This decorating large french style fireplace mantels shelf is a highly ornate and rare antique stone fireplace surround in the Louis XV Rococo style exuberantly carved throughout with abundant floral and foliate detail.
The fireplace mantels moulded shelf with bead and reel edging rests above an embellished serpentine frieze centred by a stylised palmette cartouche with floral trails flanked by scrolled acanthus corners. Small shell cartouche top tapering panels on the jambs which rest on sturdy footblocks.
Decorating large french style fireplace mantels shelf, antique stone fireplaces and limestone mantels & chimneypieces in a wide range of different period styles, including Victorian, Georgian and Neo-Classical, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo examples.
