FRENCH, LOUIS XVI, EMPIRE ANTIQUE FIREPLACES

Stock: 10056

A small Louis XVI style cheminee in veined white Carrara marble with boldly defined carved detail on the frieze and end blockings of geometric motifs and on the high relief carved scrolled jambs with broad Acanthus leaf consoles descending to Lion Paw feet. French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	33 3⁄16" 84.3 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.6 cms

Stock: 9910

A very small Louis XVI cheminee in light green Campan marble with a fluted bow fronted frieze, flanked by rectangular carved floral paterae over fluted jambs. French mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms

Stock: 9022

A superbly carved Louis XVI fireplace in Carrara marble, the very sharp detail of four types of flowers on the frieze with pearl bead border, high relief floral central cartouche, and endblock paterae over rope-twist around the opening, the pretty scrolled jambs descending into very delicate florally decorated bottom scrolls.
French early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58 1⁄4" 148 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	17 1⁄8" 43.5 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	32 1⁄8" 81.5 cms

Stock: 8861

A large Louis XVI cheminee in Carrara Grigio Curva marble. The moulded
breakfronted shelf over the frieze which is decorated with gilt bronze
floral decoration and rectangular floral paterae either side over console jambs richly decorated with acanthus leaf over descending laurel leaf
and berry decoration.
French mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	67 1⁄8" 170.5 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	15" 38.2 cms
Internal	47 13⁄16" 121.5 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms

Stock: 8839

A very intricately carved Louis XVI chimneypiece in statuary marble with guilloche florally carved frieze decoration, centred by a shield cartouche, over acanthus scrolled brackets , with descending floral and pearl decoration on the jambs. Panelled side returns under a breakfronted shelf.
French 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 1⁄8" 168 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms
Internal	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 7844

PIERRE GOUTHIERE BRONZE SATYRS : A remarkable Louis XVI antique mantle in white Statuary marble with bronze & gilt-bronze adornment. The bronze female satyrs attributed to Pierre Gouthiere (Maitre, 1758) after the model by Jean-Joseph Foucou, each satyress is lion-skin draped, gilded vine leaf crowned, with ivy leaves around the waist & is carrying a cymbal and a tambourine. The frieze with gilt bronze scrolled floral decoration centered by a mask of Bacchus.

Provenance: Removed from 1 Connaught Place, London, headquarter’s of the Schweppes Company previously known as Marble Arch House, built in 1807 as the town house of Princess Caroline of Brunswick, tempestuous wife of the Prince Regent, later George IV. Similar examples in the Royal Closet at Buckingham Palace, The Throne Room at Carlton House and another at present in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection New York and the Hotel Masseran in Paris...See images below..
French, circa 1800.

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	width	height	depth
external	68 3⁄16" 173.3 cms	46" 116.8 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms
internal	43 7⁄8" 111.5 cms	34 1⁄2" 87.6 cms