Mantels

Arched British carved stone Jacobean style mantel, circa 1860.

English pine and gesso fireplace surround featuring drapery swag frieze, circa 1870.

A French carved igneous rock mantel from Clermont-Ferrand, France. Circa 1760.

Early 20th Century Georgian style English pine keyed mantel adorned by a foliate frieze centered around a rather auricular shell, circa 1900.  

Very finely carved English pine mantel with shell foliate frieze paterae corbels, circa 1900.  

Neoclassical style fluted American carved-pine mantel. Circa 1980.  

French Pine Overmantel with central tile panel scene depicting fruit bowl in splendid Art Nouveau colour palette, circa 1910.  

19th century pine and gesso mantel with jambs flanked by carved nymphs, featuring apron with ivy scrollwork mouldings, circa 1820.

An English mantel piece featuring extremely fine decorative features all entirely carved from pine. The balance of curvaceous vegetal ornament on the classical rectilinear structure bespeaks the ambivalence of the British Regency style. On the apron frieze acanthus coils flank a broad-basined fruit bowl, while above a Greek meander runs, trimmed by acanthus fringe on [...]