LOUIS XVI "CANNELURE” FIREPLACE MANTEL IN BEAUTIFUL, HOMOGENEOUS QUALITY YELLOW “FIORITO" MARBLE.
IF IT IS ALREADY QUITE RARE TO COME ACROSS ANY FIREPLACE IN ITALIAN YELLOW “FIORITO” MARBLE, IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ONE IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE.. DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY FIREPLACES IN THIS STYLE WERE MOSTLY MANUFACTURED IN CARRARA WHITE, SEVERAL TIMES I HAVE FOUND MYSELF PONDERING THIS FACT, NEVER HAVE I BEEN ABLE TO GIVE MYSELF A CERTAIN AND HISTORICALLY ACCEPTABLE ANSWER.
PROBABLY, THE CLEAN, MINIMALIST LINES OF THIS FIREPLACE MANTEL, IN THE IMAGINATION OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCULPTOR AND CLIENT, WERE TO BE CLOTHED IN A MARBLE OF EQUALLY “CLEAN” COLOR, WHO KNOWS...
HERE WE ARE DEALING WITH A FIREPLACE IN PERFECT CONDITION, OF 1860-80 CONSTRUCTION, FROM A PALACE IN PARIS.
