Stock No: 10730

An extraordinary and large period Spanish chimneypiece in the Mannerist manner. It is intensively carved in polished stained and waxed pine of canted breakfront form, the mantle with raised geometrically carved platform centred by a scrolled heraldic shield emblazoned on the right side with the Santiago Di Compostela Cross, topped by a baronial coronet, the frieze with a pair of winged dragons carved in deep relief over an arched scroll-carved aperture with an acanthus-carved 'keystone' and flanked by figural-carved jambs, the whole embraced by canted mask-carved corbels above winged, hoofed grotesque creatures.The interior insert grate is an exact replica if the insert in our sold stock no 4292 a Spanish Art Modernista mosaic & hammered wrought iron fireplace by Domenic y Montaner of Barcelona.
Spanish,16th century. Known Provenance.

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