GEORGIAN CARRARA MARBLE FLUTED FIREPLACE SURROUND

English, c.1830

A handsome late Georgian or Regency period fireplace surround carved in delicate and lightly veined pencil veined Statuary marble, its shelf with bead mould above frieze and jambs composed of crisply executed fluted panels, the corner blocks with bull’s eye roundel in square frames.

£7,500

AW019

  • A fireplace of simple rectilinear form which benefits from delicate use of shadow as means of embellishment; the fluted pilaster jambs, the deep carved applied convex roundels set within the corner-block panels and the delicately reeded shelf with its unusual mould to the top surface.

  • Width 67¾” / 172cm  

    Height 47¼” / 120cm  

    Depth 11⅝” / 29.5cm  

    Opening height 38½” / 98cm 

    Opening width 41” / 104cm  

    Width at base