Regency period marble fireplace mantel

A new version of this perennially popular Regency design. Carved in Statuary marble with long elegant tapering jambs terminating in stiff leaf acanthus corner blocks, fielded frieze panel surmounted by a reeded mantel shelf.

The Regency period saw a more austere approach to the use of classical ornament that had previously received such widespread and unfettered interpretation by Robert Adam and his followers during the 18th century.

The proportation of the fireplace changed as the height became lower, reflecting the replacement of the corniced shelf with a simpler rectilinear shelf enabling the dandies of the priord to see themselves in mirrors placed over the fireplace.