PARISIAN “ POMPADOUR PLAT” MANTELPIECE*** IN WHITE CARRARA MARBLE, EXCELLENT CONDITION, LATE 19TH CENTURY AND A VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL IN MY OPINION, IN A WIDTH (119 CM) AMONG THE MOST SUITABLE FOR OUR INCREASINGLY SMALL APARTMENTS.
If you who are reading me are a “Genovese to the bitter end,” well, then I'll break out the “Piattino” card.
This nickname (more affectionate than derogatory) is used by insiders to refer to the “Pompadour plat,” the most built Louis XV-style fireplace in the 19th century and also among the least expensive.
We can encounter it in many apartment or hotel rooms in Paris and, given the considerable collection of it, unless you are looking for special colors, you can even buy it at the offensive (“offensive” to the architect who designed our fireplace mantel and the sculptor who gave birth to it) figure you can read above these lines..
Yet it is pretty, eye-catching, and in this case, also quite large in proportion to the average of its brethren and very just right for our current dwellings.
