Monumental Limestone Chimneypiece with Carved Mythological Frieze

This is the most powerful piece in the archive. A frieze of winged beasts and interlacing foliage is cut so deeply into the lintel that the figures almost stand free of the stone, and the jambs beneath it are massive, plain and completely unapologetic. Set into a rough coursed stone wall and lit from within the firebox, the carving throws the kind of shadow that only centuries of real hearth soot and weathering can teach a surface to throw. Ancient Surfaces offers this antique limestone chimneypiece for a great hall, a castle room or a project that wants one genuinely monumental object.