GOTHIC, RENAISSANCE & JACOBEAN ANTIQUE FIREPLACES
A large selection of Renaissance, Gothic and Jacobean antique fireplaces, chimneypieces and mantels in wood, stone and marble.
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Stock: 14369
A large antique Jacobean style carved oak and ebony fireplace surround and overmantel. The strapwork barrel frieze is divided by well carved lion masks, mirrored on the endblocks, above the simple fluted pilaster jambs with dental capitals, supported on tall moulded footblocks. The original Yorkstone ingrounds have a graceful Tudor arch and deep mouldings to the opening. The upper fluted frieze on the overmantel is supported on a pair of carved ebony and oak caryatids, decorated with further lion masks, strapwork and carved fruit, flanking geometric panels with ebonized detailing on the dividing pilasters. Labelled on the back, Marsh Jones and Cribb, a renowned Arts & Crafts furniture manufacturers founded around 1850, originally as the firm “Marsh & Jones
English, late 19th century.
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height |
depth |
| external |
88 3⁄8"
224.5 cms |
89"
226 cms |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
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47 5⁄8"
121 cms |
41 11⁄16"
106 cms |
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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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Height |
Depth |
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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 |
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Stock: 14186
A Gothic Revival limestone antique fireplace surround with a small central keystone linking the frieze to the gentle arched opening. The shelf is supported on six small brackets to the sides. A pair with SNo 14185 not yet on the website.
English, mid 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
61 3⁄8"
156 cms |
53 11⁄16"
136.5 cms |
10 3⁄8"
26.5 cms |
| Internal |
35"
89 cms |
41 1⁄2"
105.5 cms |
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Stock: 14307
A smart High Renaissance style polished Belgian Black Marble antique fireplace surround with three foliate carved panels on the frieze flanked by a pair of lozenge endblocks set above tapering free standing fluted columns resting on double footblocks. Flemish 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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63 13⁄16"
162 cms |
59 1⁄8"
150 cms |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
| Internal |
35 13⁄16"
91 cms |
44 7⁄8"
114 cms |
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Stock: 13956
A fine Edwardian carved oak antique fireplace surround and overmantel in the Jacobean manner. The breakfront corniced top rests on four free standing oak columns behind which are three large strapwork panels. The frieze is set with three plainer panels divided by four acanthus detailed brackets. The whole is supported on a pair of reeded columns, embellished with ornate capitals and strapwork detail, standing on large footblocks.
English early 20th century.
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height |
depth |
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69 11⁄16"
177 cms |
89 3⁄8"
227 cms |
12 3⁄8"
31.5 cms |
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41 7⁄8"
106.5 cms |
42 1⁄8"
107 cms |
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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.
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Height |
Depth |
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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 |
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Stock: 10272
A small and elegant Gothic Revival antique chimneypiece in attractive brown coral fossil marble, with a simple moulded shelf above a slow arched opening and with recessed Gothic panels on the jambs resting on plain footblocks.
English mid 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
57 3⁄8"
145.8 cms |
45 1⁄8"
114.5 cms |
7 7⁄8"
20 cms |
| Internal |
36"
91.5 cms |
39 3⁄8"
100 cms |
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Stock: 10284
A large 19th century antique oak chimneypiece mantel in the Jacobean style. The deeply moulded shelf is set above a double frieze, carved with birds, cherubs riding seahorses, and entwined acanthus leaves, flanked by roaring lion mask end blocks, supported by a pair of caryatids draped in robes in the form of pilasters with ionic capitals, embellished with lion masks and strap work. The fireplace opening is boarded by richly carved mouldings of egg and dart and acanthus.
English mid 19th century, incorporating 17th and 18th century elements.
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height |
depth |
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90 3⁄16"
229 cms |
75 3⁄16"
191 cms |
11 5⁄8"
29.5 cms |
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48 3⁄16"
122.5 cms |
48 3⁄16"
122.5 cms |
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Stock: 13603
An unusually tall and imposing Gothic Revival antique trumeau fireplace surround. The elegant triple cluster columns with their finely carved capitals support a plain panelled frieze, above which is the large trumeau embellished with carved Gothic tracery, below a simple panelled upper frieze and cornice.
French, circa 1900.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
80 11⁄16"
205 cms |
133 1⁄2"
339 cms |
22 3⁄8"
57 cms |
| Internal |
58 11⁄16"
149 cms |
55 7⁄8"
142 cms |
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Stock: 12993
A Bianco Pi antique marble fireplace mantel of considerable size in the Jacobean manner. The frieze, end blocks and jambs carved in traditional Geometric Gothic design the whole supported on plain square footblocks.
English, circa 1870.
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Depth |
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71 1⁄2"
181.5 cms |
52"
132 cms |
16 1⁄4"
41.5 cms |
| Internal |
46 1⁄8"
117 cms |
40 7⁄8"
104 cms |
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Stock: 13763
ECHOES OF PUGIN
A carved limestone Victorian Gothic Revival chimneypiece in the manner of AWN Pugin. The generous concave moulded and rope twist shelf above stylised flowers rests over the deeply moulded arched opening carved with a pair of quatrefoil set with inlaid geometric decoration.
English mid 19th century.
Notes: AWN Pugin(1812-1852) was an English architect, artist & designer who pioneered the Gothic Revival style in England and was responsible for the design of the interiors of Sir Charles Barry's Palace of Westminster.
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Height |
Depth |
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75 3⁄16"
191 cms |
54 1⁄4"
138 cms |
12"
30.5 cms |
| Internal |
36 1⁄8"
91.7 cms |
40 13⁄16"
103.6 cms |
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Stock: 10854
A large carved oak fireplace surround in the Italian Renaissance manner with a breakfront shelf and bands of carved foliate and acanthus detail on the under shelf. The frieze is inset with twin carved panels of putti holding urns amidst scrolled ornament. The figural endblocks are supported on Solomonic florally-entwined, spiral columns above lion masks on the foot blocks.
English Mid 19th century incorporating 17th century elements.
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Height |
Depth |
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80"
203.2 cms |
64 5⁄8"
164.1 cms |
10 3⁄8"
26.5 cms |
| Internal |
46 7⁄8"
119 cms |
43 7⁄8"
111.5 cms |
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Stock: 13792
One of a pair of arched warm coloured limestone Gothic Revival antique fireplaces, inlaid with polychrome encaustic tiles by the famous Minton tile works of Stoke on Trent. English, circa 1860.
A pair with Stock No 13791 not yet on the web.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
63"
160 cms |
48 3⁄8"
123 cms |
12"
30.5 cms |
| Internal |
34 1⁄4"
87 cms |
35"
89 cms |
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Stock: 13461
A rare Reformed Gothic Chimneypiece carved in the richly coloured and veined Ashburton Marble mined from the Linhay Quarry in Devon, England close to the ancient Stannary Town of Ashburton.
The chimneypiece is surmounted by a large stepped, corbelled shelf centred by a demi lune podium undercarved with Gothic detail. The formal stylised stiff foliage climbing the sturdy chamfered jambs, echoed around the arched opening and on the undercarving of the shelf, blossoms at the top under each shaped shelf into a more natutralistic Gothic display.
English, circa 1880.
Notes: In 1852 The Western Times, a Devon newspaper, reported that some large blocks of marble had been excavated from quarries adjoining the ancient Stannary Town of Ashburton. It was suggested at the time that the marble be used for the making of chimneypieces as the veins and colour were considered very decorative and superior to that found in any other quarry in South Devon. The Linhay Quarry was still being mined into the late 20th century.
King Edward I's Stannary Charter of 1305 had established Tavistock, Ashburton and Chagford as Devon's Stannary Towns, they were where locally mined refined tin was assessed, coined, and sold.
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Depth |
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64 5⁄8"
164 cms |
58 11⁄16"
149 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
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36 3⁄16"
92 cms |
43 1⁄4"
110 cms |
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Stock: 13530
A Tudor style arched limestone fireplace of beautiful proportion with an unusual stepped rectangular mantel, cavetto moulding, starpoint spandrels and bosses to the aperture.
English late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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64"
162.5 cms |
50"
127 cms |
5 1⁄2"
14 cms |
| Internal |
48 3⁄8"
123 cms |
41 1⁄4"
105 cms |
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Stock: 11408
A heavily carved antique oak chimneypiece in the Jacobean manner. The frieze centred with a mask of a crowned king flanked by floral festoons and endblock paterae, the jambs with tumbling floral and fruit festoons.
English, late 19th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
| External |
75 3⁄8"
191.5 cms |
57 1⁄8"
145 cms |
10 3⁄16"
26 cms |
| Internal |
38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
39"
99 cms |
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Stock: 13572
'PLUM PUDDING'.
A rare Irish Gothic Revival Fossil chimneypiece of the Regency Period carved in reddish brown Armagh Marble. The deeply moulded shelf of this imposing chimneypiece has projecting podiums at either end above a frieze embellished with a series of carved diamond lozenges. The shelf is supported by a pair of hexagonal free standing fluted columns in front of wide sturdy jambs and all are resting on dual five sided footblocks.
Irish, circa 1820
Notes: Sir Charles Coote, of the Royal Dublin Society, wrote in his 'Statistical
Survey of the County of Armagh' published in 1804 "...as we approach the city of Armagh the soil, though still limestone, yet changes to a purple hue and now approaches a species of marble - fossils appear of a beautiful and excellent quality, the prevailing hue is a reddish brown which mineralogists call 'Plum Pudding'. Many of the chimneypieces in Armagh and for several miles around were made of this native marble". The designer of this chimneypiece seems to have taken inspiration from ancient Greek architecture and in stripping out all ornamentation pre-empted the Art Deco movement by more than 100 years.
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depth |
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77 3⁄16"
196 cms |
59 11⁄16"
151.7 cms |
19 1⁄4"
49 cms |
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44 1⁄2"
113 cms |
44 7⁄8"
114 cms |
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Stock: 13584
A large Renaissance style walnut chimneypiece, intricately carved in high relief. The panelled frieze, embellished with scrolling floral vines centred by a grotesque mask, is flanked with a pair of lion mask endblocks. The tapering pilaster jambs of traditional Jacobean Gothic design are resting on stepped footblocks. The chimneypiece has a tall pyramidal trumeau made in our workshops from original antique walnut.
The chimneypiece is shown with a pair of beautifully carved beechwood Heraldic beasts a Lion and an Antelope. Each holds a scrolled cabuchon and is mounted on the shelf above the endblocks.
The Lion and Antelope are incorporated into the Coat of Arms of the City of Manchester in North West England. Theis pair were originally part of a set together with a plaque of the Coat of Arms and were probably from one of the City’s municipal buildings. The Coat of Arms was granted to the City in 1842 and was derived from the arms of Henry IV.
English, 1840s and later elements.
Note: Heraldic Beasts ex SNo 13297.
102cm wide by 46cm deep at the top of the trumeau.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
75 13⁄16"
192.5 cms |
123"
312.5 cms |
38"
96.5 cms |
| Internal |
47"
119.5 cms |
50"
127 cms |
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Stock: 10013
A large Yorkstone Chimneypiece in the Jacobean Revival manner with twin shields on the spandrels carved with mythical hounds bearing olive branches similar to those found on the City of Hull Coat of Arms.
Provenance: From The Royal Infirmary in Hull, Yorkshire, built in 1842 and demolished in the 1970s. The architect was H F Lockwood who later became the chief architect of Victorian Bradford and of Saltaire a Victorian model village within the City of Bradford, Yorkshire, England.
English late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
72"
183 cms |
57 1⁄2"
146 cms |
35 3⁄8"
90 cms |
| Internal |
47 3⁄16"
120 cms |
46 1⁄2"
118 cms |
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Stock: 11650
A low and wide carved limestone English Gothic style antique fireplace with a deeply moulded opening and substantial footblocks.
English early 19th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
| External |
56 1⁄2"
143.5 cms |
40"
101.6 cms |
3 3⁄16"
8.2 cms |
| Internal |
37 11⁄16"
95.8 cms |
31 1⁄2"
80 cms |
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Stock: 13484
A large, wide & sturdy antique oak fireplace surround in the English Jacobean manner, highly carved with bold pagan figures on the jambs supporting the finger fluted three panelled frieze flanked by grotesque masks beneath the wide heavily gadrooned shelf. The opening framed with egg and dart carved detail.
English late 19th century incorporating 17th century elements .
Shown together with a pair of massive andirons, SNo 13482, sold separately.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
98 3⁄8"
250 cms |
60 5⁄8"
154 cms |
10 5⁄8"
27 cms |
| Internal |
66 7⁄8"
170 cms |
44 1⁄2"
113 cms |
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Stock: 9318
A most striking and impressively tall Flemish, High Renaissance style chimneypiece in Polished Black Fossil and Red Griotte marble. The gadrooned carved shelf and low relief frieze decorated with alternating Griotte lozenges set within carved panels is supported on large carved projecting brackets above handsome tall Griotte columns, topped with Corinthian capitals, descending to high shaped socles.
Flemish 19th century.
SCALE :Tall, wide and grand.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
78 7⁄8"
200.5 cms |
78"
198 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
| Internal w/out insert |
46 1⁄2"
118 cms |
59 1⁄4"
150.5 cms |
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Stock: 13397
A small 19th century Carrara Marble Chimneypiece Mantel in the Italian Renaissance Manner richly carved in high relief, together with it’s original cast iron insert.The frieze, centred by a merman and mermaid flanking an elaborate strapwork cartouche, depicts a pair of birds set amongst scrolling fruits and flowers symbolising Peace and Abundance. The endblocks with tall garlanded cartouche above extraordinary tripedalism satyr grotesques holding beaded garlands in their mouths perched on elaborately carved and fluted jambs, and with an enriched linked acanthus border around the opening.
Italian, late 19th century.
Shown with a pair of Satyr Andirons SNo 7645 not included in the price.
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Depth |
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63 3⁄16"
160.5 cms |
42 7⁄8"
109 cms |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
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44 7⁄8"
114 cms |
33 1⁄8"
84 cms |
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Stock: 9902
A tall and impressive Italian Palazzo chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner richly carved in high relief statuary marble. The frieze of this grand fireplace mantel centred with a cameo nobleman's profile flanked by griffins and scrolling foliate decoration, the jambs with panels of urns, fruit & vines and carved capitals.
Italian, 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
91 1⁄8"
231.4 cms |
72 3⁄16"
183.5 cms |
17 1⁄2"
44.4 cms |
| Internal |
65 11⁄16"
167 cms |
54"
137.2 cms |
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Stock: 9807
A RARE, PERIOD VENETIAN RENAISSANCE CHIMNEYPIECE richly carved in Istrian stone. The carved detail on the frieze centered by a 'stemma nobilare' or family crest as yet not identified, flanked by a profusion of sharply defined scrolled foliage, urns of fruit and winged birds symbolising Peace and Abundance. The upper part sits on two typical scrolled Venetian capitals and the supporting jambs are carved with flaming urns over ears of wheat on their leaved stalks in tall planters below.
Italian 16th to 17th century. Photo before restoration.
COMMENTS : Renaissance Venice, The Lion City, The Floating Republic, imperial Venice where commerce ruled, which challenged the Pope and Islam but absorbed qualities from both. The city of Titian and Palladio.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
90"
228.5 cms |
72"
182.9 cms |
12 5⁄8"
32 cms |
| Internal |
63 3⁄8"
161 cms |
56"
142.2 cms |
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Stock: 8958
A large Flemish chimneypiece in black fossil marble with Tinos green marble panels, a gadrooned undershelf, fluted brackets and full round columns. Awaits re- polishing.19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
70 7⁄8"
180.2 cms |
73"
185.5 cms |
18"
45.7 cms |
| Internal |
40 5⁄8"
103 cms |
53 3⁄16"
135.2 cms |
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Stock: 8864
A very grand Italian Renaissance style antique fireplace mantel in white Statuary Marble. The stepped shelf, edged with richly carved lambs tongue detail over an egg and dart border, sits above a very fine frieze which is made from one block and carved in high relief with linked palmette motifs supported by scrolled acanthus brackets resting above intricately carved panelled jambs.
Italian, mid 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
83 1⁄2"
212 cms |
71 11⁄16"
182 cms |
16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
| Internal |
57 1⁄2"
146 cms |
57 1⁄8"
145 cms |
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Stock: 13368
JACOBEAN REVIVAL:
A carved oak fireplace and overmantel in the Jacobean Revival manner, the overmantel with alternating Tudor roses and acanthus motifs above panelled arched niches either side of a strapwork panel centred by a cherubic mask and separated by tapering fluted columns with acanthus leaf corbels. The wide shelf, supported on two large corbels, above a decoratively carved frieze.The jambs of a more simplistic design with related tapering column motif and square footblocks.
Recently removed from a farmhouse in Yorkshire.
English mid 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
81 1⁄2"
207 cms |
95 11⁄16"
243 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
| Internal |
51 3⁄16"
130 cms |
43 1⁄8"
109.4 cms |
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Stock: 13150
WALNUT TRUMEAU:
A Majestic Dutch Walnut Trumeau Chimneypiece from a house in the old centre of the City of Haarlem, Holland.
Purportedly originally part of a panelled room in an 18th century manor house on the country estate of Landgoed Beeckestijn in the surrounding region, it was moved to the house in the City of Haarlem in the 1920's. Carved with Gothic Puginesque elements and fluted columns the elaborate cabuchon bears the monogram JB and is flanked by lion mask heads on the end blocks.
Dutch, mid 19th century.
Notes: The initials may be those of Jacob Boreel whose family owned the estate until the 1950s and who was responsible for major renovations to the house in the late 18th century. The manor was built on the edge of the dunes in the Kennemerland region as a summer residence for a wealthy Amsterdam regent. Badly damamged during World War II the manor subsequently underwent further extensive restoration.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
76"
193 cms |
131 1⁄2"
334 cms |
26 13⁄16"
68 cms |
| Internal |
48 3⁄16"
122.5 cms |
34 5⁄8"
88 cms |
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Stock: 13394
A large white & grey veined Old English Marble fireplace surround in the Victorian Gothic manner, with typical Gothic tracery on the endblocks and acanthus leaf decoration on the spandrels..
Mid 19th century
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
73 1⁄4"
186.3 cms |
54 1⁄4"
138 cms |
12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
| Internal |
40 7⁄8"
104 cms |
41 11⁄16"
106 cms |
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Stock: 13196
A highly unusual Renaissance style carved and painted pine fire surround
and overmantel in the Elizabethan manner with eight simulated leather panels depicting figures from Medieval times. The four panels on the frieze illustrate two scenes from court; one of a king and his minstrel; the second a jovial lord and jester; the other two illustrate domestic scenes; one of a lady sewing with her children playing beside her and the other of a lady spinning yarn with her cat beside her. The four on the jambs depict scantily clad water maidens each in various poses and bearing pitchers. The reeded frieze is centred with carved
strapwork above an opening edged with foliate beaded decoration.
English 1920s.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
75 3⁄16"
191 cms |
74"
188 cms |
8 1⁄8"
20.5 cms |
| Internal |
40 3⁄16"
102 cms |
35 13⁄16"
91 cms |
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Stock: 12928
An impressive Gothic Revival Fire Surround in lightly veined Carrara Marble. The simple moulded shelf set above a pointed arched opening and with typical Gothic tracery carvings on the frieze, the end blocks and the panelled jambs. English mid 19th century. Known provenance.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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Depth |
| External |
74 3⁄8"
189 cms |
51 3⁄8"
130.5 cms |
13"
33 cms |
| Internal |
38 3⁄16"
97 cms |
38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
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Stock: 10847
THE GREEN MAN CHIMNEYPIECE:
A large well carved oak chimneypiece in the English Jacobean manner. The overmantel with four fluted columns topped by ornate capitals enclosing two rows of three panels, the central panel depicting the emotive Green Man Mask above a row of three Gothic niche. The fireplace frieze, flanked by similar fluted columns and capitals, is carved with Celtic strapwork. English, part 17th century, rebuilt in the early 19th century with matching elements.
Notes: The Green Man motif is usually depicted as a face surrounded by or made from leaves and sprouting branches or vines, surrounded by flowers or fruit. It often be found as a decorative architectural ornament or carving in churches. It has many variations and is found in many cultures from many ages around the world, He is primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of growth each spring.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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Width |
height |
Depth |
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66 1⁄2"
169 cms |
101 5⁄8"
258 cms |
11 13⁄16"
30 cms |
| Internal |
35 13⁄16"
91 cms |
41 1⁄8"
104.5 cms |
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Stock: 12570
A substantial Tudor Revival style Derbyshire Fossil Limestone chimneypiece. The spandrels carved with trailing rosette and shield motifs, the left jamb carved with the initials FPVC, the right jamb with the date 1916.
English early 20th century.
Provenance: The initials on the left jamb may refer to a Frederick Daniel Parslow VC (14 January 1856 – 4 July 1915) who was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Parslow was a Master in the Mercantile Marine, and the first from that Service to be awarded a Victoria Cross. He was the oldest person to receive the VC for actions in World War I.
Notes:The Clipsham fossil stone is dense & hard and will take a polish.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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Depth |
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69 1⁄8"
175.5 cms |
51"
129.5 cms |
6 1⁄4"
16 cms |
| Internal |
59 3⁄8"
151 cms |
38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
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Stock: 12576
" AWAY TO NEWMARKET " This delicately carved oak Jacobean chimneypiece is attributed to the provenance of the original Royal Palace built by King James Ist in Newmarket in 1606-10, from which time Newmarket became the “Resort of Kings “as the centre of horse racing which is still known as “ The Sport of Kings “. The Royal Palace was the smallest of King James's palaces and cost £ 20,000 to build.
James Ist was the first to import an Arab stallion into England for racing. Later, around 1724, three Arab stallions were imported and crossbred with English mares to produce the thoroughbred horse from which all thoroughbred horses worldwide are descended...The original horses were named after their owners: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk.
The first Newmarket Royal Palace built by James I from which this chimneypiece orginates was succeeded by another palace built by James' grandson Charles II of which the present Palace House is the surviving element.
Please note the image of an advert published in 1934 from Hotspur Antiques which advertises this same chimneypiece as being " from a Stuart King's palace near Newmarket, Suffolk" The original 1606-10 Royal Newmarket Palace was neglected and later destroyed during the Commonwealth / Republic period of Oliver Cromwell. The chimneypiece would have gone into royal custody. It was bought by us on the Isle of Wight where it's provenance was believed to be that it came from a house on the Osborne estate of Queen Victoria.
Shown with 12570, a 19th century Clipsham fossil stone, Jacobean Revival interior / bolection. English, early 17th century.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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width |
height |
depth |
| External |
104 11⁄16"
266 cms |
95 11⁄16"
243 cms |
8 11⁄16"
22 cms |
| Internal |
76 13⁄16"
195 cms |
54 7⁄8"
139.5 cms |
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The term Renaissance, used here, covers other related periods and styles in different regions. Antique Italian Renaissance fireplaces are still to be found in the Palazzi and Villas of Venice and Florence particularly. Antique Gothic, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor and Jacobean fireplace mantels, including English and Scottish, likewise can be found in many a great English, Scottish, Irish, and later also American, Country or Town House, Residence or Palace. Gothic architecture preceded the Renaissance and later of course there were the Neo Gothic, Renaissance, Jacobean and Tudor Revival of the 18th and 19th centuries - when a style or pastiche of a style became fashionable, a trend which continues to this day.
Viewing our range of Antique Gothic, Renaissance and Jacobean fireplaces, chimneypieces and mantels may contain just the one to suit your needs.
Gothic fireplaces
The Gothic style, with its origins in medieval Europe, endured the centuries to remain a popular building style. It perhaps enjoyed its greatest revival in the Victorian period, where architects such as AWN Pugin designed grand private residences in the Gothic Revival style. These buildings were adorned with Gothic stone fireplaces with intricate carved tracery and arched openings. A Gothic fireplace can also be carved from beautiful marbles, infinite in their variety, and even made from a wonderful melange of multiple marbles, so that the Gothic fireplace surround can stand out even more against its iron or masonry interior.
Such Gothic antiques look beautiful when displayed in period interiors, but they needn’t be confined to period homes. A Gothic fireplace can look beautifully striking when installed within a more contemporary home, especially if there are other Gothic antiques within the same interior.
Tudor, Renaissance and Jacob fireplaces
In Europe, the Renaissance fireplace was rooted in the classical traditions of antiquity, most often emerging as columned fireplaces carved with classical motifs and mythical creatures. In 16th century England, the Tudor fireplace combined elements of the European Renaissance fireplace, with the forms of the English Gothic fireplace to create a grand style that was most often rendered in stone. The Tudor fireplace was most often confined to manor houses and larger stately homes, as more modest properties were still using simple inglenooks. Later, the Jacobean fireplace emerged, a profusion of carving most often in wood and like the Tudor fireplace surround, sometimes in stone.
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