French Napoleon III Campan Grand Melange Marble Fireplace Surround antique vases 5 Depth 21 Height 46

5 Depth 21 Height 46 inches

repeated Height and raised back stretchers

After a model by Provin Serres

Firebox: Width 38 Height 29

these antique architectural column tops once graced an important entrance

French Napoleon III Campan Grand Melange Marble Fireplace Surround antique vases 5 Depth 21 Height 46DETAILS This beautiful fireplace surround was hand fashioned of a very unusual marble; having rust red and white striation on a mottled olive gray ground known as Campan Grand Mlange. The Campan marble quarries are found in the High Pyrenees in France. A simple mantel with ovolu edge surmounts a straight apron with deeply incised paneling, flanked by incised blocks. The scrolled uprights feature a large acanthus leaf on each knee and griffe de lion