Napoleon III Style antique red marble fireplace

Made in the 19th century, this Napoleon III style fireplace was carved in a beautiful red marble veined with white and grey.

It has a simple lintel with a fine, molded shelf and rests on a pair of straight jambs decorated with hand-sculpted modillions of foliage and scrolls. Its jambs are delimited by a foot block at the bottom and by a molded thin piece at the top.

All these hand-sculpted motifs are characteristic of the Napoleon III style fireplaces: sumptuous, exuberant forms, profusion of decorative motifs and eclecticism. These decorative hand-sculpted motifs are inspired in fact by the Antiquity, the Ancien Régime, the Renaissance, the Louis XVI style ...

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