THIS FIREPLACE, PUBLISHED BOTH IN THE “BARGAIN FIREPLACES” SECTION AND IN THE “STONE FIREPLACES” SECTION, IS PART OF A BATCH OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FIREPLACES PURCHASED EN BLOC FROM AN EMILIAN WRECKER WHO COLLECTED AND SAVED THEM DURING HIS WORK IN EMILIA AND LOWER LOMBARDY.
HENCE ITS PARTICULARLY LOW PRICE.
DESCRIPTION OF THIS SPECIFIC MANTEL:
Like all its brethren, this fireplace was carved entirely by hand, without the aid of pantographs or modern mechanical devilry.
Its stone is a Sandstone of excellent quality and hardness.
In this regard, I would like to make you think about this:
Keep in mind that the family of this stone is Sandstone, in essence, sand “pressed” by time, and very often (NOT ALWAYS BUT VERY VERY SO) the Serena stone that you buy nowadays easily “flakes off,” something that does not happen to the stone from which our fireplace was made.
How come, you may ask?
Simple, once upon a time the buyer knew the criteria for choosing the stone, was, in short, able to assess its quality well. In addition to this, the abundance of material was such that one could also afford to choose the best quarrying areas, something that today, whether due to a just “curb” on indiscriminate quarrying, or due to the already considerable exploitation that this stone has experienced, is no longer possible to implement.
Let us hold tightly, therefore, the beautiful quality of the Sendstone that our stonemason has carefully selected and worked, it is a small and soon to be unrepeatable Handicraft Heritage.
THE DECORATION THAT APPEARS A EACH “BLOCK” OF THIS FIREPLACE LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE THE CELTIC LEGHIST ROSE (WHICH HAS SIX PETALS, THOUGH)..
OUR ROSE, LESS POLITICIZED THAN THE CELTIC, HAS FOUR, OF PETALS, AND THEY REPRESENT, ACCORDING TO A SIGNIFICATION THAT IS LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME, AIR, WATER, FIRE AND EARTH, THAT IS, THE ELEMENTS INDISPENSABLE TO OUR LIFE...
