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Stock: 15122

A very fine example of a Louis XVI style Statuary Marble fireplace surround. The breakfront shelf rests above a bead framed frieze centred by a delicately carved ribboned, leaf and berry wreath and sprigs, flanked on the endblocks by square foliate paterae. The tapering jambs are surmounted by large acanthus leaf corbels above rope moulding.
French, mid 19th century.

Shown here with a pair of andirons SNo 15115 not included.

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	width	height	depth
External	61 1⁄2" 156.2 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms
Internal	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	33 1⁄4" 84.7 cms

Stock: 15124

A large, late Victorian Derbyshire Fossil Limestone Bolection fire surround with a polished satin finish. The moulded frieze and jambs raised on substantial and sturdy footblocks.
English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 1⁄8" 168 cms	48" 122 cms	4 1⁄8" 10.3 cms
Internal	50" 127 cms	40" 101.5 cms

Stock: 15084

A large and attractive antique cast iron fire surround in the Neoclassical style. The breakfront shelf, above dentil and foliate detailed bands, rests above the stop fluted frieze with its decorative central panel of an urn surrounded by scrolling foliage and flowers.The end blocks are set with rosette paterae and the opening is framed by strings of linked buds and ribboned flowers.
Victorian, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 1⁄8" 160.3 cms	53" 134.5 cms	9 3⁄16" 23.4 cms
Internal	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms

Stock: 15062

A decorative Louis XV, Rococo style fire surround in lightly veined Carrara Marble. The shaped and moulded shelf rests above a scrolling frieze centred by a fine, large foliate and floral cartouche flanked by scrolled endblocks above angled panelled jambs terminating with foliate detail above plain footblocks. French, late 19th century.

Shown with fire basket SNo 14898 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 11⁄16" 146.5 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	17 5⁄8" 44.8 cms
Internal	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	34 7⁄8" 88.7 cms

Stock: 15069

An unusual late Victorian antique cast iron fire grate with a high shaped back with a simple inset oval cartouche. The two barred grate, surmounted by with boldly scrolled shoulders, above a neat cut leaf apron is raised on a pair of urn shaped feet. English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 3⁄8" 59.5 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Back width	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 15107

A large Edwardian, George III style brass and polished steel fire grate surmounted by two pairs of baluster finials and a cut and engraved apron of stylised scrolling foliage with beaded edging.The grate is supported on a pair of tapering column standards raised on shaped feet. English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	13" 33 cms
Back width	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms

Stock: 15067

A large George III style iron and brass Victorian fire grate. The three barred grate above a finely cut and pierced apron, with depictions of mythical beasts and flowers amidst scrolling stylised foliage and surmounted by a pair of small steeple finials is supported to the front by a pair of standards with taller steeple finials above scrolled feet.
English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	25" 63.5 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
Back width	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 14356

A fine Statuary Marble Victorian chimneypiece with grey/green Verde Antico Marble inlay very much in the George III manner. The wide moulded shelf, with an underlay of dentil detail, rests above an inlaid Greek Key frieze with a central tablet of an urn surmounted by a pair of mythical styled sphinx. The rosette paterae on the end blocks are set above inlaid fluted pilasters fronting the jambs. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 11⁄16" 182 cms	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms
Internal	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 cms

Stock: 15080

A very large and fine example of a Victorian burnished cast iron Coalbrookdale chimney piece in the Georgian Neoclassical manner of Robert Adam. The decorative urn on the freeze beneath the wide shelf is flanked by swags which in turn are flanked by pairs on lidded urns on the end blocks above twin pilasters with descending foliate detail.
English, the Coalbrookdale foundry mark and the number 367840 are on the back as is shown in the last image and date it to 1881. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 7⁄8" 200.3 cms	55 1⁄4" 140.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 15068

A fine iron and brass fire grate in the late Georgian style. The high shaped back with a central cartouche of Russian influence, with a double headed eagle beneath a crown, is held by 17th century figures. The shaped front bars of the grate, above a decoratively cut and etched apron and surmounted by small steeple finials, are flanked by curved etched shoulders supported by a pair of prominent brass standards topped by tall steeple finials.
English, early 19th century.

Notes - In heraldry the double-headed eagle is a charge associated with the concept of Empire and is frequently found with links to the Roman/Byzantine Empire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Back width	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 14650

A serpentine fronted cast iron and brass antique fire grate in the late Georgian manner of Thomas Elsley of London with a high shaped backplate centred by an oval medallion surrounded with ribbons and swags of bellflowers. The bow fronted three bar grate, surmounted by a pair of fine urn finials above applied brass ropes of descending bellflowers flanked by sunburst designs, is supported by a pair of tall out-swept bulbous stemmed standards raised on splayed feet. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Back width	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 14688

An interesting 19th century Belgian Black Marble and patinated bronze mounted mantel clock. The clock face rests on the back of a large bronze grotesque which holds the brass rimmed black dial with its brass Roman numerals and hands which are fixed to an engraved sunburst plate. This is flanked on either side with classical style relief panels in patinated bronze and the arched top is supported by a pair Atlas styled crouching figures in the manner of Alfred Stevens. The movement strikes on a gong and the whole is raised on a plinth base with brass stepped feet.
French circa 1875.

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	width	height
	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 14971

A grand gilt bronze clock garniture in the Louis XVI style. The clock, with an 8 day striking movement that strikes on the half and the full hour and with it's original pendulum and key, is set in an ornate gilt bronze case mounted on a decorative base. The convex porcelain dial with cobalt blue Roman hours and black Arabic minutes, fine gilt hands, ringed lion masks and a bevelled convex glass door is topped by an ornate lidded urn with an acorn finial. The pair of tall five branch candelabra with further ringed lion masks and similar decorative bases.
French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms	27" 68.5 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 12734

A large Victorian limestone fireplace surround in the Elizabethan style with carved shields and highly stylised mythical beasts carved on the spandrels. Image before restoration. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 1⁄4" 155.6 cms	49" 124.5 cms	6" 15.2 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms

Stock: 14684

A small French Carrara Marble antique fireplace surround in the Louis XVI style with its original ornate cast iron insert. The frieze, centred by a finely carved laurel wreath trailing sprays of laurel to ether side, is flanked by acanthus adorned rounded endblocks above half round attached fluted columned jambs supported on curved footblocks. French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	52 13⁄16" 134 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.3 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	34 3⁄16" 86.8 cms

Stock: 15110

A boldly veined, white English Marble fire surround in the traditional late Victorian style with large corbels on substantial jambs beneath the wide shelf.
English, late 19th century.

Shown with register grate 15093 ot included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 7⁄8" 175 cms	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	35 13⁄16" 91 cms

Stock: 14970

A finely carved early George III giltwood wall mirror in the manner of Thomas Chippendale, surmounted by a large Ho-Ho bird perched with wings outspread. The mirror with its original mercury glass also is framed by gilt acanthus scrolls, rosettes and foliate detail. The mirror has a lovely rubbed and burnished surface. English, circa.1765.

The Ho Ho bird myth originated in Japan and is similar to the phoenix. It was said to bring luck and symbolise good fortune. Carvings of these birds appeared in England in the 18th century on Georgian furniture and most commonly mounted on mirrors.

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	width	height
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	48" 122 cms

Stock: 15060

A Victorian cast iron and brass mounted large antique fire grate with a stepped arched back plate centred by a radial foliate design and central boss. The wide grate, surmounted by a pair of urn finials, is flanked by shoulders with seated dragons and is supported by a pair of prominent tapered and fluted classical style standards topped by ornate flambeau finials. English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms	26 3⁄16" 66.5 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Back width	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 15108

A set of Victorian Pavonazza Marble fireplace ingrounds in the Tudor style with moulded jambs beneath a slow arched opening raised on turned plinth foot blocks.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 7⁄8" 144.4 cms	49 11⁄16" 126.3 cms	3 7⁄8" 9.8 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	45 13⁄16" 116.3 cms

Stock: 14967

A large and rare glazed turquoise ceramic jardiniere and stand in the Egyptian manner designed by Christopher Dresser and made by the Linthorpe Art Pottery in Middlesborough.

The jardiniere is stamped with the makers name on the base, along with the number 2253, and can also be seen on the inside of the base of the stand along with the number 2058. Both are shown in the tenth image below. Please note one of the handles has been restored and there is a restored chip to the rim. English, late 19th century.

Notes: Linthorpe Art Pottery ran for just ten years from 1879 to 1889. It was started by John Harrison at the suggestion of Christopher Dresser, the prominent designer. Dresser supplied many designs for the pottery. Henry Tooth ran the pottery until 1882, when he left to set up Bretby Art Pottery with William Ault he was succeeded at Linthorpe by Richard Patey.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 14968

An impressive and large late 19th century French quarter chiming gilt brass Gothic Revival bracket or mantel clock retailed by Hall & Company, Manchester. The case, with engraved floral decoration and applied coloured cabuchon jewel mounts, encloses a gilt 7" Roman dial with a finely scroll engraved centre and an eight day spring driven movement with anchor escapement chiming the quarters on a nest of two bells. The movement was made in Saint Nicolas d' Aliermont, by Pierre-Honoré-César Pons and then finished by the Parisian Clock maker, Louis Achille Brocot. French, circa 1870.

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	width	height	depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 15052

A heavy Regency cast iron fire grate with a pediment backplate, linked circles forming the grate front and sides, sturdy barley twist standards topped by small round finials and terminating in reeded bulbous, pegged feet. English circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24 1⁄8" 61.2 cms	23 11⁄16" 60.2 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 11502

An elegant brass Regency fireplace fender with a bombe shaped central panel set within a pair of reeded bands and raised on three lion claw feet.
Earl,y 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 13434

A pair of 19th century bronze and onyx fire dogs in the Etruscan manner. The ornate, tapering uprights, surmounted by onyx orbs within decorative strapping and beneath pineapple finials, sit upon equally ornate waisted bases pierced by pineapple tipped rods holding roundels with portraits of female heads. All supported on shaped pedestal bases with leaf detail. French, circa 1870.

	Width	Height	Depth
	12 1⁄4" 31.3 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 15059

A late Victorian steel and engraved brass Georgian style fire grate. The arched back plate with a depiction of a pair of angelic mermaids, rests behind the grate which has engraved detail on the brass shoulders, with beaded edging, surmounted by a pair of small urn finials. The pierced and engraved apron is embellished with linked lozenge medallions and further beaded edging. The whole is supported to the front by a pair of engraved and tapering standards surmounted by a larger pair of urn finials.
English, Late, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	27 1⁄4" 69.4 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Back width	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 7944

A decorative Neoclassical style chimneypiece in Statuary & Sienna marble with a moulded breakfront shelf above a central panel. This panel depicts a group of playful putti wrestling a ram, bearing a mask and climbing a tree in a forest setting, bordered by oval paterae and bellflower garlands and putti endblocks over similarly carved jambs. English, circa 1890.

Shown here with fire basket SNo 10350 now sold.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70" 177.8 cms	59 1⁄2" 151.1 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms
Internal	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	43 1⁄2" 110.5 cms

Stock: 15045

A brass & cast iron fire basket made in the Regency style by the Victorian manufacturer Thomas Elsley of London. The shaped backplate, with a pair of seated griffin either side of a tall flaming urn, sits behind a two barred grate, with a scrolled brass apron, surmounted by a pair of knopped brass finials above reeded side panels on cabriole legs.English, circa 1900.

Notes: Thomas Elsley was a late Victorian manufacturer of predominantly cast-iron architectural and decorative pieces. His premises were at the Portland Metal Works in Great Titchfield Street, London. Arrtists, such as C. F. A. Voysey often designed for him.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms
Back width	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 14773

An elegant High Renaissance style polished Belgian Black Marble antique fireplace mantel. The fluted panelled frieze is centred by a strapwork tablet flanked by foliate detailed endblocks resting above Rosso Antico Marble tapering, free standing columns raised on double footblocks.
Flemish, 19th century.

Shown here with andirons SNo 12784 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms	15" 38 cms
Internal	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 14370

A large, and rather grand Baroque style antique cast iron Victorian fire basket with a high arched sunburst themed backplate. The bow fronted grate has a lower knopped barley twist front bar beneath an upper bar surmounted with three knob finials. The grate is supported by a pair of columned standards, topped by pinnacle finials, above sturdy shaped feet.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Back Width	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 15048

A large and fine pair of porcelain armorial lidded vases with meticulously hand painted molded and enamelled family crests and foliate decoration made by Edmé Samson (b Paris, 1810; d Paris, 1891), and were probably intended to be used as ginger jars. French, circa.1870.

Notes: Edmé Samson was the founder of the ceramics firm Samson, Edmé et Cie established in Paris in the 1840's. His Chinese style makers mark can been seen at the base.

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	diameter	height
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 14997

An antique walnut Victorian canterbury with a single drawer and bobbin turned spindles. Four small knopped finials surmount the burr walnut top rail and the whole is supported on turned legs with their original brass and porcelain cup castors. English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	19 1⁄2" 49.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 14902

A late Regency mahogany games or side table. The top, with flame mahogany veneer with cross band borders and with ebony stringing, pivots through ninety degrees and the flap can then be lowered to form a square table. When lifted storage for games is revealed. When the top flaps are closed there can be seen an unusual barrel frieze. The central support is wrapped around with Greek Revival floral and foliate detail repeated on the four scrolled feet with the original brass castors neatly concealed within. Manner of Thomas Hope. English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 14976

A Rococo style iron, steel and brass Victorian fire grate with a high ornate acanthus scrolled backplate with a central oval medallion resting on sheaves of wheat. The two barred bow,fronted grate, above a scrolled, pierced brass apron with acanthus and foliate detail, is supported by a pair of proud standing monopodic griffin holding rings in their mouths. English circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Back width	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 14843

An elegant twin columned Regency chimneypiece in white Statuary Marble. The wide moulded shelf, above a plain frieze, rests on two pairs of half round tapering columns with finely carved acanthus capitals and demi-lune stepped feet. English, circa 1820.

Shown here with fire basket SNo 14370 not yet on the web.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	84" 213.4 cms	49 3⁄8" 125.5 cms	13 7⁄8" 35.2 cms
Internal	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 13697

A very unusual cast iron Arts & Crafts fire grate dominated by both a dragon and a sunburst. Used here together they could well represent triumph over adversity. English early 19th century

Notes: In European tradition the dragon was typically fire-breathing and tended to symbolize adversity, chaos or evil. The sunburst symbol has been used throughout history by nations, royalty and religions. It is traditionally defined as the sudden appearance of the sun breaking through from behind clouds and so here could well represent success after adversity or light breaking through after darkness.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	26" 66 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Back width	26 3⁄8" 67 cms