Decorative Antiques & Furnishings - Exceptional London Antiques

Stock: 14195

A large embossed brass roundel depicting a Bacchanalian procession, in a rural setting, of playful cherubs carrying wine and a basket of fruit and led by one riding a Curly-Coated Retriever. English, circa 1870.

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	diameter
	20 1⁄2" 52.1 cms

Stock: 13631

A large Art Nouveau stoneware jardiniere and stand made by Doulton of Lambeth with stylised lotus and rosette.
English circa 1910.

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	diameter	height
jardiniere	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
stand	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms

Stock: 12133

A pair of very small 19th century patinated cast iron campan urns in the Neo Classical style, the integral plinths with trophy decoration. English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms

Stock: 14359

A magnificent and rare Gothic Revival, Byzantine influenced antique silver plated incense burner that could easily be converted into a grand ceiling light. The highly decorative bowl, set with many coloured glass cabochon and bearing the initials I H S a symbolic monogram of Christ, is suspended from a high domed crown on six sturdy chains. Beneath the bowl is a reversed crown terminating in a reversed ring finial.
Mid 19th century, possibly French.

This incense burner can easily be converted into a chandelier or electrolier..

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	Width	Height
	22" 56 cms	53 7⁄8" 137 cms

Stock: 11715

A cast iron Victorian roundel with the portraits most probably of Charles 1st of England and his son Charles II.
English late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 11315

A large possibly teak or mahogany ship's wheel, a brass band reinforcing the felloe or wooden rim of the wheel and with eight spokes radiating out from the central brass drum or spindle which together with the rest of the steering mechanism forms part of the helm and is the device used aboard a water vessel to control that vessel's course.
English date unknown possible early to mid 20th century.

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	Diameter	Depth
	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 10393

A well carved, antique Victorian oak frieze panel in the Rennaisance Revival manner with scrolling detail depicting winged and forked tongued Dragons or Griffins set within with floral decorative detail, the central scrolled shield displaying the initials WCH 1897.
English 1897.

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	width	height
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 14080

A small 19th century bronze church bell of elegant design. The canons and argent are still completely solid, allowing the bell to be hung. It does not have its original clapper, but one could be recast.
English late 19th century.

	Diameter	Height
	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 12815

A pair of fine bronze amorial gate post finials in the form of mythological goats with cloven hooves each holding elaborately scrolled cartouche with mounted sextupled shields bearing two heart gules ensigned with a royal crown, a rampant lion, three roses, and two rows of stars. The first quarter represents the arms of Douglas described as: Argent, a heart imperially crowned proper[i.e. gules, crowned gold] on a chief azure three mullets (stars) of the field. Sir James Douglas known as “the good” made the journey to the Holy Land while carrying the Heart of Robert the Bruce in the 13th century, perhaps this explains his family arms. Beneath this, is the arms of Dunbar, a rampant lion bordered by roses. Sir James was married in 1372 to Agnes Dunbar, daughter of Sir Patrick Dunbar. The top right quarter is believed to be the arms of the Fraser clan.

Mounted on temporary stone blocks.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	27 3⁄8" 69.5 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 13300

A tall white painted antique cast iron stick stand, with two holders, and a small dog sitting at the base. Enscribed 'Cave Canem' - Beware of the Dog.
Victorian late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 12991

A tall white painted antique cast iron stick stand, with central mask decoration surrounded by foliage, a large square stick support and central stem terminating in a removable drip tray.
Victorian late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 12781

A near pair of antique cast iron plant holders or jardinières in the Georgian Roman Revival manner, with raised cast detail of olive branch, laurel wreath and ribbons on one, and raised cast wreath and ivy leaf on the other, each rests on four acanthus style feet.
English Victorian mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 12460

A small antique bronze stags head wall bracket after Christophe Fratin, the horseshoe shaped platform with an underside cast with oak sprigs and acorns, above the stag’s head with six-point antlers, the underside inscribed ‘FRATIN’.
French late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 11702

A large antique circular bronze roundel or plaque depicting a reclining female faun and a pipe playing putti.
English, 19th century.

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	diameter	depth
	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 12558

An antique Gothic Revival carved and painted wooden jardiniere, with four foliate pine cone scroll supports to the upper section, painted in green, gold, blue & red.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height
	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	55 1⁄2" 141 cms

Stock: 11900

A historic propeller from the Le Rhone Rotary engine of an Avro 504 airplane.This fine early, large laminated, mahogany and oak propeller, made around 1919 bears identification stamps indicating its British Air Ministry registration, and technical specifications. The particular 110 HP LE RHONE engine was unusual in that the entire circular cylinder block rotated around the crankshaft, in contrast to RADIAL and in-line engines when it was the crankshaft that rotated.

The AVRO 504K was a fighter bomber aeroplane used by the RAF in the First World War. 10,000 were built from the first flight in 1913 to 1932 making it the most produced plane from WW1. It was later flown by 40 air forces world wide. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English, circa 1919.

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	Length	Height	Depth
	106 1⁄4" 270 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	6 3⁄8" 16.3 cms

Stock: 11898

A Large 1920 laminated polished walnut, broad two bladed aircraft propeller. Each blade has a brass cap to the tip, the leading edge pinned with scallop decorative brass protective strip, the boss stamped OCM No. 73 OCM over the date 20.6.927, further stamped CA73 ASSO 500 Diam 295 PAS 172 194 DIS 014, and finished in deep green over perhaps red with white banding, paint surface now aged with crackle finish. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English circa 1927.

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	diameter
	116 1⁄8" 295 cms

Stock: 11896

A rare Handley Page HP 1930's two bladed aircraft propeller. Two of these very large laminated mahogany propellers were fitted on each of the four Bristol Jupiter XIF radial engines of this early Imperial Airways Airliner which carried 24 passengers and 4 crew in 500 mile hops cruising at 100mph. Initially these four classically named behemoths reached in up to 28 stages destinations as far as Karachi in then India. Later based in Cairo they were to provide the ultimate long distance connection to South Africa and eventually to Australia. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

With the names Hanno, Hannibal, Hadrian and Horsa there were four of these rather impressive clippers of the skies on Imperial Airways', later B.O.A.C., intercontinental run. They, their crews and ground staff were pioneers using what now is seen as elementary Boy's Own technology but whose personnel, installations and expertise were used to great advantage when war came in the 1940's and a flood of military aircraft were ferried from the Canadian and American factories over the Caribean and South America to the North African, Far and Near East theaters of the war.

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	diameter
	141 11⁄16" 360 cms

Stock: 11895

The markings of this mahogany Bristol Bulldog Propeller show that it was fitted to a Bristol Mercury IV S.2 Radial aircooled aircraft engine and dated May 1932 . This one has a 10ft diameter with brass leading edge covers. These engines were first fitted to Bulldogs in March 1932. At this time it was the front line RAF fighter. The provenance is obscure but it is believed that it was found in an Italian mountain village. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

The Bulldog was a sophisticated and powerful biplane and one of the last of the RAF's frontline biplane fighters. It was replaced in 1937 by the Hurricane. It was in one of these Bulldogs that the RAF fighter ace, Douglas Bader, became one of the RAF's leading air pilots.

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	diameter
	120 1⁄2" 306 cms

Stock: 11894

An original propeller from the Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 6 cylinder radial aircraft engine aircraft engine propeller dated July 1933 and much used for Avro “Anson” twin engined aircraft which was a between the wars RAF and American Army Air Corps training aircraft. It also equipped the famous Bristol Bulldog single seat fighter and others. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1933.

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	width
	88 3⁄16" 224 cms

Stock: 11893

A historic World War I De Havilland two blade mahogany, ash and walnut propeller. The eight stud fitting holes indicate that this propeller would have been fitted to a De Havilland Gnome 14 cylinder, 100hp two row radial rotary engine which powered the BS, later designated the SE2, single engine World War 1 scout/fighter designed and first flown by a young Geoffrey De Havilland around 1913. It was the first aeroplane in the world specifically designed as a fast single seat scout and as Bleriot was said to have originated the tractor biplane, was known as the Bleriot Scout, or B.S.1. It was manufactured at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, England. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English early 20th century.

Notes: The wooden, circular section monococque fuselage was a masterpiece of the cabinet maker's art and years ahead of its time. It merged smoothly into the lines of the closely cowled engine to give the B.S.1 a very good streamlined shape. Lateral control was by warping the single bay wings and the tail unit featured a diminutive rudder, without fixed fin, mounted above a one-piece tailplane and elevator. For its day the B.S.1 was very fast and in March 1913 its designer, now Lt. de Havilland, Special Reserve, was timed over the speed course at 91.4 m.p.h. Unfortunately the rudder was far too small for the considerable keel surface of the deep front fuselage and directional control was poor. Consequently, later on the day of the speed trials, it went out of control in a turn and de Havilland was injured as it struck the ground in a flat spin.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	97 5⁄8" 248 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 11527

A rather large framed burnished brass embossed panel in the Baroque manner, featuring myriad Putti reaping and stacking corn, pressing grapes and sleeping it off in the Bachanalian tradition, all in a rural landscape setting. The scene was possibly taken from original drawings, please see images below, which may have been part of a series depicting The Harvest as shown in The Connoisseur Magazine Oct 1911 pages 99 & 103, artist unknown.
Late 19th early 20th century.

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	length
	65 11⁄16" 167 cms

Stock: 8696

A large antique circular embossed brass plaque, centred by the bust of Emperor Charles V (1500 - 1558 ) and surrounded by portrait medallions, putti and leaf scrolls. He was the Duke of Burgundy and ruler of the Netherlands from 1506, became the ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1516 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in central, western, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia, the first to be described as "The empire on which the sun never sets".
French late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	35" 89 cms

Stock: 3648

A finely detailed cast iron Victorian oval plaque in the Italian Renaissance manner.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	8 11⁄16" 22.2 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.7 cms

Stock: 2998

A round embossed patinated brass Victorian roundel in the Renaissance manner depicting a group of men smoking and drinking in a tavern.
Late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	24" 61 cms

Stock: 7174

A rare Victorian mahogany steel and brass philosophical demonstration model of a steam locomotive with 13.5 gauge 2-4-0 axel arrangement, two cylinders, reverse and various mechanisms.
English, circa 1860 (photo before restoration and re-polishing).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	49 1⁄2" 125.7 cms	14" 35.6 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 8887

An early 19th century wrought iron external triple bell & pull with scrolled leaf and silhouette figures of possibly Father Time or The Grim Reaper or an Angel - who can say ! In working order with later chain.
English, circa 1800.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	6 1⁄2" 16.5 cms

Stock: 10488

A carved oak cherubic Victorian wall mask in the Jacobean manner, against folded drapes background.19th century possibly earlier.

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	width	height	depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 9284

A set of two antique Coalbrookdale cast iron cooking pots of graduated sizes as illustrated in the Coalbrookdale Company Catalogue 1875, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

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	Diameter	Height
Larger	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	11" 28 cms
Smaller	12" 30.5 cms	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms

Stock: 7179

A Theatrical pair of large, carved wood polychrome and gilt Egyptian masks, based on the funerary mask of King Tutankhamun.
Late 20th century

Two funerary masks of Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt (1336 – 1327 BC) based on the famous original housed at the Museum of Cairo, Egypt and excavated by the English archaeologist, Howard Carter in 1922.
Tutankhamun ruled from Memphis, Egypt and was around seventeen years old when he died. The original masks are considered to be the finest examples of art and craftsmanship of ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom, and the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb and its extraordinary treasures in the Valley of the Kings was an international sensation, influencing art and design of the Art Deco period. The original mask, illustrated below, was created from hammered gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, quartz, turquoise, obsidian and coloured glass and covered the head of the mummy on the innermost third coffin. His forehead in a striped royal headdress bears Egyptian symbols of divine authority and protection, Nekhbet the vulture and Wadjet the cobra, and stylised falcon heads decorate his shoulders. Tutankhamun was the living representation of the deity and his mask would aid his magical transition from mortality to divinity. The reproduced kohl eye make-up endows him with an eternal glamour.

A mysterious curse has been associated with the discovery of the tomb and its treasures, perhaps initiated by the press who invented a text:
"They who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death.
The reverse of Tutankhamun’s beautiful original gold mask carries a protective spell in hieroglyphics:

"Your right eye is the night bark [of the sun god], your left eye is the day bark, your eyebrows are [those of] the Ennead of the Gods, your forehead is [that of] Anubis, the nape of your neck is [that of] Horus, your locks of hair are [those of] Ptah-Soker. [You are] in front of the Osiris [Tutankhamen], he sees thanks to you, you guide him to the goodly ways, you smite for him the confederates of Seth so that he may overthrow your enemies before the Ennead of the Gods in the great Castle of the Prince, which is in Heliopolis...the Osiris, the king of Upper Egypt Nebkheperura, deceased, given life like Ra."

The sell-out, touring exhibition of the original treasures from Tutankhamun’s tomb at the British Museum in London in 1972 may have inspired the creation of Westland’s representations of the young & serene, God-King Tutankhamun.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20" 50.8 cms	32 13⁄16" 83.2 cms	16" 40.6 cms