IMPORTANT AND MONUMENTAL LOUIS XVI FIREPLACE MANTEL IN NOBLE WHITE STATUARY CARRARA MARBLE, EXCELLENT CONSERVATION, PROVENANCE LYON, ITALIAN SCULPTURE.
THIS FIREPLACE OF SCULPTURAL ART IS SO “WELL MADE” WITH REGARD TO QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF DECORATIVE LOAD, THAT TO “COMMENT” ON IT, INSTEAD OF DISQUISITION ON THIS OR THAT SCULPTURAL DETAIL OF IT, I FEEL LIKE TELLING YOU THE FOLLOWING:
Looking at this fireplace, the first thing that jumps to my eye and heart is its personality....
And it occurs to me that, perhaps, in the world, there are those who would like to do so precisely by virtue of the fact that said fireplace might represent the personality of the client..
But then I also think that today's humanity seems to be all homogenized...
If in my time (my youth goes back to the years of the late 1960s to end in the late 1970s...) it was possible to understand something about the person you had just seen, say, by the fact that he was wearing an eskimo (if it was green with an ever-present red scarf to go with it, he was one of Lotta Continua, if, on the other hand, the eskimo was white, you could be sure that its owner was a fop pretending to be busy...) or he was wearing a “duffle coat” and then you could bet he was the son of a doctor or a high school professor...
His car (if he had one...) also helped a lot to understand his personality.... You would see a boy in a Dyane 2CV and immediately know that the driver was a hippie idealist... If, on the other hand, he was driving around in a strictly black and always highly polished Golf, he was a young right-wing man (moderate, eh... the hottest guys didn't have a car, they were hot because they were on a hard bill...)... But there was also the “Renault 4 muddy up to the top” type, he was an ecologist of yesteryear, anti-nuclearist par excellence and politically committed to the left as far left as possible...
Today this is no longer the case, today they are all dressed alike... If young people have jeans all pierced that look like they've just been in a big car accident, old people have the same jeans, except they don't have holes in them... The cars are all the same, copied exactly from Japanese comic books... In their cockpits there is always a person with a lost look because he is always looking - the look - at the same cell phone (the latest fashionable..) at the risk of his own life and the lives of others...
Even for fireplaces (I am referring to modern, newly manufactured fireplaces..) the same thing is happening, the vast majority of buyers are not buying a fireplace, but a steel thing that looks like a painting (or a TV set) and like a painting is suspended (with serious torticollis problems for those who, rightly, intend to enjoy the charms of the flame...) at varying heights depending on the taste of the architect or interior designer.
IN CONCLUSION, IF YOU WHO ARE READING ME WISH TO DIVERSIFY YOURSELF FROM THE MASSES, AND MOREOVER TO ENJOY A TRULY ARTISTIC OBJECT, INTRINSICALLY ARTISTIC, VISCERALLY AND UNDOUBTEDLY ARTISTIC, PUT THIS ANTIQUE FIREPLACE IN YOUR ABODE, AND YOUR PERSONALITY WILL COME OUT AT ONCE....
OVERPOWERINGLY.
NOTES: GUARANTEES/DECLARATIONS OF AUTHENTICITY OF OUR ANTIQUE FIREPLACES.
For any fireplace mantel and regardless of its market value, Artis issues a declaration of authenticity on photographic paper, containing:
- Picture of the object in question, size 10 x 10 or corresponding;
- Description of construction materials;
- Estimate of the period;
- Estimate of the style;
- Geographical provenance;
- Artis stamp and signature of the owner.
More than this, we believe, is not possible, at least on our part.
We therefore advise those who have even the slightest doubt to contact the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (offices in Florence and Rome) to have an appraisal carried out (obviously before the purchase, we are very willing, in fact, happy to do so...), an appraisal that we recognize as very valid since said structure (of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage) is a non-commercial and definitely serious structure. This is the contact address: www.opificiodellepietredure.cultura.gov.it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AN IMPORTANT FIREPLACE LIKE THIS BUT YOU ARE AFRAID-AND YOU ARE RIGHT, WITH THE FLOOD OF FORGERS ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! - OF THROWING YOUR MONEY AWAY ON A FAKE? WE WILL RESERVE THIS FIREPLACE MANTEL FOR YOUR BENEFIT WHILE WAITING FOR YOU TO HAVE IT EVALUATED BY AN EXPERT.
