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.
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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 7⁄8"
119 cms |
75 3⁄16"
191 cms |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
| Internal |
29 7⁄8"
76 cms |
38 5⁄8"
98 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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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
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: 10564
A tall antique carved oak fireplace surround & overmantel in the Jacobean style. The surround with fluted corinthian column jambs and a cushioned mantel shelf, the overmantel with two quartered panels separated by three pilaster Aztec style figures with stylised floral headdresses. The upper frieze, flanked by grotesque masks, is centred by a plain shield surrounded by scrolling leaf & figural carved decoration.
English mid 19th century incorporating 17th century and 18th century carved elements.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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height |
depth |
| External |
84 5⁄8"
215 cms |
99"
251.5 cms |
8 11⁄16"
22 cms |
| Internal |
59 3⁄8"
151 cms |
49 3⁄16"
125 cms |
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Listed Price: £10,500 restored.(+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13627
A tall and stately rosewood and ebony chimneypiece and overmantle in the
French Baroque manner. The overmantle mirror, framed with egg and dart
& fleur de lys decoration, is set beneath a large cartouche centred with a
monogrammed boss with the letters FF and is flanked by ebony lozenge detail and ribboned foliate festoons.
The fireplace, with panels of foliate decoration on the frieze and endblocks,
is supported by a pair of free standing, elaborately carved ebony columns
fronting the jambs and framing the slow arched opening which is edged
with egg and dart detail and further ribboned foliate festoons.
French, mid to late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
59 1⁄8"
150 cms |
101 3⁄8"
257.5 cms |
16 7⁄8"
43 cms |
| Internal |
33 1⁄8"
84 cms |
34 13⁄16"
88.5 cms |
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Stock: 13638
A tall carved antique walnut chimneypiece in the Italian Renaissance manner.
The stepped shelf and pediment is set above a shallow frieze with a pair
of mythical dragons either side of a central grotesque mask amid
scrolling foliage, flanked by squared foliate endblocks and supported on a pair of elaborate Solomonic Columns.The elaborately carved double inner frieze has four panelled shell cartouche above a panel centred with a crowned, quartered shield guarded on either side by a further pair of mythical dragons. The opening is edged with a guilloche detail and the whole is raised on substantial carved
footblocks. Provenance: Removed from a Theological College in Glasgow, Scotland.
Italian, late 19th century.
Shown here with a pair of Gothic style andirons SNo 13416 not included.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
76 3⁄8"
194 cms |
81 1⁄2"
207 cms |
16 1⁄4"
41.5 cms |
| Internal |
37 13⁄16"
96 cms |
39 3⁄8"
100 cms |
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Listed Price: £18,600 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13661
A tall and boldly carved walnut trumeau fireplace surround in the Renaissance style. The high simple panelled trumeau has a large moulded cornice.The upper frieze, with a central cartouche flanked by floral scrolls, is set above the main frieze upon which is carved, in high relief, a fire breathing salamander the heraldic beast of Francois I of France and the symbol of survival. The jambs are fronted by a pair of stop fluted columns with ornate scrolled acanthus capitals.
French Mid 19th century. (Photo before final cleaning and polishing.)
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
62 5⁄8"
159 cms |
114 5⁄8"
291 cms |
22"
56 cms |
| Internal |
37"
94 cms |
39"
99 cms |
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Stock: 13606
A tall carved French Baroque style oak fireplace and overmantle. The stepped
shelf above egg & dart detail is set above the frieze, carved with scrolling foliate decoration and centred by a cushioned cartouche, flanked by a pair of similar cartouche on the endblocks. The jambs topped by a pair of carved lion masks, the mirror framed by twin fluted pilasters topped with Corinthian capitals and with egg and dart edging. French circa 1880.
French circa 1880.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
68 1⁄8"
173 cms |
70 1⁄2"
179 cms |
36 5⁄8"
93 cms |
| Internal |
37 3⁄8"
95 cms |
52 3⁄8"
133 cms |
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Listed Price: £24,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13865
A carved oak antique fireplace mantel in the Renaissance manner. The frieze, below the generously moulded shelf, with a delicately carved foliate and floral panel is flanked by end blocks with bunches of fruit tied with ribbons. The tall free standing columns fronting the jambs, with carved spiral beaded detail beneath Corinthian capitals, terminate with swags of flowers, foliage and beads above large foot blocks. French, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
59 1⁄4"
150.5 cms |
65 3⁄16"
165.5 cms |
27"
68.5 cms |
| Internal |
41 1⁄4"
105 cms |
53 7⁄8"
137 cms |
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Listed Price: £11,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12673
A very fine, beautifully and elaborately carved pine English Rococo Fireplace Surround in the manner of Thomas Chippendale. The frieze centred by a very large floral cartouche intrinsic to the frieze, the delicate foliate decoration continuing onto the top of the jambs beneath finely carved scrolled endblocks.
English circa 1750.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
72"
183 cms |
45 1⁄2"
115.5 cms |
7 7⁄8"
20 cms |
| Internal |
63"
160 cms |
38 3⁄8"
97.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £6,000 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 13331
A tall carved pine fireplace surround, in the George III manner, with a highly carved frieze of griffins, fruits and swags. Originally with coloured marble slips which we can supply in antique green Connemara marble, black Kilkenny marble or veined white Statuary marble.
English, circa 1890.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
71"
180.4 cms |
58 11⁄16"
149 cms |
6 1⁄8"
15.5 cms |
| Internal |
51 5⁄8"
131 cms |
44 3⁄16"
112.2 cms |
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Stock: 11594
A very attractive English Regency carved pine, mahogany and composition giltwood chimneypiece. The mahogany breakfront shelf above richly carved lambs tongue motif, the reeded frieze with acanthus endstops, the columned jambs topped with the same. Please note that the shelf has not been glued.
English, early 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
68 1⁄2"
174 cms |
53 1⁄2"
136 cms |
7 1⁄2"
19 cms |
| Internal |
50 13⁄16"
129 cms |
43 11⁄16"
111 cms |
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Listed Price: £12,500 Excluding marble(+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12794
A small decoratively carved oak fireplace in the Jacobean Revival manner with a substantial castellated shelf above a boldly carved leaf adornment on the frieze. A pair of bearded caryatid fronting the jambs, supported on swagged plinths, terminating in simple shaped footblocks. With restorations.
English, early 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
56 11⁄16"
144 cms |
48 13⁄16"
124 cms |
8 1⁄8"
20.5 cms |
| Internal |
34 13⁄16"
88.5 cms |
37 3⁄16"
94.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £8,500 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12713
A tall carved pine chimneypiece in the style of William Kent, with a prominent shelf above a frieze profusely carved with scrolling acanthus centred by a female mask. Late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
73 3⁄8"
186.5 cms |
73 3⁄8"
186.5 cms |
9 3⁄8"
24 cms |
| Internal |
54 1⁄4"
138 cms |
50 3⁄8"
128 cms |
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Listed Price: £4,400 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11616
A large carved polished pine fireplace mantel in the English Baroque manner. The breakfront shelf set over dentilled, castellated detail above an inset frieze panel centred with a clamshell carved in high relief over scrolled cartouche. The opening is flanked by descending bellflower decoration and set within are the original veined and figured pale Sienna marble ingrounds and original black Belgian fossil marble fender.
English, circa 1920, with known London Provenance.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
86 7⁄8"
220.6 cms |
75 1⁄4"
191.3 cms |
18 1⁄4"
46.5 cms |
| Internal |
48 5⁄8"
123.5 cms |
46 3⁄8"
117.8 cms |
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Listed Price: £7,800 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12493
A tall 19th century walnut chimneypiece and overmantel in the French Renaissance Revival manner. The panelled overmantel shown without a painting or tapestry in the space provided. The upper frieze fluted at the front and the sides, with rich acanthus floral carving on the corners, above the lower panelled frieze supported on large full round, tapering, stop fluted columns. Image before restoration and revival of polish. Photos before restoration.
French, mid 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
57 7⁄8"
147 cms |
115 11⁄16"
294 cms |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
| Internal |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
38"
96.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £7,300 restored(+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11467
A large carved pine and limewood period Georgian Chimneypiece in the manner of Robert Adam. The varied and profusely carved detail on virtually every surface is of the highest quality and is typical of Robert Adam's late 18th century creations. The central tablet is again carved in limewood, the detail showing a pagan Roman-style ram, florally festooned, flanked by Campana urns. Far from being cluttered, each section is in harmony with the whole. Identical with one at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. See 2nd image. Shown with white marble slips to illustrate how this type of fireplace would have been installed.
English 1880s.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
74 3⁄8"
189 cms |
56 1⁄2"
143.5 cms |
7"
17.7 cms |
| Internal |
62 3⁄16"
158 cms |
41 7⁄8"
106.5 cms |
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Stock: 11466
A large period late Georgian pine Fireplace Surround well carved with egg and dart under the plain moulded shelf and around the opening. The frieze centred by a tablet carved with a ribboned fruit swag. Shown fitted with large marble footblocks and grey veined and figured marble ingrounds.
English 1880s.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
81 7⁄8"
208 cms |
63 3⁄8"
161 cms |
8 11⁄16"
22 cms |
| Internal |
66 7⁄8"
170 cms |
50"
127 cms |
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Listed Price: £8,500 Excluding marble ingrounds.(+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 12221
A substantial and impressive late 19th century profusely carved pine and limewood chimneypiece in the Georgian manner of Robert Adam. The frieze, with its exquisitely carved limewood detail, has a central plaque of a classical urn draped with bellflower festoons flanked by further bellflower swags and there are two smaller delicately carved urns on the endblocks set above finely fluted tapering columns surmounted with scrolled Ionic capitals.
English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
80 11⁄16"
205 cms |
61 13⁄16"
157 cms |
11 3⁄16"
28.5 cms |
| Internal |
51 13⁄16"
131.5 cms |
45 1⁄4"
115 cms |
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Listed Price: £15,000 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 11707
One of a near pair. A well carved walnut chimneypiece in the Louis XVI manner,
The moulded shelf over a bow fronted Guilloche carved frieze with outward canted scrolled and reeded jambs with centre rope twist motif and topped by generously carved floral paterae on the endblocks. See also 9391.
French, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
62 3⁄16"
158 cms |
44 1⁄8"
112 cms |
10 3⁄16"
26 cms |
| Internal |
44 1⁄2"
113 cms |
34 5⁄8"
87.8 cms |
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Stock: 10051
A Georgian style carved mahogany chimneypiece in the Adam revival manner,the breakfront shelf over a classical urn carved central tablet flanked by a panelled frieze and endblocks supported on fluted columns with scrolled Ionic columns.Image before revival of polish. English, late19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
78 1⁄4"
199 cms |
59 1⁄4"
150.5 cms |
14"
35.6 cms |
| Internal |
44 7⁄8"
114 cms |
39 7⁄8"
101.3 cms |
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Listed Price: £6,000 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 10983
A 20th century carved pine fireplace in the Georgian manner with applied carved floral swags on the frieze centred by a large shell, scrolled carved corbels with descending bellflower carved detail on the jambs.
English, mid 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
59 13⁄16"
152 cms |
48 7⁄8"
124.3 cms |
7 1⁄4"
18.5 cms |
| Internal |
40 3⁄8"
102.5 cms |
36 3⁄16"
92 cms |
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Stock: 10978
A carved walnut Edwardian fireplace in the Palladian manner with large carved Vitruvian scrolls on the frieze flanking a central floral plaque supported on shaped acanthus carved jambs above large foorblocks.
English, circa 1900.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
61"
155 cms |
51 5⁄8"
131 cms |
11 3⁄8"
29 cms |
| Internal |
42 1⁄8"
107 cms |
40 3⁄16"
102 cms |
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Stock: 7100
A French carved oak antique mantelpiece in the Renaissance manner. The moulded rectangular shelf above a carved frieze with corbels and acorns. The jambs with half round fluted Corinthian columns decorated at the base with foliate carving and resting on plinth foot blocks centred by lion mask paterae to the front and small Romayne panels to the sides.
French, circa 1840.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
91 1⁄4"
232 cms |
73 3⁄8"
186.5 cms |
20 1⁄4"
51.5 cms |
| Internal |
64 13⁄16"
164.5 cms |
64"
162.5 cms |
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Listed Price: £14,900 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 9883
An elegant, understated mahogany Art Deco chimneypiece in the Baroque manner. The shaped mantelpiece and curved frieze above the minimal central leaf and scroll cresting with rounded jambs. Photo before revival of polish.
English, circa 1930.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
69 3⁄8"
176.4 cms |
58 1⁄4"
148.2 cms |
10"
25.5 cms |
| Internal |
42 3⁄16"
107.2 cms |
40 5⁄8"
103 cms |
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Stock: 9529
A tall antique pine fireplace surround and overmantel in the Gothic Revival manner. The overmantel with three pairs of tapering columns with Corinthian capitals alternating with two pairs of arched and recessed niches. The surround with fluted pilaster jambs raised on simple panelled foot blocks.
English, circa 1880.
Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
75"
190.5 cms |
102"
259 cms |
8 1⁄2"
21.5 cms |
| Internal w/out stone |
48"
122 cms |
48"
122 cms |
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Listed Price: £8,600 (+VAT where applicable)
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Stock: 9186
A large and imposing Georgian Adam style Fireplace boldly carved in a rich dark Cuban Mahogany, the colour of rum. The moulded shelf with bead and reel and egg and dart borders, rests above a double fluted frieze centred by a carved tablet of fronds and ribbons. The fireplace opening is framed by an egg and dart border. Removed from a central London mansion block. Photo before revival of polish. English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
69 11⁄16"
177 cms |
60 3⁄16"
153 cms |
8 1⁄2"
21.5 cms |
| Internal |
46 1⁄2"
118 cms |
41 1⁄2"
105.5 cms |
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Stock: 9111
An elegant, quite large chimneypiece in the Georgian manner in richly toned Mahogany. The frieze with Acanthus leaf carved sidepanels either side of the simple centre tablet, dentil undershelf detail, over dog leg opening to receive original pencil statuary marble slips, not shown.
English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
67 1⁄8"
170.5 cms |
58 1⁄4"
148 cms |
9 3⁄16"
23.3 cms |
| Internal |
55 1⁄2"
141 cms |
46 1⁄4"
117.5 cms |
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Stock: 8441
A mid 18th century giltwood Rococo chimneypiece in the manner of Thomas Johnson, the shaped shelf with boldly carved acanthus leaf decoration with leaf scroll carving to the uprights. Marble slips not included.
English, circa 1750.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
65 3⁄8"
166 cms |
52"
132 cms |
6 7⁄8"
17.5 cms |
| Internal |
46 7⁄8"
119 cms |
45 11⁄16"
116 cms |
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Stock: 7682
A Georgian, Adam style fireplace with pine & gesso decoration in the Neoclassical manner.
English, late 18th early 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
64 13⁄16"
164.5 cms |
55 1⁄2"
141 cms |
8"
20.3 cms |
| Internal |
50"
127 cms |
46 13⁄16"
118.8 cms |
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Antique Wooden Mantels
Antique wooden fireplaces have been enjoyed for centuries. From the earliest examples, heavily carved and worn with time, to strikingly simple Arts and Crafts fireplaces, we try to stock a variety of styles and sizes. Antique wooden mantels are a fabulous way of injecting character into a property, or just making a statement. The appeal of wooden mantels is perhaps their diversity. Wood is a fantastic material to carve, capable of being hewn into numerous forms and being used on projects that vary in scale enormously. These Antique wood fireplace mantels encapsulate a moment in history and a period style.
Antique Oak Fireplaces
Antique oak fireplaces conjure images of inviting country houses with a crackling open fire, a place to welcome guests and family members. Antique oak fireplace mantels bring to mind a rustic country interior, with a substantial focal point and an inviting open fire. They have been a focus of domestic life for centuries. Oak fireplaces mantels range from the earliest of inglenooks to the rustic charm of the arts and crafts movement.
Antique Pine Mantels
Pine fireplace mantels were used widely in the 18th century, and perhaps most famously by the renowned Architect Robert Adam. The most highly sought after of antique pine mantels are almost certainly those that can be attributed to Adam, or those which closely resemble his iconic neoclassical designs with gesso decoration. These antique pine fireplaces were often painted so as to resemble their more expensive marble counterparts or to suit the colour scheme of the room. Antique pine mantels are very rarely found in their original paint, so can be left bare, or painted to a desired finish.
Antique Wood Fireplaces
Wooden fire surrounds are easy to look after, as they can be treated much like antique wooden furniture. We often buy chimneypieces that have been worn and damaged with time, and in our workshops we can restore them to their former glory. Antique wood fireplaces are often carved from rare and beautiful woods that are hard to source today. To buy antique is a more environmentally friendly way to source pieces for the home as buying an antique means that new trees don’t need to be felled and you avoid the risk of purchasing unethically sourced wood.
If you would like any advice on what wooden fireplace to select for your home, do not hesitate to contact us.