LOUIS XVI STYLE BRONZE DORE MOUNTED WHITE CARRARA MARBLE FIRE SURROUND,19th century, with ebonized metal insert. Projecting leaf-tip, molded-edge mantle; over bow wreath and ivy mounted frieze supported by quiver-and-arrow metal mounted fluted columnars with foliate stop-fluting above plinth bases. The whole with neoclassical style, similarly enriched concave insert having removable center panel opening - outside: 45 1/2 in x 70 1/2 in x 17 in; inside: 34 1/2 in x 54 3/4 in. Estimate $12,000-16,000
PROVENANCE; Reputedly acquired from Oak Ridge Estate, Arrington, VA, owned by Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851-1928) who was a tobacco and transport magnate and "prominent as an international art collector".
GOOD OVER-ALL CONDITION ONCE IT IS PROPERLY RE-ASSEMBLED AND RE-INSTALLED.
