What are antique mantel ornaments?

These pieces comprise decorative objects designed for display on fireplace ledges, ranging from ceramic Staffordshire dogs to bronze sculptures and glass lustres. They reflect aesthetic trends spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

How were mantel ornaments used?

Homeowners placed these items on mantelpieces to decorate principal rooms, often arranging them symmetrically around a central clock or mirror. Some ceramic variants, such as spill vases, served the practical purpose of holding tapers for lighting hearth fires.

How do I identify Victorian pieces?

Victorian examples frequently include Staffordshire pottery figures of animals or historical portraits, alongside cut-glass lustres with hanging prisms. Material choices like earthenware with lead glaze or cast bronze on marble bases point towards nineteenth-century manufacturing methods.

What defines Art Deco ornaments?

Art Deco mantel pieces typically feature streamlined figurative dancers, animal sculptures, and materials such as spelter or patinated bronze dating to around nineteen-thirty. The styling departs from nineteenth-century ornamentation in favour of dynamic modern lines.

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These antique mantel ornaments range from earthenware Staffordshire dogs to French bronze figures, selected to sit upon a fireplace surround.

A Pair of Spode Porcelain Spill Vases Decorated in Pattern 1726 C.1815-1820

19th century

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A Pair of Spode Porcelain Spill Vases Decorated in Pattern 1726 C.1815-1820

From Fine Antique English Porcelain

£1,250

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19th century

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19th Century Grand Tour Bronze of Michelangelo's Lorenzo De'medici C.1840

From Webberley Antiques

£450

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Pair of Antique Staffordshire Flat Back Figures on Horseback

19th century

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Pair of Antique Staffordshire Flat Back Figures on Horseback

From London City Antiques

£425

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19th century

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Large Pair of Antique 19th Century Staffordshire Deer Spill Vases

From Unique Antiques by Emma Jade

£375

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Art Deco Original Josef Lorenzl Female Figurative Dancer, Unsigned , C1930

1920 - 1940

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Art Deco Original Josef Lorenzl Female Figurative Dancer, Unsigned , C1930

From Art Deco World

£895

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A Late 18th-19thc French Gilt Bronze-ormolu Putto Finial Ornament Mount 24cm

19th century

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A Late 18th-19thc French Gilt Bronze-ormolu Putto Finial Ornament Mount 24cm

From Gilt and Gesso

£350

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Monumental Pair of Portasanta and Rosso Antico Marble Obelisks, Italian Early 20th Century

1900 - 1920

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Monumental Pair of Portasanta and Rosso Antico Marble Obelisks, Italian Early 20th Century

From Loveday Antiques

£11,500

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19th century

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Antique Marble Eagle Statue in Veined Carrara Marble, 19th Century

From Knight Fine Antiques and Collectables

£1,200

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Pair of Regency Gilt Bronze and Glass Cornucopias

19th century

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Pair of Regency Gilt Bronze and Glass Cornucopias

From Mark Jones Antiques

£850

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Table Mantle Lustre

From The Antique Shop

£540

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Staffordshire potters immortalised nineteenth-century current affairs by issuing portrait figures of contemporary evangelists Moody and Sankey alongside royalty.

1900 - 1920

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Early 20th Century Bronze Horse

From Heydays Antiques

£375

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19th century

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19th Century French Figural Bronze, the Figure Attributed to Pierre-augustin Caron De Beaumarchais.

From Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria

£550

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A Superb and Increasingly Rare Original Matched Pair of Victorian Staffordshire Seated Whippet Dogs, Dating to Circa 1875.

19th century

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A Superb and Increasingly Rare Original Matched Pair of Victorian Staffordshire Seated Whippet Dogs, Dating to Circa 1875.

From Oliver Sargent Antiques

£395

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ceramics

Pair of Victorian Green Glass Table Lustres

19th century

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Pair of Victorian Green Glass Table Lustres

From Church Street Antiques & Interiors

£450

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Art Deco Sculpture of Golden Pheasants C.1930

1920 - 1940

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Art Deco Sculpture of Golden Pheasants C.1930

From Collinge Antiques

£495

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Late 19th C French Bronze Figure of a Victorious Roman Soldier by Émile Louis Picault (1833–1915)

19th century

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Late 19th C French Bronze Figure of a Victorious Roman Soldier by Émile Louis Picault (1833–1915)

From Robert Belcher Antiques

£1,695

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Antique Mantel Ornaments

A Pair of Spode Porcelain Spill Vases Decorated in Pattern 1726 C.1815-1820

19th Century Grand Tour Bronze of Michelangelo's Lorenzo De'medici C.1840

Pair of Antique Staffordshire Flat Back Figures on Horseback

Large Pair of Antique 19th Century Staffordshire Deer Spill Vases

Art Deco Original Josef Lorenzl Female Figurative Dancer, Unsigned , C1930

A Late 18th-19thc French Gilt Bronze-ormolu Putto Finial Ornament Mount 24cm

Monumental Pair of Portasanta and Rosso Antico Marble Obelisks, Italian Early 20th Century

Antique Marble Eagle Statue in Veined Carrara Marble, 19th Century

Pair of Regency Gilt Bronze and Glass Cornucopias

Antique Table Mantle Lustre

Early 20th Century Bronze Horse

19th Century French Figural Bronze, the Figure Attributed to Pierre-augustin Caron De Beaumarchais.

A Superb and Increasingly Rare Original Matched Pair of Victorian Staffordshire Seated Whippet Dogs, Dating to Circa 1875.

Pair of Victorian Green Glass Table Lustres

Art Deco Sculpture of Golden Pheasants C.1930

Late 19th C French Bronze Figure of a Victorious Roman Soldier by Émile Louis Picault (1833–1915)

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