LOUIS XVI STYLE MARBLE FIREPLACE SURROUND

French, mid-to-late nineteenth century

An antique Louis XVI-style fireplace surround, the generously shaped and moulded shelf above bow-front fluted frieze with foliate carved central plaque and foliate paterae to each flank, all raised on stop-fluted scroll jambs and block feet, in superb quality lightly veined Statuary Marble.

£16,500

AW001

  • Between the years 1853 and 1870, Baron Georges Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine, oversaw grand and ambitious building projects that transformed Paris and saw swathes of smart residential blocks built. Every apartment had to have a fireplace. This, and other similarly ambitious development schemes is the reason for such a proliferation of nineteenth-century French cheminées in earlier Louis XV and XVI styles such as this smart example.

  • Width 62” / 157.5cm

    Height 46” / 117cm

    Depth 15” / 138cm

    Opening height 35” / 89cm

    Opening width 41” / 104cm

    Width at base 60¾” / 154.2cm