Arched Mantel with Frieze (circa 1865 to 1880)
 | Mantels / Italianate mantels / Arched mantels / Arched mantels with frieze These arched mantels include a frieze, often narrow, over the arch. Some of these mantels have full-height jambs rising to the level of the shelf, while others have the frieze extending above the jambs. Arched mantels with a frieze mostly had the simple rectangular shelf A (60%, shown here), with the remainder divided equally between shelf B (see below) and shelf E. These mantels were the most likely to appear with overmantels; the example shown below with a merlon overmantel appears in the Barber & Henderson catalog of 1878: 
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Millwork catalog references: Penrhyn (1869) page 33, 34, 35 ; Cummings (1873) page 51 ; Bradley & Currier (1877) page 21, 24,25, 26 (2), 36 ; Barber & Henderson (1878) page 28, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37 ; Palmer, Fuller & Co. (1879) page 80 ; Nichols (1880) page 3, 5 (2), 8, 12, 16, 25 ; Charles Williams' Sons (1880) page 13, 40, K, L ; Bradley & Currier (1880) page 38C ; | |