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Stock: 15474

A simply carved Tudor Revival Horton Stone Chimneypiece hewn from five blocks of stone. The only decoration is the elegant spandrels featuring a carved decoration of Tudor Roses to the corners from which emanate trailing leaves. This frames the softly rounded opening. English, circa 1930.

Notes: Horton stone is a limestone named after quarries at Hornton in north-west Oxfordshire. It is typically a rich tawny brown in colour, with natural variations.

	Width	Height	Depth
	66 1⁄8" 167.8 cms	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	5" 12.7 cms
	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	33 13⁄16" 85.8 cms

Stock: 15324

A simple and elegant bolection fireplace carved from a dove grey limestone. The polished and undulating surface reveals the subtle veining and mottling, which would be just as well suited to a contemporary interior as a period one. English, c.1930.

Provenance: Removed from a property on Eaton Square, London.

The Queen Anne style of the late 17th century saw the emergence of the simple bolection fireplace, often situated within a panelled room. It was far more simple in design that what had preceded it, and it was this striking simplicity that secured its enduring popularity.

	Width	Height	Depth
	61" 155 cms	47" 119.5 cms	3" 7.6 cms

Stock: 15475

A large Gothic Revival fireplace of grand proportions in pencil statuary marble, with an angular pointed Tudor arch opening. Above this, the the frieze is adorned with spandrels carved in high relief with a quatrefoil design. The rest of the decorative scheme is simply and crisply carved.

Shown here with stock no. 15126: A fire basket attributed to A.W.N Pugin.

English, c.1860.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 11⁄16" 200 cms	49 13⁄16" 126.5 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Internal	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms	39 1⁄4" 99.7 cms

Stock: 15491

A High Victorian tiled register grate with a decorative hood above the grate, which still features its original ash pan. The handpainted tiles are neoclassical in design, with the exception of the narrower tiles, which feature a very convincing faux-tortoiseshell design. English, c.1870.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 15490

A decorative 19th century cast iron register grate with original embossed floral tiles. It embodies the high Victorian Style, and would look lovely installed with a Victorian chimneypiece of the same date. English, c.1870.

	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 15459

A fine oak longcase clock by Philip Avenell of Farnham with later lacquered chinoiserie decoration. The eight day movement strikes the hours on a clear bell. The clock face has a 12 inch brass break arched brass dial flanked by ornate gilt brass spandrels. The raised silvered chapter ring is crisply engraved with black Roman numerals and Arabic five minute numerals to the outer aspect. The central dial has a subsidiary seconds dial, a date aperture and is profusely engraved with floral decoration. The maker's signature is signed within a cartouche. The chinoiserie decoration was likely added in the early twentieth-century. English, c.1780

Notes: Philip Avenell was part of a 200 year dynasty of clockmakers based in the South of England. Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world’ by Brian Loomes records Phillip Avenell as working in London circa 1765 then in Farnham from circa 1775, roughly when this clock was made. Philip Avenell died in 1809.

	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	86 5⁄8" 220 cms	10" 25.5 cms

Stock: 15473

A simple and elegant St Anne marble corbel fireplace. The softly grey hued St Anne marble is gently veined and displayed to great effect on the plain shelf and jambs. The undulating corbels support a broad moulded shelf. Its' simplicity is enhanced by small bands of Belgian black marble above the corbels and footblocks, an unusual detail.

English, c.1870.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	67 7⁄8" 172.5 cms	48" 122 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 15465

An elegant Louis XVI style 19th century fireplace, crisply carved from Carrara marble, with a finely carved central foliate paterae flanked by the split panelled frieze. The paterae endblocks are of the same acanthus form, and are supported by flat, stop fluted jambs, which in turn rest on plain footblocks. French, late 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	15" 38 cms
Internal	34" 86.4 cms	32" 81.3 cms

Stock: 15455

An early Regency twin pedestal sideboard in flame mahogany with a bowed tablet frieze which is flanked by two dovetailed drawers and a lower cupboard to the left, and a single dovetailed drawer mounted with a wine holder and lower cupboard to the right. The central frieze is fitted with two long drawers, the upper mounted with a central bullseye very much in the Regency manner. All drawers are mounted with brass ringed lion mask pulls. The drawers and cupboard fronts are solid mahogany, the rest of the carcass being constructed from oak. This sideboard is very much in the manner of John Soane. English or Scottish, c.1800.

	width	height	depth
	72 3⁄8" 184 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 15418

A large and ornate French 24 branch gilt brass chandelier. This chandelier embodies the Rococo style, its naturalistic form fashioned from entwined leaves and vines festooned with bunches of grapes. French, early 20th century.

	Diameter	Drop
	39" 99 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms

Stock: 15242

A fine and elegant Regency four poster mahogany bed. The high shaped tester or canopy with a well carved egg and dart band is supported by two simple posts to the rear and by a pair of tapering columns with acanthus carved detail to the front raised on sturdy bun feet. The brass curtain rails and headboard are later. Bedding not included. English, circa 1810.

Notes: Four poster beds date back to the late 14th century and often served as important status symbols. Frequently also called ‘tester beds', they had curtains to the front and sides to keep in the heat and keep out drafts and sunlight.

	Width	Height	Depth
	88 3⁄16" 224 cms	84 1⁄4" 214 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms

Stock: 15390

A small Statuary marble Regency style lion paw sculpture almost certainly once part of a fireplace. English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 3⁄16" 15.8 cms	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 14913

A set of three large French ormolu wall lights. These sconces are an unusual design, taking on Bacchic symbolism, with ribbons suspending coiled snakes, from which hang the three arms, adorned with swags of vines. Beneath, the mask of a satyr and his instruments, the pan pipes and a tambourine hang. French, c.1900.

	width	height	depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 14078

An important piece of London's dockland history. This large bell was originally cast in 1737 for The East India Company. The cast inscription reads " R.P. 1737 THE HONARABLE EAST INDIA COMPANYS BELL AT THEIR CHAPEL IN POPLAR." and on the reverse "RECAST 1966 MEARS LONDON.
English circa 1737, recast in 1966.

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	Diameter	Height
	22" 56 cms	16 11⁄16" 42.5 cms

Stock: 15464

A very decorative cast iron insert, the hood decorated with a central urn, surrounded by a pattern of vines and flowers. The hand painted original tiles continue the botanical theme, with ripe apples on branches surrounded by a decorative floral pattern. English c, 1860.

	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	12" 30.5 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.

Link to: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	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: 15344

A pair of tall cast iron Andirons in the Mannerist style, identical to the SNo 12142. The bearded deities with intriguing head dress, hand mufflers and serpent-entwined lower quarters, with oak rather than fig leaf loin covering.
17th century possibly earlier. Probably Celtic inspired by Celtic design.

Link to: Antique Andirons, Fire Dogs, Alare and Chenets

	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms

Stock: 14048

A pair of early 20th century, textured glass painted windows in rectangular leaded metal frames, decorated with naturalistic ribboned garlands of roses and foliage to the upper section above flamboyant sprays of flowers arranged within twin handled urns. French, circa 1910.

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	width	height	depth
	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	61" 155 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 14738

A rare and monumental cast iron Coalbrookdale antique fire grate identical to fire grate SNo 14374. The elaborately scrolled backplate featues a Bagot Goat jumping a fence. The substantial basket, with a strapwork apron centred by a lion mask, is supported by a pair of large and powerful panther head standards.

Provenance: The registration mark 65 The Coalbrookdale Company registered September 6th 1841 number 814 can clearly be seen on the back.
English, early to mid 19th century.

Notes: The Bagot goat is believed to be Britain's oldest breed of goat and has lived semi-wild at Blithfield Hall in Staffordshire for over six hundred years.The Coalbrookdale Company, a foundry in Shropshire established in 1709, is probably most famous for building the world's first cast iron bridge erected and opened at Ironbridge in 1780, but it was also noted for its decorative ironwork an example of which is a set of gates opening into London's Hyde Park. The blast furnaces were closed down around 1820 but the foundries remained in use.

Please note that the back plate was once broken the damage can be seen under the goat. It has been strapped on the back, so the grate is still functional.

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	width	height	depth
	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 13122

An imposingly large Jacobean Revival cedar wood antique fireplace surround with an exquisitely inlaid over mantel. This chimneypiece has a projecting pediment on the upper register which rests above a pair of strapwork panels beneath which are two high arched panels decorated with stylised ornate inlaid vases of flowers picked out in satinwood, mahogany, sycamore and ebony. The panels are set between three pairs of free standing, reeded columns with finely carved capitals terminating in tall strapwork feet. Beneath the over mantel is a fireplace surround, with a moulded shelf above a strapwok carved barrel undershelf, supported by a pair of tapering reeded jambs resting on tall footblocks.
English, circa 1870.

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

	Width	Height (Overall)	Depth
External	90 5⁄8" 230 cms	129 7⁄8" 330 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	12 13⁄16" 32.5 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 15319

A late Victorian brass Peacock fan fireguard in the Rococo style with a small urn finial and nine pierced fan panels anchored in a sturdy scrolled ornate bellflower decorated foot. The central panel with a swagged female cameo. English, circa 1890.

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	width	height	depth
	38" 96.5 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 15247

A Thomas Elsley, polished steel and cast iron Georgian style fie basket. The arched fireback centred by an urn draped with bellflowers above a four barred curved grate, with etched shoulders, is framed by beading and surmounted by a pair of lidded urn finials above a cut, pierced and etched apron. The twin tapering standards are etched and beaded and surmounted by a larger pair of lidded urn finials. English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 15219

An iron and brass fire grate in the French Regence style with a turned two bar basket, above a brass vitruvian apron and surmounted by a pair of flambeau finials. The rectangular backplate depicts a procession of playful cherubs one of which appears to be riding a goat. The grate is supported to the front by a pair of ornate Louis XIV style andirons surmounted by further by flambeau finials.
Probably French, circa 1900.

Link to: Antique fire grates and log baskets.

	Width	Height	Depth
	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 11094

An unusually large Louis XV fireplace surround in Rouge De Rance red and white figured marble. The wide serpentine shelf sits on the shaped frieze which is centred by a shell cartouche, flanked by scrolled endblocks descending on shaped and paneled, angled jambs. French, early 19th century.

Link to: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	74" 188 cms	47 13⁄16" 121.5 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms
Internal	59 5⁄8" 151.5 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms

Stock: 15462

A very pretty late Georgian brass and iron fire basket with an elegant silhouette. The high backplate sits behind the three barred grate surmounted by a pair of brass urn finials above a delicately cut apron supported by a pair of column standards also surmounted by a pair of brass finials. English, early 19th century. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	29 13⁄16" 75.8 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms

Stock: 15456

A very fine mahogany longcase clock, with an eight day movement by John Wyld of Nottingham. The fine silver dial is centred by a painted scene of a wooded landscape and this frames a date aperture. The lunette above is adorned with not only a painted moondial, but with opposing hemispheres. The dial is framed by very fine brass cherub spandrels, and mounted with three pierced hands.
The hood of the clock has a swan necked pediment with trompe l'oeil marquetry and a brass finial, which is echoes in the pair of fluted corinthian columns with brass capitals.

Inside the figured case is a four pillar movement which will be fully serviced on purchase.

Notes on the maker: John Wyld was an important and very competent maker who was born in Codnor, Derbyshire in 1710, son of another John Wyld (1678-1760) by Rebecca, sister of the notable Codnor clockmaker James Woolley (1695-1785), to whom Wyld was apprenticed. He set up at Codnor around 1732 and also rented a workshop in Chapel Bar in Nottingham from a Mr. Lupton shortly afterwards. He married in 1740 and died in 1773 leaving John, his successor at Nottingham, Joseph and three daughters.

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	width	height	depth
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	96 7⁄8" 246 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 15453

A lovely pair of Booth’s Silicone China Scale Blue table lamps. Hand painted in the manner of 18th century Worcester, these are decorated with a profusion of gilt, on a cobalt blue fishscale ground. The cartouches are painted with exotic birds - presumably pheasants - and exquisite flowers. Simple Empire style lamp shades would suit these lamps very well.
English, circa 1900.

Research: Booths' most highly prized pattern is Scale Blue, an early C20th copy of the famous Worcester blue glaze featuring vignettes with exquisitely hand-painted birds and flowers. Now extremely hard to come by, it is much sought after by Booths connoisseurs.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 14956

A pair of large, imposing brass three branch Neoclassical wall lights. The ornate central stems, surmounted by acanthus clad vases filled with roses, and from which the scrolled arms emanate, terminate in reverse acanthus clusters. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 15461

A lovely early 20th century, patinated copper, heavy Neoclassical style table lamp of very good quality. The cut glass flambeau shade is raised on four tapering legs, enclosing a reverse copper finial, and are surmounted with heads of Medusa who was one of the three monstrous winged, female Gorgons with living venomous snakes in place of hair.
English, circa 1910

Please note: We will PAT test this lamp before collection.

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	width	height	depth
	3 7⁄8" 10 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 15349

A Neoclassical brass and cast iron fire grate in the manner of Thomas Elsley. The serpentine front with pierced and engraved decoration and urn finials, raised on tapering legs. English, circa1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	31 11⁄16" 80.5 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Back panel	19" 48.3 cms

Stock: 15434

A very large, hand painted maiolica urn in the form of a classical wine krater. The exquisite painted decoration includes two central cartouches, one depicting the Judgement of Paris, the other Venus and Cupid with attendants. This is set against a blue ground decorated with foliate scrolls, masks and shells. The handles are fashioned into winged, leopard like beasts.

It would make a fantastic centrepiece on a table and is designed to be seen in the round.

Italian, late 19th, early 20th century. Unmarked.

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	width	height	depth
	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Base	11 3⁄8" 29 cms

Stock: 15438

A late 18th century Statuary and Brocatelle marble chimneypiece, inlaid with a Greek key design on the frieze. The finely carved tablet depicts a goddess, perhaps Persephone, holding a cornucopia brimming with fruit, including a pineapple; something of a luxury in 18th century Britain. Beside her, a putto holds aloft an ear of wheat as he rides a lion pulling the goddess' chariot. In the distance, a small temple sits atop a hill, very much like the temple follies seen in 18th century parkland. Flanking the frieze are two elegantly carved endblocks, depicting a putto holding torches - another symbol of Persephone. These are supported by gently tapered jambs, inlaid with flutes of brocatelle marble and terminating in plain footblocks.
English, Circa 1790 with restorations.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	74 13⁄16" 190 cms	60 13⁄16" 154.5 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms
Internal	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	47" 119.5 cms

Stock: 15442

An elegant Regency white Statuary and Spanish Brocatelle marble fireplace. The wide moulded shelf rests above a plain frieze set with a Brocatelle panel, oval paterae on the endblocks and further panels of Bracatelle are set into the jambs beneath acanthus capitals. The opening too is framed wth Brocatelle marble.
English, circa 1820.

Link to: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	76 1⁄8" 193.3 cms	54 3⁄8" 138.1 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms
Internal	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms

Stock: 15437

A French Carrara marble Louis XV style Rococo fireplace surround. The serpentine breakfront shelf rests above a fielded freeze centred by a large foliate cartouche echoed on the endblocks which sit above angled, panelled jambs supported on sturdy footblocks.
French, late 19th century.

Link to: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	42 3⁄8" 107.6 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Internal	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms

Stock: 14934

An early 20th century, Regency style, eight branch gilt brass chandelier, hung from an ornate ring, the arms emanating from a bulbous stem terminating in a reverse pineapple,finial.
French, circa 1910.

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	Diameter	Drop
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms