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Stock: 15266

A delicately veined blue/grey and white Breccia Marble antique chimneypiece in the French Empire style with a slow arched opening and deep side returns. French, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	50 1⁄4" 127.7 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
Internal	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 14927

A pair of Baroque style six branch brass chandeliers. The scrolling arms support urn shaped candle cups and the central stem terminates in a large bulbous reverse finial. English, mid 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms

Stock: 14023

An early 20th century large lead garden figure of a Naiad, a water nymph, seated on a rocky outcrop. Naiads in Greek mythology were water spirits or nymphs who were said to preside over fresh water fountains, wells, springs, streams and brooks. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 13556

A carved Louis XVI style chimneypiece in Arabascata marble with a simple moulded shelf, floral garlands on the frieze and with fluted jambs decorated with large bellflowers.
French, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65 3⁄16" 165.5 cms	47" 119.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
Internal	43 1⁄2" 110.5 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms

Stock: 15279

A very beautiful Louis XVI style Pavonazzo Marble chimneypiece. The finely carved frieze, of interlocking floral roundels beneath the moulded stepped shelf, is flanked by floral endblocks above panelled volute jambs. Each jamb is topped with tumbling carved acanthus leaf detail and rests on sturdy footblocks. French, late 19th century..

Notes: Pavonazzo Marble is one of the many varieties of white Carrara marble and is valued for its fine black, grey, violet and honey veining. The name derives from the Italian word for peacock (pavone) and it is also referred to as Pavonazzetto. It has been used by the Romans since around 43 BC when quarrying began at Docimium and can be seen in the House of Augustus, as well as in the Temple of Mars and many of the grand Roman villas.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58 7⁄8" 149.5 cms	47 1⁄8" 119.7 cms	13 7⁄8" 35.2 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	36 1⁄2" 92.7 cms

Stock: 14274

A large marble plaque, or chimneypiece tablet, depicting the winged Nike, Greek Goddess of Victory, driving a chariot pulled by team of powerful horses. She is attended by a pair of winged cherubic attendants and a hunting dog can be seen running alongside the horses. English, late 19th century.

Notes: The Greek goddess Nike personified Victory. She was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the goddess Styx and a close companion of Zeus. She took on the role of the divine charioteer and flew around battlefields rewarding the victors with glory and fame, symbolized by a wreath of laurel leaves.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	27" 68.5 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	2 3⁄16" 5.5 cms

Stock: 15298

A large and beautiful antique giltwood sunburst centred by a carved mask, mounted on a trompe l'oeil roundel, of the Greek God Apollo as a personification of the Sun. Radiating out from the mask are twenty two sun rays linked to a giltwood framed circle of further trompe l'oeil set with four giltwood bosses. It is likely to have once been a ceiling adornment in a grand Italian palazzo.
Italian, mid 19th century.

Photos before restoration.

Notes: Apollo was a Greek Roman deity and one of the Twelve Olympians. Recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth, healing, the Sun and light, poetry and prophecy he was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

Link to: Antique sculptures, carvings, bronzes, plaques and tablets one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.[1]

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	Diameter	Depth
	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 8638

A pair of large, early 20th century, terracotta garden urns in the Baroque manner with gadrooned bowls and plaited basket weave band collars around the necks.
English, circa 1930.

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	width	height
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 15244

An Edward Pugin Gothic Revival Caen Stone antique fireplace surround. The fine rose red breccia marble shelf and carved undershelf are flanked by projecting faceted endblocks. Beneath the shelf are deeply carved foliate spandrels flanking the pointed arched opening. The wide jambs are fronted by cippolino marble columns, with foliate capitals and statuary marble bases typically of E Pugin's work. The whole fireplace is raised on large faceted footblocks. English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	55 1⁄2" 141 cms	50 3⁄16" 127.5 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Internal	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 15332

A large Gothic Revival, cast iron Victorian fire grate with a pointed trefoil arch backplate centred by rosette spray, a two barred grate mounted with a pair of fleur de lys finials and fronted by a very fine decorative pair of tall andirons each topped with brass ball finials. The andirons bear a diamond registration mark for 1846, the fire grate bears a diamond registration mark for 1867. In the manner of A.W.N Pugin. English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	32 1⁄2" 82.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 14854

A substantial Louis XV chimneypiece in boldly veined Pavonazzo marble. The deeply moulded shelf is set above a panelled serpentine frieze, which is centred with a Rocaille shell cartouche and foliate detail. The C-scroll and shell endblocks sit above acanthus scrolled, angled console jambs.
French, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	75" 190.5 cms	49 5⁄8" 126 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms

Stock: 15359

A highly unusual and attractive Gothic Revival oak and inlaid ebony Victorian sideboard attributed to the renowned English furniture designer Charles Bevan(1820s-1882).

The undercut top shelf, with a raised three quarter gallery, rests above three neat drawers beneath which is a central set of recessed open shelves, flanked by two cupboards with quatrefoil paneled doors. The brass ringed handles, hinges and locks are original and the whole is supported on a sturdy plinth base. A finely made piece of furniture with great attention paid to detail and carving.
English, late 19th century.

Notes: Charles Bevan was a Victorian Gothic Revival designer who was noted for his marquetry designs. In earlier years he worked with prestigious furniture manufacturers and designers including Gillows and J. P. Seddon and became very well known his work featuring in catalogues and periodicals. A woodcarver and cabinetmaker of some distinction in 1872 he set up in partnership with his son, designing and manufacturing marquetry furniture until his death in 1892.Examples of his work can be viewed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and can also be found in various English country mansions.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 15178

An elegant Louis XVI style fireplace surround, finely carved in Arabascato marble. The fluted frieze, beneath the moulded shelf, with a central floral garland panel is flanked by round rosette paterae on the endblocks. The fluted volute jambs topped by tumbling floral festoons and scrolled feet supported on sturdy footblocks. French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄4" 181 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.4 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	36 7⁄8" 93.8 cms

Stock: 15278

A very fine Louis XVI antique chimneypiece in a lightly veined, soft grey Bardiglio marble. The stepped shelf, with a bead and reel under band, rests on a beautifully carved foliate frieze of scrolling acanthus leaves framing a small floral cartouche above a band of bound rod moulding. Flanking the frieze are large square floral paterae supported on bold, stopped fluted volute jambs. French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms	15" 38 cms
Internal	43 7⁄8" 111.5 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 13751

A William IV polished steel and bronze mounted Regency serpentine fireplace fender with scrolled acanthus decoration and a pair of integral fire tool stands the whole raised on shell cartouche feet. There is a diamond mark for 1843.
English mid 19th century.

( Shown below with a set of brass fire tools now sold )

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	width	height	depth
	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 15360

A Louis XVI style Breche Violette Marble chimneypiece. with fine violet, rose, blue and gold veining on a white background. The breakfront shelf, with a moulded edge, rests above a wide fluted frieze flanked by rosette paterae on the endblocks above stop fluted jambs raised on stepped footblocks. Slightly smaller but similar to chimneypiece SNo 15366.
French, late 19th century.

Notes: Breche Violette Marble is an increasingly rare marble quarried near the town of Serravezza, close to the Carrara region in Italy. It is often found in grand Italian churches and was used to create the columns in the galleries of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	50 7⁄8" 129.3 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.4 cms	14 1⁄4" 36.3 cms
Internal	35 1⁄4" 89.6 cms	32 5⁄8" 82.7 cms

Stock: 15348

A pair of 18th century Dutch Delft Faience blue and white vases of octagonal baluster form the covers with scrolling foliate finials. They are very finely painted in cobalt blue. The front panels decorated with peonies and willow trees within scrollwork cartouches the back panels with leaf sprigs on a white background. There are makers mark and initials to the base of each vase. Dutch, circa 1764-70.

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	Width	Height
	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	17 1⁄8" 43.5 cms

Stock: 15265

A Louis XVI antique chimneypiece in softly veined Arabascato Marble. Charming in its simplicity. The moulded shelf, above a bolection style opening, is supported by angled, panelled jambs resting on sectioned footblocks.
French, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 14603

An enormous Regency style ceiling light in bronze toned metal.
Provenance: Removed from a Central London hotel foyer.
English, late 20th century.

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	Width	Height
	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 10223

A fine pair of grand walnut doors, casements and overdoors carved and gilded in the French Renaissance manner. They were originally in Park Place a Grade II listed house set in 570 acres near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. The overdoors with arched pediments, centred by a large stylised shell flanked by ornate side scrolls, rest on the carved and gilded door surrounds again with the shell features. The upper panels of the doors are very finely carved with stylised dolphins, strapwork and cartouche each centred by lion masks carved in high relief. The lower panels with arched, raised and fielded panels. The doors are held on substantial rising butt brass hinges and the reverse side of each is set with plain raised and fielded panels. The house featured in the 2009 St Trinians film when the name Headmistress was affixed to the rear of one of the doors as can be seen in the last image. French, circa 1870.

Photos before restoration and please note that the doors can be sold separately.

Provenance: The doors were commissioned in the Renaissance style by the Noble family for Park Place which was built in the French Renaissance manner in 1871 by Architect Thomas Cundy.

Notes: John Noble bought the estate in 1869 and it stayed in the family until 1947 when it was auctioned off in a number of lots. The house was bought by the Middlesex County Council and in 1965 ownership was transferred to Hillingdon Council. The house and gardens were subsequently sold twice more during which time both were carefully restored and are now once again in private ownership.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	123 5⁄8" 314 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms
Door only.	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	82 11⁄16" 210 cms

Stock: 15251

A Louis XVI style antique chimneypiece in softly hued grey, black and white Arabascato Marble. The moulded breakfront shelf rests above a stop fluted frieze flanked by finely carved floral endblocks. The scrolled stop fluted jambs are supported on sturdy footblocks in front of deep side returns.
French, late 19th century.

Notes: Arabascato Marble is from a bedrock quarry in the Apuan Mountains near Carrara in Italy and is a classic Italian marble. The black veining on the pure white background is synonymous with opulence and luxury and its simplicity works very well in both contemporary or traditional interiors.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 3⁄16" 145.4 cms	42 3⁄8" 107.7 cms	17 1⁄2" 44.4 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103.2 cms	33" 83.8 cms

Stock: 12900

A small Neoclassical style terracotta garden lion in a recumbent position, rather sphinx like, raised on a rectangular base.
English, circa 1870.

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	width	height
	24" 61 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 15336

A most attractive Louis XVI style antique fire surround in rare Breche Violette Marble with fine violet, rose, blue and gold veining on a white background. The breakfront shelf, with a moulded edge, rests above a wide fluted frieze flanked by fluted endblocks above stop fluted jambs raised on stepped footblocks. Similar to but slightly larger than chimneypiece SNo 15360.
French, late 19th century.

Notes: Breche Violette Marble is quarried near the town of Serravezza, close to the Carrara region in Italy. It is often found in grand Italian churches and was used to create the columns in the galleries of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄4" 145.5 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms
Internal	39 5⁄8" 100.6 cms	31 3⁄8" 79.7 cms

Stock: 7579

A finely carved, late George III or George IV Statuary Marble chimneypiece tablet, originally the centre piece of a fireplace frieze, depicting Artemis reclining on rocks with her hound before her. English, late 18th early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms	7 13⁄16" 19.7 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 15335

A delicately carved Louis XV style pure white Carrara Marble antique Rococo fire surround. The shaped breakfront moulded shelf sits above a panelled serpentine frieze, centred by a floral cartouche framed with acanthus leaves, and flanked by roll topped floral endblocks. The angled scrolled jambs terminating in rolled acanthus detail are supported on sturdy, curved footblocks. French, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	38 1⁄2" 97.8 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms

Stock: 10173

A late Victorian polished brass eight light chandelier with central subsidiary oil lamp flanked by four pairs of scrolling arms, fitted for electricity.
English late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	55 7⁄8" 142 cms

Stock: 15334

A small finely carved Statuary Marble Louis XVI antique chimneypiece with a gently curved bow fronted shelf and frieze adorned with applied ormolu ornamentation in the form of laurel wreaths to the frieze, endblocks and the stop fluted jambs. French, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	52 3⁄16" 132.5 cms	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms
Internal	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 14757

A large and imposing Louis XVI chimneypiece in Belgian Black Marble together with its original brass insert.The frieze and endblocks are carved in Red Languedoc Marble. The stepped moulded shelf rests above the wide ornately carved frieze centred by a female mask resting on a bed of scrolling leaf and rosette detail. The endblocks bear large and bold garlanded female masks above grand stop fluted console jambs raised on stepped footblocks. French, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 1⁄4" 209 cms	62 11⁄16" 159.2 cms	19 13⁄16" 50.2 cms
Internal	53 3⁄16" 135.2 cms	46 7⁄8" 119.2 cms

Stock: 10088

A small Regency antique fireplace surround with a reeded shelf moulding in Statuary and inlaid Spanish Brocatelle marble. The frieze, inset with fluted panels, is centred by a roundel echoed on the end blocks above plain inlaid fluted jambs raised on simple foot blocks. Removed from a house in Chelsea in south west London.
English, early 19th century.

Shown here with fire grate SNo 14205 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.5 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms
Internal	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	37 1⁄8" 94.3 cms

Stock: 10296

A compact Louis XVI fireplace surround in intricately veined Buixcarro Crema Marble. The panelled frieze, beneath the moulded shelf, is centred with a finely carved tablet of a ribboned, floral garland flanked by square floral paterae on the endblocks both carved in Statuary Marble.
French 19th century.

Shown here with andirons 15115 not yet on the web and not included in the price.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	46 11⁄16" 118.5 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Internal	35" 89 cms	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms

Stock: 15325

A small, lightly veined, Carrara Marble antique fireplace surround in the Louis XVI manner. The breakfront shelf rests above a panelled frieze flanked by well carved floral paterae on the endblocks. The tapering part fluted jambs are topped by shell and panel detail. French, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40" 101.7 cms	43" 109.3 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	32" 81.3 cms

Stock: 4252

A fine cast iron and brass Regency hob grate in the Greek Revival manner, with an akroter mounted backplate, a bow fronted, three barred grate with a brass apron supported either side by a pair of large decoratively scrolled jambs.
English, circa 1820.

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	width	height	depth
	37 1⁄2" 95.2 cms	35" 88.9 cms	17" 43.2 cms

Stock: 9940

A very smart Louis XVI antique fireplace in Green Campan ribboned Marble. The curved breakfront shelf, supported on fluted guilloche decorated side panels, is set above a bow fronted frieze carved with interlocking guilloche motif flanked by floral paterae endblocks over scrolled, fluted and angled jambs with attractive side serrations.
French 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 1⁄4" 178.5 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms	12 7⁄8" 32.7 cms
Internal	48 5⁄8" 123.5 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 15223

A large arched Statuary Marble Victorian fireplace surround of simple design with Sienna Marble inlay. The wide stepped and moulded shelf sits above the arched opening with it's central paneled keystone and carved spandrels flanked by a pair of wide paneled inset jambs.
English, mid 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 15121 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	75 5⁄8" 192 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	40" 101.7 cms	36" 91.5 cms

Stock: 15138

A suite of 20th century Coalbrookdale style garden seats consisting of a pair of chairs and a two seater bench. Entwined serpents and vines enhance the cast iron bench ends with hand rests terminating in hound dog heads. The back and seats are hardwood possibly mahogany. English, mid 20th century.

Photo before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Larger	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms
Smaller	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms