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Stock No: 12484
A French Rococo fireplace surround in the Louis XV manner in white veined Carrara marble with a serpentine breakfront shelf above a charming central shell cartouche above a well shaped opening the end blocks carved with foliate and astragal style decoration above panelled c-scroll jambs .
French, 19th Century.br>
Link to: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
62.3"
158.3 cms |
42.9"
109 cms |
14.9"
37.8 cms |
| Internal |
37.0"
94 cms |
34.4"
87.5 cms |
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Stock No: 10444
A small and compact Louis XV manner French Rococo fireplace in lightly veined Carrara marble with a fielded frieze centred by a stylised shell cartouche beneath a serpentine breakfront shelf the end blocks with foliate astragal style decoration above c-scroll fielded jambs.
French, 19th Century.br>
Link to: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
52.8"
134 cms |
41.1"
104.5 cms |
14.2"
36 cms |
| Internal |
38.4"
97.5 cms |
34.4"
87.5 cms |
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Stock No: 12842
RARE MAJESTY & GRANDEUR. An extremely large and imposing Louis XV Fleur de Pecheur marble chimneypiece. The serpentine shelf above a intricatly carved central coquille cartouche between scolling acanthus leaves flanked by a panelled frieze ending in large carved shields, with further " C " scrolls and serpentine carved detail, descending on canted jambs to carved scale and floral decoration, together with the original three panelled cast iron inserts. French Early 20th century.
Shown with firegrate SNo 10920 a replica of SNo 7522.
Provenance:
James Leary Flood Mansion, San Francisco, California.
In the aftermath of the Great Quake of 1906, the Flood's home on Nob Hill was destroyed by fire. Maud Flood fled San Francisco fearful of living in a city where such devastation could strike so suddenly. James Leary Flood reassured his wife, saying, "I will build you a house of marble on a hill of granite." And that is precisely what he did.
He hired renowned architects Bliss & Faville, began construction in 1912 and three years later moved his family in, just in time to enjoy the panoramic view overlooking the 1915 Panama Pacific World Exposition which filled the land below stretching to the Bay. He probably commisioned French carvers to make this chimneypiece to match the scale of Flood Mansion.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
106.3"
270 cms |
60.0"
152.5 cms |
24.6"
62.5 cms |
| Internal |
53.1"
135 cms |
40.4"
102.5 cms |
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ANTIQUE FIREPLACE MANTELS AND CHIMNEYPIECES IN THE ROCOCO STYLE of the 18th and 19th centuries : This delicate and playful style, regarded by some at the time as risque was established in the 1730’s in France and became widespread in Europe during that century. Rococo fireplaces, mantels and chimneypieces in marble, stone and wood which in 18c England were frequently gilded, were again prolific in the Rococo Revival period of the early to mid 19th century mostly in Italy and France but many fine and grand examples were exported in great numbers to England, Ireland and Scotland. During the reign of Louis XV and the preceeding Regence period a more feminine frivolity and intimacy held sway in the arts as a reaction to the monumnetal formality of the Baroque period,which the rest of Europe also embraced. In England and Germany Rococo was consolidated with the Oriental influences of China to be seen in the chimneypiece mantels of Thomas Chippendale and in Frederick the Great's Schloss von Sans Souci " No Worries " in French in Potsdam. At its best, although not everybodys Tasse de Te, Rococo is to be enjoined , as Der Alte Fritz appreciated , to lighten the mood and to encourage gaiety and delight like the Capital City of its Pays D'origine....Voila !
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