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Please browse these pages of items under all the many categories summarised here in sequence of restoration and photography . The criteria for listing in Premier are quality of conception , execution and materials used , rarity , functionality and sheer decorative appeal.
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10873 Stock: 10873
A Period Irish Georgian brass register grate with rope twist decoration, and urn finials. Image before reinstatement of interior. Irish circa 1780.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 33.5"
85 External Width in centimeters		 36.2"
92 External Height in centimeters		 9.1"
23 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 21.5"
54.6 Internal Width in centimeters		 24.0"
61 Internal Height in centimeters

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11376 Stock: 11376
A late 18th century Neo Classical Georgian fireplace in statuary andSpanish Brocatelle marble The breakfronted shelf over a frieze with inlaid brocatelle marble fluting, interspersed by delicate circular fluted paterae in statuary marble, flanked by florally carved endblocks,on tapering fluted jambs with wide brocatelle ingrounds. Circa 1780. Known provenance.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 69.3"
176 External Width in centimeters		 58.7"
149 External Height in centimeters		 6.0"
15.3 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 41.3"
104.8 Internal Width in centimeters		 42.1"
107 Internal Height in centimeters

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11354 Stock: 11354
11354. An 18th century, possibly much earlier, Gros and Petit Point needlepoint tapestry in the Flemish Medieval style, of a lady and courtier flanked by a Unicorn and Lion bearing standards, in the Millefleur tradition of the original, from which it is inspired. The original collection, known as " The Lady and the Unicorn " is a series depicting the six senses, this one representing " Hearing ", are displayed in the Musee de Cluny in Paris. Preliminary image.


COMMENTS : Needlepoint tapestry dates from Ancient Egypt, 1600 BC, and was practised by 15th century Flemish craftsmen in this case from designs for the French Court. In this tapestry the lady plays a portative organ on top of a table covered with a Turkish rug. Her maidservant stands to the opposite side and operates the bellows. The lion and unicorn once again frame the scene holding up the pennants. Just as on all the other original tapestries, the unicorn is to the lady's left and the lion to her right - a common denominator to all the tapestries. In our example the positions are reversed. The Lady and the Unicorn: "Hearing" one of the famous series of Hearing, Smell, Sight, Taste, Touch...and Desire. Research continues.
  Width
 Height
55.5"
141 Width in centimeters		 81.1"
206 Height in centimeters

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4691 Stock: 4691
4691. A RARE AND IMPORTANT LARGE GEORGE III SERPENTINE DOUBLE FRONTED SUMMER GRATE : This antique firebasket is from a design by Robert Adam, and probably made by Henry Jackson of nearby Saffron Hill in the late 18th early 19th century...see his trade card below. An identical one is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington and there are also two in Spencer House, St. James's. It is in bright cut steel decorated with finials and fine etched spandrels and chamfered etched legs. Being a Summer Grate... the whole expensively decorated magnificent front lifts off to reveal a more simply etched front when a fire is lit, and replaced afterwards.
English, Circa 1840.

SCALE: V. Large
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 43.0"
109.2 External Width in centimeters		 38.0"
96.5 External Height in centimeters		 18.0"
45.7 External Depth in centimeters

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9922 Stock: 9922
9922. AN IMPOSINGLY LARGE CHIMNEYPIECE AND OVERMANTEL carved in oak in the Tudor / Jacobean Renaissance manner. Extremely tall and with intriguing imagery and motifs at the different levels which include a series of four carved owls interspersed with scallop shells and Tudor roses carved into the lower frieze. The owls frequently found in armorial bearings & associated with wisdom. The roses and shells were symbols or badges for Pilgrims to the East. The frieze is supported on two female Caryatids with abundant fruit headress and strapwork format below. The overmantel is composed of three typical Jacobean Panels with carved central Paterae, seperated by four female caryatids and lion masks, surmounted by the top fanned panels.These features bear a great resemblance to the chimneypiece and panelling in the Great Hall at Castle Ashby, see images and more details below.

CONNECTIONS : The Chimneypiece and panelling in the Great Hall in Castle Ashby, Marquis of Northampton, have similar details and features and could have been the inspiration for 9922 made in the 19th century and later, integrating earlier 17th century elements. That one was formerly in the Canonbury Tower, Islington on the Northampton's estate..which formerly belonged to the Spencer family of Diana renown, also a hunting lodge for Henry XVIII. The Tower was from the 1950's until recently the Tower Theater..now rebuilding on the recently revealed remains of Shakespeares original Curtain Theater round the corner from Westland's.

Built in 1509 as a country retreat for the Prior of St Bartholemew, Canonbury was acquired in 1590 by Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London 1594-1595.His daughter eloped with a scion of the Compton family, latterley the Earls of Northampton who inherited the Tower when Spenser died. Sir John made many improvements, the fine panelling of the Spencer and Compton Oak Rooms are his work.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 109.4"
278 External Width in centimeters		 146.1"
371 External Height in centimeters		 12.0"
30.5 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 80.7"
205 Internal Width in centimeters		 70.1"
178 Internal Height in centimeters

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9172 Stock: 9172
9172. A George III style carved white statuary marble Chimneypiece of the 18th century incorporating some later elements. The moulded inverted breakfront shelf above a frieze centred by a rectangular tablet carved with a roundel of Cupid holding a bow and two winged putti attendants holding a quiver of arrows, a pair of love birds to the foreground, suspended from ribbon tied drapery, flanked by tied sheaves of wheat, the side blocks carved with flowers, the jambs with outset columns with Ionic capitals on block feet. English 18th century and later.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
Exerior 83.5"
212 Exerior Width in centimeters		 64.6"
164 Exerior Height in centimeters		 10.2"
26 Exerior Depth in centimeters
Interior 51.2"
130 Interior Width in centimeters		 47.2"
120 Interior Height in centimeters

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4688 Stock: 4688
A large and imposing ormolou, blue glass and crystal eight branch chandelier in the Neoclassical Russian manner.
20th century.
  DIAMETER
 HEIGHT
41.0"
104.1 DIAMETER in centimeters		 57.8"
146.7 HEIGHT in centimeters

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4582 Stock: 4582
A large Russian style eight branch chandelier in the late eighteenth century Empire Neo Classical manner with fine ormolou, green glass and crystal branches, pendants and drops. 20th century.
  Diameter
 Height
39.0"
99.1 Diameter in centimeters		 56.0"
142.2 Height in centimeters

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4418 Stock: 4418
4418. A very large cast iron log grate in the Baroque manner e with a masive shell back plate , serpeentine bars fronted by large baluster andirons with lion masks.
Early 19th century, circa 1820,contemporary replica available.

SCALE: V. Large
  Width
 Height
 Depth
51.5"
130.8 Width in centimeters		 38.5"
97.8 Height in centimeters		 23.0"
58.4 Depth in centimeters

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11268 Stock: 11268
THE MOGULS BED : A spectacular and rare Portuguese Emperor sized carved mahogany bed. The head and the foot are same height, and the carved decoration on each is a large central stylised gadrooned urn flanked by two smaller all festooned with Bellflowers, all carved both sides with tall spindles either side of each of the smaller. There are scrolled and leaf carved curved top bars supporting these central panels with carved lattice work centrally above. The cabriole legs terminate in lion paw ball feet. Made from copper hued Honuduras mahogany…impressive and v big. Preliminary images prior to revival of polish.It is held together by four massive threaded bolts ..key provided. Circa 1890.
  Width
 Length
External 78.7"
200 External Width in centimeters		 91.7"
233 External Length in centimeters
Internal 71.5"
181.5 Internal Width in centimeters		 81.5"
207 Internal Length in centimeters

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11266 Stock: 11266
11266. A PERIOD LATE GEORGIAN CHIMNEYPIECE IN THE GREEK / ETRUSCAN REVIVAL manner in white Statuary and Sienna marble with polychrome Scagliola inlaid decoration inspired by designs from Greek / Etruscan Antiquity. The white marble breakfronted shelf over an inlaid frieze, the center tablet showing two robed coiffed maidens holding Bellflower swags linked to an urn on a pedestal, furtehr swags and urns either side. There is a neat ropetwist carved detail around the opening behind the yellow Sienna marble ingrounds with which the jambs are panelled also the scalloped fluted shoulders. Cleaning and polishing in progress.Irish late 18th century.

PROVENANCE : The Scagliola inlay denotes its probable Irish / Italian original provenance, the manufacture being in the manner of Pietro Bossi, an Italian Stuccodore resident in Dublin in the 18th century. But it was recently removed from an 18th century Georgian Town House near the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 55.1"
140 External Width in centimeters		 48.8"
124 External Height in centimeters		 5.9"
15 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 36.6"
93 Internal Width in centimeters		 33.1"
84 Internal Height in centimeters

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11129 Stock: 11129
BELLE CHEMINEE DE L'EPOQUE 18eme, D'UN MANOIR A LA CAMPAGNE FRANCAISE: A Period oak fireplace mantel in the early Louis XV Rococo manner. The serpentine shelf supported on a panelled frieze centered by a finely carved high relief floral scrolled shell Cartouche, with further floral decoration carved from the solid on the prominently scrolled console jambs.Quite rare, tall of good proportions with restorations. From a substantial country property, petite Chateau ou Manoir. French, early 18th century.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 71.7"
182 External Width in centimeters		 47.6"
121 External Height in centimeters		 12.2"
31 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 51.2"
130 Internal Width in centimeters		 39.4"
100 Internal Height in centimeters

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10731 Stock: 10731
A CARVED WHITE STATUARY MARBLE FIGURE OF A PUTTI in the Baroque manner, supporting a carved plinth on his head, with knotted lower robe , standing on a moulded pedestal. Italian 19th century.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
9.4"
24 Width in centimeters		 34.4"
87.5 Height in centimeters		 7.1"
18 Depth in centimeters

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9459 SOLD Stock: 9459
AN IMPRESSIVE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE / BAROQUE CARVED CHIMNEYPIECE in Alabaster , Pavonazato and Rosso marble. The breakfronted shaped Pavonazato Marble shelf over the alabaster undershelf carved with lambs tongue , then a dentille undershelf over the high relief carved heads of six winged putti interspersed with starfish...symbol of regeneration , flanked by square framed endblocks containing pierced floral paterae. All supported on Rosso marble egg and dart capitaled Tuscan columns and pilasters the latter with inset ivory alabaster panels delicately carved in high relief with Arabesque motifs , the columns in darker alabaster carved in low relief with Palmettes and other floral decoration, seated on panelled Pavonazato marble plinth blocks. Italian , early 18th Century, with later restorations.

PROVENANCE : Known.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 90.6"
230 External Width in centimeters		 60.2"
153 External Height in centimeters		 14.2"
36 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 38.8"
98.5 Internal Width in centimeters		 44.0"
111.8 Internal Height in centimeters

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4065 Stock: 4065
A handsome fine quality Antique English late Georgian mahogany cylinder bureau. A somewhat metamorphic furniture in its intriguing opening action whereby the pulling out of the writing slide mechanically and silently activates the raising of the cylinder top revealing the tooled green leather lining. With three drawers beneath the slide and multiple pigeon holes in the interior and the two door cupboard above
Early 19th century, circa 1800.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
48.5"
123.2 Width in centimeters		 55.7"
141.6 Height in centimeters		 24.0"
61 Depth in centimeters

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11198 Stock: 11198
A RARE ITALIAN ANTIQUE FIREPLACE MANTEL IN WHITE STATUARY MARBLE. This is an original early period chimneypiece elegantly proportioned and carved from the solid in three elements in the Baroque manner of the Lombardy region of Italy.The shelf is carved with a neat moulding from a single block integral with the delicately panelled frieze which is centered with a typical asymmetric central stylised floral cartouche, flanked by further smaller floral motifs on the upper jamb panels, also carved from the solid. Italian, late 17th, early 18th century.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 65.7"
167 External Width in centimeters		 48.4"
123 External Height in centimeters		 6.9"
17.5 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 43.5"
110.5 Internal Width in centimeters		 41.1"
104.5 Internal Height in centimeters

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6383 Stock: 6383
6383. AN EXTREMELY LARGE AND RARE INGLENOOK CHIMNEYPIECE OF THE TUD0R RENAISSANCE PERIOD.The richly carved limestone detail on the top frieze depicting mythic deities, oak leaves and birds interspersed with drapes and floral decoration. A Wood Nymph or Dryad is carved on the left and a Dolphin on the right spandrel. Bead and reel, Bellflower and lambs tongue decoration are carved around the perimeters. The very broad arch has three central Joggled Voussoirs or keystones.
PROVENANCE : Removed from a 19th century hostelry in North London, original provenance not known, but probably from the Great Hall.....rather than the kitchen....see the Jack and the Beanstalk one at Hampton Court Palace below...of a large Tudor / Jacobean Manor House or Priory.br> English circa 1600.

SCALE : Immense.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 144.5"
367 External Width in centimeters		 112.2"
285 External Height in centimeters		 28.0"
71 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 118.1"
300 Internal Width in centimeters		 77.2"
196.2 Internal Height in centimeters

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10565 Stock: 10565
10565. PERIOD ART NOUVEAU...TO MODERN BULGARI...ONE OF A SET OF 6 SUBSTANTIAL AND ORIGINAL ART NOUVEAU BRONZE CHANDELIERS..8 light and triple center cluster,shown with new light bulbs.Shades possible but originally without. English 1911.

PROVENANCE : The Knightsbridge Palace Hotel, built 1911 , remodelled in 1937 as The Normandie Hotel , when these 6 chandeliers were stored in the basement. The hotel is again being remodelled / rebuilt to be the 1st BULGARI HOTEL in London.
  Diameter
 Height
36.6"
93 Diameter in centimeters		 51.2"
130 Height in centimeters

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6472 Stock: 6472
6472..... A SUITE OF 5 VERY LARGE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MANNER. Featuring Jesus and the Four Home Saints....St George of England , St Andrew of Scotland , St David of Wales and St Patrick of Ireland. From the William Meikle Studio , dated around 1921.More details available.
  Tallest Height
 Each Width
131.9"
335 Tallest Height in centimeters		 29.9"
76 Each Width in centimeters

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6469 Stock: 6469
6469. A fine large pair of period English Regency-Gothic Giltwood faceted conical Wall Brackets, richly gilded giltwood, with carved tracery decoration . English early 19th century.

PROVENANCE : Ven House in Somerset, an early 18th Century listed grand country house which is currently owned by Jasper Conran.
  Width
 Height
25.2"
64 Width in centimeters		 39.4"
100 Height in centimeters

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11061 Stock: 11061
11061: ONE OF A RARE PAIR of period English Regency chimneypieces in the Egyptian Revival manner, in pure white Statuary marble. The jambs are tapered descending from concave florally decorated capitals. Circa 1815.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 66.9"
170 External Width in centimeters		 48.6"
123.5 External Height in centimeters		 12.2"
31 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 37.0"
94 Internal Width in centimeters		 39.6"
100.5 Internal Height in centimeters

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4227 SOLD Stock: 4227
4227. A VERY GRAND WALL FOUNTAIN IN THE RENAISSANCE -BAROQUE MANNER...Large and imposing carved in Carrara marble, the water spouts from the lions mouth set into the fanned niche , down into the large gadrooned bowl which is supported on triple scrolls.Now fully restored and polished, see lower images.
Italian , 17th century Baroque elements incorporated into later rebuild.
  WIDTH
 HEIGHT
 DEPTH
69.0"
175.3 WIDTH in centimeters		 104.0"
264.2 HEIGHT in centimeters		 28.5"
72.5 DEPTH in centimeters

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10229 Stock: 10229
10229 : An rare carved pine Georgian chimneypiece with decoration in the Chinese manner. English 18th century.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 58.3"
148 External Width in centimeters		 52.0"
132 External Height in centimeters		 7.0"
17.8 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 39.4"
100 Internal Width in centimeters		 41.5"
105.5 Internal Height in centimeters

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10730 SOLD Stock: 10730
10730. AN EXTRAORDINARY AND LARGE PERIOD SPANISH CHIMNEYPIECE IN THE MANNERIST STYLE : It is intensively carved in polished stained and waxed Pine ....of canted breakfront form, the mantle with raised geometrically carved platform centred by a scrolled heraldic shield , emblazoned on the right side with the Santiago Di Compostela Cross , topped by a Baronial Coronet, the frieze with a pair of winged Dragons carved in deep relief over an arched scroll-carved aperture with an acanthus-carved 'keystone' and flanked by figural-carved jambs, the whole embraced by canted mask-carved corbels above winged, hoofed grotesque creatures.The interior an exact replica made in our workshops of that of our sold stock no 4292, Spanish Art Modernista mosaic and hammered wrought iron by Domenic y Montaner of Barcelona. Spanish ,16th century.

Known Provenance.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
72.8"
185 Width in centimeters		 68.1"
173 Height in centimeters		 24.8"
63 Depth in centimeters
29.5"
75 Width in centimeters		 38.2"
97 Height in centimeters

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11011 SOLD Stock: 11011
11011: A PRESTIGIOUS AND EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN NEO-CLASSICAL CHIMNEYPIECE grandly carved in Statuary marble, with superbly modelled Female Caryatids both facing outwards with hands to head and breast either side of this richly adorned antique fireplace mantel and supporting a substantial breakfronted frieze and shelf which is centered with a raised central tablet and flanked by ribboned strands of graduated pearls and oval scrolled Stemma on the endblockings . Circa 1860.

SCALE : Substantial.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 81.9"
208 External Width in centimeters		 57.9"
147 External Height in centimeters		 17.3"
44 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 48.4"
123 Internal Width in centimeters		 41.7"
106 Internal Height in centimeters

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10909 Stock: 10909
10909 : AN ORIGINAL ROYAL MINT PORTCULLIS WROUGHT IRON WINDOW GRILL. The original Royal mint...dating from the 14th century..which was housed within the walls of the Tower of London was moved in 1810 across the square at Tower Hill to the later location built by the architect Sir Robert Smirke, 1781-1867...on the site of a Cistercian Monastery. This and other grills were removed during alterations to the Mint in the 1960's..several were installed at ground level in the Old Bailey Courts of Justice rebuilt section...also in the 1960's..

Another circular one is our stock no 10910. Superb examples of the traditional Smithy's expertise these were probably made by Matthew Boulton who also made the very early thunderous steam presses for minting the coins. See images below showing an interior view of the Mint foundry

THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL MINT extends over a thousand years traced to moneyers of Anglo-Saxon London, then a presence within the walls of the Tower itself thence to the 1810 building at Tower Hill,
  Width
 Height
59.8"
152 Width in centimeters		 59.3"
150.5 Height in centimeters

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10667 Stock: 10667
10667. A GRAND AND IMPOSING MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE IN THE PALLADIAN MANNER. The substantial breakfronted white Statuary marble shelf over a barrel frieze in Verde Antico inlaid with a Statuary and Sienna marble Guilloche pattern centered and flanked by three high relief carved Roman Lion masks , again in Sienna marble ...supported on massive " C " scrolled brackets descending to strapwork with stylised Palmette decorated jambs. Italian , late 19th century.

SCALE : Large.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 85.8"
218 External Width in centimeters		 60.2"
153 External Height in centimeters		 15.0"
38.1 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 53.1"
135 Internal Width in centimeters		 42.1"
107 Internal Height in centimeters

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10837 Stock: 10837
10837. A SPLENDID MASSIVE INGLENOOK CHIMNEYPIECE IN THE VENETIAN MANNER , FROM THE 16TH CENTURY HOUSE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH IN IRELAND : A very large and dramatically carved oak 19th century Chimneypiece in the 16th century Venetian Renaissance manner. The massive structure stands on full length oblong white veined Rouge de Rance red marble footblocks with substantial moulded ingrounds in the same marble above a hearth inlaid with St Annes marble panels. The overall concept and decoration is very much in the tradition of the architecture and Caminos to be found in the Palazzo Ducale in St Marks Square in Venice and somewhat in the manner of a design by Giulio Romano. See images below. Italian, mid 19th century.

INTRIGUING PROVENANCE : Ashley Manor, Myrtle Grove,County Waterford in the Irish Republic, until recently a Convent… The property is the original 15th century preferred comfortable windowed house lived in by Sir Walter Raleigh and is owned by Lord Swarsbrick near the Duke of Devonshires estate..Lismore castle which was Raleighs Official residence being 10 miles away. Raleigh, who founded the first English colony at Roanoake in Virginia brought the potato back and it was first planted here, also the fabled instance when a servant threw a jug of water over him when he was smoking happened in Ashley Manor.

SCALE :Massive ..Edificial... Enorme...Wuchtig.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 107.3"
272.6 External Width in centimeters		 117.5"
298.5 External Height in centimeters		 32.7"
83 External Depth in centimeters
Internal,marble. 55.9"
142 Internal,marble. Width in centimeters		 50.8"
129 Internal,marble. Height in centimeters

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10853 SOLD Stock: 10853
10853. A late Georgian early Regency Chimneypiece in statuary marble with Kilkenny black fossil marble ingrounds from a house near Regents Park. English early 19th century.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 62.6"
159 External Width in centimeters		 49.8"
126.5 External Height in centimeters		 9.4"
24 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 42.1"
107 Internal Width in centimeters		 40.2"
102 Internal Height in centimeters

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10006 SOLD Stock: 10006
10006. A period George III carved pine chimneypiece in the manner of Robert Adam. The breakfront shelf over a large central plaque with trophys ...quiver and flaming torch, flanked by floral decoration on the side and jamb panels and with urn endblocks. Circa 1780.
  Width
 Height
 Depth
External 74.2"
188.5 External Width in centimeters		 59.3"
150.6 External Height in centimeters		 8.3"
21 External Depth in centimeters
Internal 55.1"
139.9 Internal Width in centimeters		 46.9"
119 Internal Height in centimeters

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