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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: 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: 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.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	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: 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

Stock: 14006

A Georgian steel bowfront fireplace fender rasied on a stepped base, the frieze pierced and cut with an athemion design. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	51 13⁄16" 131.5 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms

Stock: 14931

A large and beautifully made late Edwardian silver plated brass ceiling light suspended from four rigid barley twist chains. The cut and frosted glass bowl is held within a highly ornate frame of scrolling tendrils, bellflowers, rosettes and reverse athemion detail. The gallery is set with alternating depictions of dolphins and rosette medallions.
English, Circa 1910.

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	Diameter	Drop without the chain
	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 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: 14925

A substantial 20th century Baroque style brass lantern after the Versailles model. The large crown corona, suspended from a laurel wreath ring and above acanthus leaf mountings, holds the thirty two bevelled glass panels each within brass frames and arranged in four tiers. The panels are adorned with stylised brass rosettes and beneath are four scrolled grotesque mask supports terminating with a reverse pineapple finial. English, late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 14880

A fine Edwardian matched set of wrought iron and copper fireplace accessories. The set consists of a large fender with exuberant scrollwork and leaf detail held by a series of copper knopped finials and a pair of reeded finial topped unrights; a pair of tool rests, with ornate copper foliate detail raised on scrolled feet and a pair of barley twist fire tools, a poker and a pair of tongs with reeded finial topped handles together with a copper finial tool stop.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Fender	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	14" 35.5 cms
tool rest	10" 25.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 14855

A wide cut steel antique Victorian fireplace fender. The serpentine freeze, pierced with a double slat design interspersed with a series of boss medallions and with bead edging, is supported by a pair of sturdy pillars on plinth feet. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60" 152.5 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 14992

A large arched Victorian chimneypiece in pure white Statuary Marble. The wide moulded shelf rests above an arched opening set with a central floral keystone flanked by carved spandrels of birds perched on stylised fern sprays with descending buds and tendrils.
English circa 1860.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 14370 not included and not yet on the web.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	76 3⁄8" 194 cms	49" 124.5 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms
Internal	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms

Stock: 11278

A period Louis XV fireplace surround in Pierre de Bourguignon, Burgundy Stone known in French as a Pierre Marbrier because of its hard, marble like character whereby it takes a polish. This one with the serpentine shelf integral with the panelled frieze centred by a delicate shell cartouche flanked either end by kidney shaped angled upper jamb decoration. French, late 17th, early 18th century.

Shown here with andirons SNo 11106 not included.

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	width	height	depth
External	59 13⁄16" 152 cms	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.7 cms
Height	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 15004

An elegant white painted Regency wrought iron garden seat with an oval and arched sectioned back above a slatted seat with curled feet and a bowed cross-stretcher. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms

Stock: 14787

A large and grand Victorian walnut fireplace surround. The corniced, breakfront shelf resting on a plain frieze, beneath a dentil border, is centred by a carved plaque of mythical beasts. The large cartouche endblocks above tall ornately carved panels topped by ancone brackets fronting the jambs. The plain frame around the fireplace opening is centred by a carving of vases, frond and fruits amid acanthus foliage and a pair of intriguing, playful putti.
English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	87 13⁄16" 223 cms	65 3⁄8" 166 cms	9 13⁄16" 24.9 cms
Internal	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	48 13⁄16" 124 cms

Stock: 14980

A Neoclassical style marble plaque in pure white Statuary Marble finely carved with a central urn surrounded by scrolling foliage and ribboned descending grape vines. English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.7 cms	1 1⁄8" 2.8 cms

Stock: 14903

A substantial cast iron Victorian fireplace surround in the Neoclassical style with a wide shelf above a fluted frieze centred by a floral panel. There are large roundels on the endblocks above jambs fronted by pairs of twin tapering, stop fluted pillars with ornate capitals either side of the egg and dart framed opening. The registration number for 1898 is cast to the back.
English, late 19th century.

	width	height	depth
external	69 1⁄2" 176.5 cms	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms
internal	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 14554

An impressive and large baptismal font entirely carved from Ashburton Marble. This is a soft grey and blush pink, lightly veined marble with evidence of fossil remains of creatures, principally corals, crinoids and brachiopods, that lived in the Devonian Sea 360-380 million years ago, It was quarried in Devon in the west of England mainly during the 19th century. The deep, round font bowl sits on a sturdy circular column and is further supported by four tall Ashburton and Swedish Green Marble pillars. The whole font rests on it's original, octagonal stone base. English, late 19th century.

Notes: Ashburton Marble is more accurately a form of limestone and not a true marble but was described as such as it was capable of taking a high polish resembling marble. It was brought to prominence in the Victorian era. In 1852 a Devon newspaper 'The Western Times', reported that some large blocks of marble had been excavated from quarries adjoining the ancient Stannary Town of Ashburton. It was suggested at the time that the marble be used for the making of chimneypieces as the veins and colour were considered very decorative and superior to that found in any other quarry in South Devon. It featured in many of of the great houses, buildings and churches throughout the country including Salisbury Cathedral. This marble was still being quarried at the Linhay Quarry into the late 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
font bowl	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms
overall	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	44 3⁄16" 112.2 cms

Stock: 14890

A very smart polished and cut steel Regency antique fireplace fender with a linked medallion gallery beneath beaded edging.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 14920

A large Regency style, cranberry coloured glass bell jar shaped pendant, ceiling or hall light, terminating with a brass goblet finial and held by a brass collar suspended from a ball and hook.
English, late 20th century.

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	diameter	drop
without chain	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
with chain		29 1⁄8" 74 cms

Stock: 13682

A large cast and wrought iron Victorian fireplace fender with scrolling foliate decoration beneath a bronze gallery rail.
English, circa 1880.

	Width	Height	Depth
	60" 152.5 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms

Stock: 14974

A fine Regency fireplace surround in pure white Statuary Marble. Beautifully elegant in its simplicity. The twin cushioned panelled frieze, beneath the moulded shelf, is centred by a tablet depicting a reclining Venus, holding aloft a rose, beside a basket of flowers with her temple in the distance.The endblocks with large rosette paterae above cushioned panelled jambs.
English, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65" 165 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22.2 cms
Internal

Stock: 14629

A large and impressive English Regency iron, steel and polished brass antique fire basket with a decorative stele crest backplate. The deep bow fronted grate, above a cut and linked medallion skirt, is supported by a pair of large brass standards formed as ribbon bound columns beneath lidded vase finials and raised on splendid lion claw feet. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Back width	26" 66 cms

Stock: 14977

A Statuary Marble classically styled delightful antique plaque of generous proportions carved with a central shell cartouche flanked by a sunflower and rose and surrounded with an abundance of small flowers, wheat ears and ribboned bellflowers. English.
19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	10 13⁄16" 27.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 14868

A monumental Regency stoneware urn, in the manner of the antique. This magnificent urn recalls the form of an Ancient Greek krater - a large vessel for mixing wine. The entire urn is dedicated to the God of Wine Bacchus (Dionysus), with a band of fruiting vines to the neck, underneath which is high-relief frieze depicting a Bacchic procession or thiasus, with revellers carrying cups of wine, bunches of grapes and the other trappings of a hedonistic feast. The serpents fashioned into handles are characteristic of Bacchic iconography and they are often associated with Bacchus, as Maenads - female followers of the God - wore snakes in their hair.

This urn is unlike any other we have come across, but echoes the popularity of themes from classical antiquity, made even more popular by the phenomenon of the Grand Tour. The great engraver and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi even produced an engraved volume solely dedicated to the designs of urns in the antique style. He then manufactured urns in his Italian workshops. In England, the famous manufacturer Elizabeth Coade and designers such as Thomas Hope also produced urns in the antique manner for an eager public.

The urn is made from a weather impervious stoneware, similar to the famous Coade stone.
English c.1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms
Base	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 13378

A very fine bow fronted George III antique fireplace fender. The gallery with a cut and engraved central stylised urn surrounded by scrolling foliage and birds.
English, late 18th century.

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	width	height	depth
	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms

Stock: 14911

A substantial and attractive Edwardian pagoda style brass hall lantern with six baluster shaped columns framing the glass panels above a decorative base and with arched struts, alternating with applied athemion detail, suspended from a looped finial to the top. English, early 20th century.

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	width	drop without the chain
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 9077

A substantial Victorian antique oak fireplace surround in the Renaissance manner. The moulded shelf, above carved dentil detail, rests on a frieze set with three urn and foliate carved panels and is supported on a pair of fluted pilasters and a pair of free standing columns, all with Corinthian capitals, standing on large footblocks. English, late 19th Century.

Shown here with andirons SNo 14839 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 11⁄16" 187.2 cms	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 14936

A large diamond cut glass Edwardian antique pendant hall light with a brass crown corona gallery and applied acanthus and cartouche decoration.
English, late 19th century.

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	diameter	drop without the chain
	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 14893

A rather delightful and very decorative 20th century wall mirror with an inset bevelled plate. The frame is embellished with a variety of broken pieces of porcelain and china in a mosaic design and is fitted with small brass candle pockets. English, mid to late 20th century.

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	width	height
	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms

Stock: 14722

A Louis XVI style antique fireplace surround in finely coloured and veined Skyros Marble. This unusual and attractive marble, quarried on the Greek island of Skyros and otherwise known as Skaris Marble, was first discovered by the Romans and was one of the most important marbles used by their architects and sculptors throughout the Roman Empire. It is understood that the marble extraction on the island ceased with the coming of World War II (1939-1945).
French, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
external	57 1⁄4" 145.5 cms	43 1⁄2" 110.5 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms
internal	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms

Stock: 14066

A large and very rare George III cast & wrought iron, brass mounted antique fire grate in the Greek Revival manner. The backplate, with a rolled top embellished with scrolled foliate detail, sits behind the tooth barred curved fronted grate which is flanked by panels with applied brass stylised honeysuckle and scrolled wrought iron mountings. The grate is supported to the front by a pair of tall draped figural andirons standing on small brass footblocks.
English, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	22" 56 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
	28" 71 cms