess of Childbirth, surrounded by children gathering fruits. The foliate detailed endblocks rest on Ionic capitals above tapering panels with vine entwined rods on the jambs. The opening with an embellished floral edging.
English, early to mid 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 14748 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄8" 180.5 cms	56 3⁄8" 143.3 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms
Internal	43 3⁄16" 109.8 cms	48 11⁄16" 123.7 cms

Stock: 14789

A tall and substantial Victorian mahogany fireplace surround and overmantel in the Baroque style. The plain frieze beneath a dentilled under-shelf, centred by a cabochon and mythical beast plaque, is flanked by carved endblocks above reeded columns raised on tall footblocks. The overmantel with a moulded shelf above a dentil band and with a strapwork and foliate decorated panel flanked by tapering reeded pilasters beneath alternating lion masks and oval medallion bands. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65 11⁄16" 167 cms	82 7⁄8" 210.5 cms	8 5⁄8" 21.8 cms
Internal	43" 109.3 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 14774

A tall and unique Gothic Revival oak fireplace mantel together with the original Kilkenny Black Marble fender. The high stepped shelf has a central podium flanked by two demi lune podiums under carved with foliate detail, beneath which is a castellated border centred by a keystone with a plain shield. The deeply carved foliate spandrels frame the arched opening with its English Marble ingrounds. The tall oak jambs, with small ebonised columns, are supported on sturdy double footblocks.

English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 7⁄8" 175 cms	65 7⁄8" 167.5 cms	14 1⁄4" 36.3 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms

Stock: 10497

A beautifully carved and pleasantly patinated early pine and gesso antique fireplace surround the shelf with a delicately carved border above repeating foliate bands, the frieze centred by gambolling putti within a medallion and with draped bellflowers and tied reeded bands either side within a beaded panel, flanked by carved figural endblocks above tied tapering reeded jambs.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	53 11⁄16" 136.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms
Internal	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	44 1⁄4" 112.4 cms

Stock: 14564

A fine, large and stately French Renaissance style antique walnut fireplace with a tall pedimented overmantel set with winged dragons holding a caduceus cartouche above the large egg and dart framed mirror. The three panelled frieze of the fireplace is supported by a pair of ornate free standing columns fronting the jambs. French, late 19th century.

Shown here with andirons SNo 12149 not included in the price.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	74 3⁄16" 188.5 cms	143 7⁄8" 365.5 cms	25" 63.5 cms
Internal	51 5⁄8" 131 cms	56 1⁄8" 142.5 cms

Stock: 14516

A tall and imposing antique walnut trumeau chimneypiece together with it's original cast iron back plate and accompanying side panels. The large carved salamander on the trumeau is set beneath a high pediment. The fireplace surround, with a rectangular opening and a wide gadrooned frieze centred by acanthus carving, is supported by two large free standing balustered columns resting on plinths above large footblocks. The original central cast iron back panel is centred by another salamander amidst the flames and the twin side panels are embellished with a display of bees.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65" 165 cms	114 3⁄16" 290 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.5 cms
Internal	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms

Stock: 13632

A beautifully carved, highly ornate late 18th century pine and applied gesso twin columned antique chimneypiece. The under shelf, embellished with delicate acanthus leaf detail also seen throughout the fireplace, is set above a frieze centred with a gesso panel of classical figures in a rural setting. The endblocks, with further gesso figures representing the harvest, rest above the two sets of slender twin columns fronting the jambs. Provenance: Purportedly from Thame Park an early Georgian House in Oxfordshire.
English circa 1780.

Please note: There is some cracking to the gesso commensurate with age.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	76 13⁄16" 195 cms	58 1⁄8" 147.5 cms	7" 17.8 cms
Internal	49 3⁄8" 125.5 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms

Stock: 12089

A pleasingly simple early 20th century mahogany fireplace mantel with fine inlaid marquetry Art Nouveau detail on the frieze.
Edwardian, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 13⁄16" 164.5 cms	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms	39 1⁄8" 99.4 cms

Stock: 14456

An Arts & Crafts oak fireplace surround in the manner of the Cheshire designer George Faulkner Armitage (1849-1937), with a deep moulded shelf above a pair of cupboards with stained and leaded glass doors set either side of the open lower shelf above panelled jambs flanked by protruding, leaf-carved uprights.
English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 1⁄4" 168.5 cms	63 13⁄16" 162 cms	12" 30.5 cms
internal	39 1⁄2" 100.3 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 7667

A fine antique pine fireplace surround in the Georgian manner, with a richly carved floral frieze centred by a large shell cartouche and with lambs tongue, egg & dart undershelf carving and acanthus leaf detail around the opening. We can provide marble slips if desired which would be added to the cost. English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 5⁄8" 164 cms	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms
Internal	46 11⁄16" 118.5 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 14454

A tall twin columned antique walnut Trumeau fireplace surround with Gothic Revival detail throughout. The simple overmantel with a high stepped pediment rests above the double frieze, the upper of carved arches flanked by linefold endblocks, and the lower with a row of demi-lune quatrefoils. The plain jambs are fronted by twin pairs of slim columns, with carved capitals, resting on sturdy footblocks. French, mid 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 11882 now sold.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 3⁄8" 163.5 cms	111 13⁄16" 284 cms	20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms
Internal	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms

Stock: 8395

A large elegant George III style antique fireplace surround carved in pine & gesso in the style of Adam. The central plaque decorated with Arabesque floral scrolls and urns, set on a stop fluted frieze flanked by oval floral paterae on the endblocks above scrolled jambs with applied acanthus and descending bellflower decoration and with abundant husk detail edging throughout. English, mid to late 19th century.

Shown here with fire grate SNo 8260 now sold.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	77 1⁄2" 196.8 cms	61 1⁄2" 156.2 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
Internal	56 11⁄16" 144.1 cms	48 11⁄16" 123.8 cms

Stock: 14139

A carved oak Jacobean style chimneypiece and overmantel of modest proportions. The deeply carved strap work frieze on the fireplace is decorated with Tudor roses and roundels containing portraits of bearded noblemen and is flanked by floral paterae end blocks supported on caryatid jambs. The caryatids, set within deep egg and dart bordered panels, stand on carved foot blocks. The overmantel, beneath a simple but boldly moulded cornice, is divided into three panels inset with light coloured fruit wood and black ebony geometric designs. Each panel alternates with male and female terms holding cherub, fruit and foliate panels
English, rebuilt in the mid 19th century with 17th & 18th century elements.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄8" 180.5 cms	79 1⁄2" 202 cms	10" 25.5 cms
Internal	44 11⁄16" 113.5 cms	40 11⁄16" 103.5 cms

Stock: 13843

A tall and elegant walnut antique Art Nouveau fireplace in the manner of Charles Harrison Townsend (1851 - 1928), architect and designer of the 1901 Horniman Museum and the 1895 Bishopsgate Institute, both in London. Carved in relief in a design typical of the Art Nouveau period with a pair of tall stylised trees with slender trunks and sinuous roots flanking the high set columned podium.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	75 3⁄16" 191 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Internal	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 13874

THE ITALIAN WARS
A monumental and imposing richly carved French walnut trumeau chimneypiece. The generously moulded cornice lies above a dramatically carved arched central panel dominating the trumeau frieze and depicting a scene of battle probably relating to the eighth Italian War (1551-1559) when Henry II of France declared war against Charles V ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. The panel is flanked on either side by two large carved horned and winged mythical beasts and the whole rests on the wide and sturdy fireplace surround beneath.

The deep shelf of the fireplace surround, with its carved alternating bossed frieze, sits above a pair of robust fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and stepped footblocks and the deep set fireplace opening is topped by a finely carved and decorative border detail.
French, mid 19th century.

Notes: The 1551-1559 Italian War was also known as the Habsburg – Valois War. There were a series of conflicts from 1494 to 1559 that involved, at various times, most of the city-states of Italy, the Papal States, most of the major states of Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Originally arising from dynastic disputes over the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples, the wars rapidly became a general struggle for power and territory among their various participants, and were marked with an increasing number of alliances, counter-alliances and betrayals.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	79 11⁄16" 202.5 cms	107 1⁄8" 272 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms
Internal	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	35" 89 cms