Stock No: 7741

A very finely carved Italian Mannerist Baroque style antique fireplace in Statuary marble with a simple rectangular shelf over a frieze with rich floral decoration centred by a mask of Medusa, with dragons heads on the end blocks above high relief acanthus leaf carved fluted jambs on clawed feet.
Italian, circa 1850, (photo before restoration).

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