A Magnificent and Highly Important Louis XV Style White Carrara Marble Figural Fireplace
Circa 1870
REF No. B74780
dimensions
Height :120 cm | 47¹/₄ in
Width :172 cm | 67³/₄ in
Depth :56 cm | 22 in
Width :172 cm | 67³/₄ in
Depth :56 cm | 22 in
description
A Magnificent and Highly Important Louis XV Style White Carrara Marble Figural Fireplace.
This exceptional marble fireplace has a shaped mantel above a frieze finely carved with scrolling acanthus, flowers and a grotesque mask, centred by a cartouche carved with the coat of arms of a Spanish noble House beneath a coronet. The jambs are each exuberantly carved with expressive putti heads above imposing scrolling volutes, foliate festoons and terminating in fronded acanthus put don on a plinth base.
Spanish, Circa 1870.
Dimensions of Aperture
Maximum Height: 88 cm
Minimum Height 69 cm
Width 97 cm
This exceptional marble fireplace has a shaped mantel above a frieze finely carved with scrolling acanthus, flowers and a grotesque mask, centred by a cartouche carved with the coat of arms of a Spanish noble House beneath a coronet. The jambs are each exuberantly carved with expressive putti heads above imposing scrolling volutes, foliate festoons and terminating in fronded acanthus put don on a plinth base.
Spanish, Circa 1870.
Dimensions of Aperture
Maximum Height: 88 cm
Minimum Height 69 cm
Width 97 cm
