We have now largely MANUALLY stripped it, and on its surfaces we have deliberately left some areas with these poetic paintings. Obviously before delivery and during restoration we will complete the paint stripping in all its parts.
In order for 100% of these traces to be eliminated, a “beautiful” (so to speak) SANDBLASTING would be needed, but this operation, my lords, WE WILL NEVER DO IT.
RATHER WE GIVE UP THE SALE.
In any case, don't ask me, I might (depending on the moon that day) treat you badly and send you to buy fireplaces from Aiazzone.
But why did the ancients paint (a practice in vogue until about 1920-30) stone fireplaces!!! Maybe for aesthetic issues?! Macché. You should know (but many of you already know this..) that in ancient times a “simple” flu could claim millions of victims (think of the “Spanish flu,” which raged in Europe from 1917 to 1920 making about 20 million victims..), and since our ancestors thought that the “microbe” of these plagues lurked in the pores of the stone, here it is that by painting the surfaces of their stone fireplace, our grandparents thought to disinfect it..
In Italy they mostly used lime (of course also dispensed on the walls of the dwelling), in France, on the other hand and considering themselves more elegant than us, they preferred to use paints of various colors... Red, brown, blue, black and blue were the layers we found under the last one, a shiny “off-white...”
ANTIQUE LOUIS XVI FIREPLACE (WHICH MEANS ITS DATE OF BIRTH IS IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) IN PIERRE DORE' DU BEAUJOLAIS, GOOD OVERALL PRESERVATION (ONLY A RESTORATION TO THE UPPER BEAM WILL BE NEEDED, A RESTORATION THAT WILL BE CARRIED OUT WITHOUT REPLACEMENT OF STONE PARTS), PROVENANCE PROVENCE (CÔTE D'AZUR).
