French Louis XVI Style Marble Fireplace Surround, 1850s

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An antique Louis XVI-style fireplace surround, the generously shaped and moulded shelf above bow-front fluted frieze with foliate carved central … Read more 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. French c.1850s

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.

Measurements

Width 62” / 157.5cm

Height 46” / 117cm

Depth 15” / 138cm

Opening height 35” / 89cm

Opening width 41” / 104cm

Width at base 60¾” / 154.2cm See less