Antique Wood Fireplaces

Browse our large collection of antique wooden fireplaces, mantels and chimneypieces in a selection of mahogany, oak, walnut and pine. Styles range from Jacobean and Renaissance to Art Deco and Art Nouveau.

  • 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 78"
    187.7 cms
    96 14"
    244.5 cms
    12 1116"
    32.2 cms
    Internal 32 14"
    82 cms
    37 1316"
    96 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 1316"
    164.5 cms
    96 1116"
    245.5 cms
    9 58"
    24.5 cms
    Internal 37 58"
    95.5 cms
    45 14"
    115 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 1316"
    200.1 cms
    62 58"
    159 cms
    7 78"
    20.1 cms
    Internal 52"
    132 cms
    45 14"
    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 12"
    169 cms
    58 12"
    148.6 cms
    7 14"
    18.6 cms
    Internal 48 18"
    122.3 cms
    45 1116"
    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 73 316"
    186 cms
    61 18"
    155.1 cms
    7"
    17.7 cms
    Internal 54 1116"
    139 cms
    48"
    122 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 58"
    230 cms
    129 78"
    330 cms
    14 316"
    36 cms
    Internal 53 1116"
    136.5 cms
    60"
    152.5 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 89 316"
    226.5 cms
    62 58"
    159 cms
    12"
    30.5 cms
    Internal 50 1316"
    129 cms
    43 12"
    110.5 cms
  • Stock: 15057

    An enormous Baroque style oak chimneypiece. Heavily carved throughout with a pedimented shelf, a gadrooned undershelf set with two small lion masks, a panelled tongue and dart frieze flanked by pairs of large lion masks on the endblocks and carved strapwork jambs standing on large stepped footblocks. Photos before restoration.
    French, circa 1860.

    Shown here with fire grate SNo 12948 not included

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    Width Height Depth
    External 98 38"
    250 cms
    74 1316"
    190 cms
    Internal 60 316"
    153 cms
    50 58"
    128.5 cms
  • Stock: 14787

    A large and grand Victorian walnut fireplace surround. The corniced, breakfront shelf resting on a plain frieze, beneath a dentil border, is centred by a carved plaque of mythical beasts. The large cartouche endblocks above tall ornately carved panels topped by ancone brackets fronting the jambs. The plain frame around the fireplace opening is centred by a carving of vases, frond and fruits amid acanthus foliage and a pair of intriguing, playful putti.
    English, circa 1880.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 87 1316"
    223 cms
    65 38"
    166 cms
    9 1316"
    24.9 cms
    Internal 50 1316"
    129 cms
    48 1316"
    124 cms
  • Stock: 9077

    A substantial Victorian antique oak fireplace surround in the Renaissance manner. The moulded shelf, above carved dentil detail, rests on a frieze set with three urn and foliate carved panels and is supported on a pair of fluted pilasters and a pair of free standing columns, all with Corinthian capitals, standing on large footblocks. English, late 19th Century.

    Shown here with andirons SNo 14839 not included.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 73 1116"
    187.2 cms
    57 18"
    145 cms
    12"
    30.5 cms
    Internal 40 316"
    102 cms
    40 316"
    102 cms
  • Stock: 9300

    A well carved English Rococo style dark mahogany wood antique fireplace mantel. The serpentine shelf supported by large C scrolled brackets is set over an inset frieze panel with carved rosette hatched motif and a central floral cartouche. The scrolled angled, scrolled console jambs terminate in curled feet above large footblocks. English, late 19th century.

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    Width Height
    External 63"
    160 cms
    51"
    129.5 cms
    Internal 39"
    99 cms
    39 38"
    100 cms
  • Stock: 10649

    A pleasingly simple Edwardian, carved oak antique fireplace surround raised on tall footblocks and with trailing foliate detail carving around the opening.
    English, circa 1910.

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    width height depth
    External 56 316"
    142.7 cms
    47 18"
    119.7 cms
    6"
    15.3 cms
    Internal 44 14"
    112.5 cms
    41 18"
    104.5 cms
  • Stock: 14700

    A large finely carved walnut Gothic Revival chimneypiece and over mantel. The carved central plaque depicting fighting hunting dogs is flanked by a running frieze of quatrefoils, supported on the heads of kneeling monks on stiff leaf corbels over simple stop chamfered jambs. The galleried over mantel with four slender corinthian capped columns, supporting finely carved Gothic tracery either side of a central panel containing an oil on canvas painting of a nobleman bearing a standard with the motto FAC ET SPERA ( DO AND HOPE), standing in front of his castle, either side of which are two small corbeled shelves in the form of crouching musicians.
    French, circa 1880.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 68 78"
    175 cms
    116 18"
    295 cms
    25 316"
    64 cms
    Internal 51 58"
    131 cms
    48 38"
    123 cms
  • Stock: 14638

    A tall antique Renaissance style carved, columned Walnut Trumeau chimneypiece, with its original brass insert. The central arched pediment, containing a deeply carved salamander, is flanked by a fretwork gallery set over a plain frieze, supported on barley twist columns with Corinthian capitals.
    French, late 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 64"
    162.5 cms
    106 78"
    271.5 cms
    18 12"
    47 cms
    Internal 35 38"
    90 cms
    43 1116"
    111 cms
  • Stock: 14605

    A large Renaissance style carved Oak chimneypiece, with original brass and cast iron insert. The richly carved frieze of scrolling foliage with a central mask is flanked by spread eagle end blocks, supported on free standing Atlanteans. Shown here with matching andirons SNo 14609 not included in the price.
    French, circa 1870.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 77"
    195.5 cms
    63 58"
    161.5 cms
    24 1316"
    63 cms
    internal wood 43 1116"
    111 cms
    47 38"
    120.5 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
    114 316"
    290 cms
    22 58"
    57.5 cms
    Internal 34 1316"
    88.5 cms
    39 58"
    100.5 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 1316"
    164.5 cms
    54 78"
    139.5 cms
    9 38"
    24 cms
    Internal 41 78"
    106.5 cms
    39 18"
    99.4 cms
  • Stock: 6577

    An antique French carved oak chimneypiece and overmantel in the Renaissance style flanked by two full height cupboards concealed behind panelling. The high shaped pediment of the overrmantel is set above a gadrooned undershelf beneath which are a pair of strapwork panels with alternating reeded columns. The fireplace surround with a further gadrooned undershelf flanked by a pair of lions head masks above caryatid and strapwork jambs.
    French late 19th century.

    Shown here with fire basket SNo 14140 not included in the price.

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    Overall Width Height Depth
    external 181 78"
    462 cms
    126"
    320 cms
    27 58"
    70 cms
    internal
  • Stock: 13878

    A tall carved oak fireplace in the Jacobean style. The high overmantel is set with three decorative panels beneath which are two arched panels either side of a geometric panel, alternating with baton posts and resting on the simple fireplace surround with further baton posts on the reeded jambs.
    English, late 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 74 18"
    188.3 cms
    100 38"
    255 cms
    4 1116"
    12 cms
    Internal 56 12"
    143.5 cms
    53 14"
    135.5 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 14"
    168.5 cms
    63 1316"
    162 cms
    12"
    30.5 cms
    internal 39 12"
    100.3 cms
    37 1316"
    96 cms
  • Stock: 14430

    A most attractive and tall Arts & Crafts Ash fireplace mantel with three inset repousse copper panels on the overmantel in the style of CFA Voysey, flanked by a pair of demi lune shelves and with slim free standing tapering columns supporting the high pediment resting on pedestal mounted footblocks. The Design Number 25732091 is stamped on the back. Photographed before cleaning and shown together with fire basket SNo 12594 not included in the price. English, possibly Scottish, circa 1910.

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    width height
    63 38"
    161 cms
    68 78"
    175 cms
    40 316"
    102 cms
    37 1316"
    96 cms
  • 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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    width height depth
    external 88 38"
    224.5 cms
    89"
    226 cms
    18 18"
    46 cms
    internal stone 47 58"
    121 cms
    41 1116"
    106 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 18"
    180.5 cms
    79 12"
    202 cms
    10"
    25.5 cms
    Internal 44 1116"
    113.5 cms
    40 1116"
    103.5 cms
  • Stock: 13945

    A simple panelled walnut antique fireplace surround set with very fine and rare Aesthetic Movement Tiles made by Minton & Company ( 1828 - 1868 ). The tiles, exquisitely hand painted in the unburnished precious metals of fine gold, platinum and dragon red rhodium, depict cranes flying and feeding over tranquil lakes amid islands of bamboo and are the work of Japanese artists brought over by Mintons in the 1880's to add their skills and artistry to that of the Minton ceramicists.
    English circa 1880.

    Note: Rhodium is from the Greek word 'rhodon' meaning rose and was discovered in 1803 by a William Hyde Wollaston, an English chemist, shortly after his discovery of the element palladium. Rhodium tends to occur along with deposits of platinum and is primarily obtained as a byproduct of mining and refining platinum.

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    width hight depth
    72 1316"
    185 cms
    54 78"
    139.5 cms
    10 316"
    26 cms
    42 12"
    108 cms
    40 38"
    102.5 cms
  • Stock: 14157

    A most attractive large Edwardian fireplace surround carved in beautiful rich Rosewood with very fine, high quality mother of pearl floral marquetry panels on the central frieze panel, endblocks and jambs and a with large dog leg opening.
    English circa 1910

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    Width Height Depth
    External 73 316"
    186 cms
    55 78"
    142 cms
    13"
    33 cms
    Internal 41 14"
    105 cms
    38 316"
    97 cms
  • 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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    width height depth
    69 1116"
    177 cms
    89 38"
    227 cms
    12 38"
    31.5 cms
    41 78"
    106.5 cms
    42 18"
    107 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 78"
    119 cms
    75 316"
    191 cms
    18 18"
    46 cms
    Internal 29 78"
    76 cms
    38 58"
    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.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 79 1116"
    202.5 cms
    107 18"
    272 cms
    29 78"
    76 cms
    Internal 46 78"
    119 cms
    35"
    89 cms
  • 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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    width height depth
    90 316"
    229 cms
    75 316"
    191 cms
    11 58"
    29.5 cms
    48 316"
    122.5 cms
    48 316"
    122.5 cms
  • 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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    Width Height Depth
    External 80 1116"
    205 cms
    133 12"
    339 cms
    22 38"
    57 cms
    Internal 58 1116"
    149 cms
    55 78"
    142 cms
  • Stock: 8512

    A large and grand painted pine & gesso Adam style Georgian fireplace surround. The breakfront shelf over a foliate decorated central tablet and frieze, supported on tapered columns with Ionic capitals.
    Photo before restoration.
    English, mid 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 83 18"
    211 cms
    58 18"
    147.5 cms
    13"
    33 cms
    Internal 48"
    122 cms
    41 1116"
    106 cms
  • Stock: 13405

    A Grand Repousse Copper antique Fireplace Surround.
    Attributed to John Pearson (1859—1930) Master Coppersmith and founder member of the Guild of Handicrafts.

    This elaborately decorated fireplace on its mahogany ground follows a maritime theme depicting mythical sea creatures in the deep and Galleons riding the waves in rolling seas all typical of Pearson's work.
    English circa 1900.

    Notes: In early life John Pearson worked with William de Morgan developing his trademark designs and creations of mythological animals, birds, sea creatures, dragons and galleons, fanciful trees & fruit, all to be very evident throughout his life in his repousse copper work. In 1888 C R Ashbee, the designer and social idealist, offered him the chance to be a founder member of the Guild of Handicraft, a co-operative of Craftsmen being set up in Whitechapel, London and he accepted the offer. He resigned some years later following a dispute with his colleagues but continued to work independently mostly in repousse copper metalware, producing chargers, vases, firescreens, mirror frames and the like.

    Both Liberty and Morris sold his work in this period. In 1929, he closed his workshop and retired to Canvey Island in Essex where, a few months later, he died. At his death, his occupation was described as 'art connoisseur'.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 70 18"
    178 cms
    61"
    155 cms
    13 58"
    34.5 cms
    Internal 43 1116"
    111 cms
    42 18"
    107 cms
  • Stock: 13593

    MONUMENTAL VENETIAN BAROQUE:

    A superb highly ornate carved Walnut Chimneypiece. The architectural pediment, surmounted by a pair of reclining putti above a tympanum centred by a carved panel depicting Vulcans Forge, is flanked by figures of the twins Castor and Pollux known as the Dioskouri and the whole is supported on the shoulders of two massive carved figures of Atlas.The carving is typical of the nineteenth century Italian school, beautiful and seemingly effortless.
    Italian circa 1870.

    This piece was removed from a North American mansion together with
    an associated sideboard SNo13592, see last image. Both were almost
    certainly carved by Italian craftsmen and probably commissioned in
    the late 19th century.

    Notes: Vulcan was the Roman God of fire & volcanoes, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture. In Greek mythology he was known as Hephaestus. He was the son of Juno and Jupiter and because he was born lame legend says that his mother being so displeased at the sight of him flung him out of heaven. He was, though, married to and deeply loved by Venus, the goddess of love and beauty.

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    Width Height Depth
    96 18"
    244 cms
    115"
    292 cms
    24"
    61 cms
    55 78"
    142 cms
    53 12"
    136 cms
  • Stock: 13801

    A highly decorative carved pine chimneypiece mantel in the George III style. The central plaque on the frieze, depicting three putti carrying a deer, is flanked by floral and fruiting swags. The twin foliate paterae on the endblocks are set above rams heads from which garlands tumble down the jambs. The opening is edged with egg and dart detail.
    English, late 19th century.

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    width height depth
    External 63 38"
    161 cms
    56 1116"
    144 cms
    6 12"
    16.5 cms
    Internal 36 1316"
    93.5 cms
    41 1116"
    106 cms
  • Stock: 13838

    ART NOUVEAU BEAUTY An exceptional and rare carved oak Art Nouveau chimneypiece with an integral decorative cast iron hooded insert set between two red tiled panels beneath the centred embossed copper plaque. The carved athemion detail echoed on the insert and tiles, together with the graceful sweep of the arch framing the opening, flanked by twin slim reeded columns, is very typical of the designs of this period. English, circa 1900.

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    width height depth
    60 316"
    153 cms
    70 78"
    180 cms
    10 1316"
    27.5 cms
    17 1116"
    45 cms
    23 58"
    60 cms
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