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Stock: 16926

A set of six Victorian Aesthetic mahogany dining chairs, designed by Bruce Talbert (1839-1881) for Gillows.
These chairs are reupholstered and ready for covering in a fabric of your choice.

English, c.1870. Each chair stamped Gillows on the back leg.

Notes: Bruce James Talbert was a pre-eminent Scottish architect and designer renowned for his furniture designs. He moved away from the heaviness often associated with the Victorian period, and embraced a lighter more innovative approach to styles such as the Gothic Revival and the Aesthetic Movement.

	Width	Height	Depth
Each	17 13⁄16" 45.3 cms	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	19" 48.3 cms

Stock: 15608

A charming stained glass window, part of a much larger set we have for sale. The window has inset panels of coloured glass and is centred by a central circular inset of painted glass, depicting a bird on a branch.

English, c.1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28 3⁄8" 72.2 cms	27 1⁄4" 69.4 cms	2" 5.2 cms

Stock: 16923

A timelessly elegant Tudor Revival chimneypiece in a soft brown Derbyshire fossil. The substantial and thick shelf rests above the frieze which frames the slow arch typical of this style. The chamfered jambs are supported by plain footblocks.

English, c.1860.

View our collection of: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	52" 132 cms	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms
Internal	30 7⁄8" 78.5 cms	37 3⁄8" 94.9 cms
	49 3⁄16" 125 cms

Stock: 16993

An 18th century Japanese Imari vase of octagonal form. The hand-painted decoration depicts a vase with flowering branches in blue and red, highlighted in gold.
A wonderfully decorative vase, or equally can be converted to a table lamp in our workshops.

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Stock: 17032

A patinated bronze model of a rhyton, after the Antique, the terminal in the form of a bull's head, with a looping handle, on a circular socle.

English, c.1800. Notes: In the 2nd century BCE, the Minoans developed a ceremonial drinking vessel called a rhyton, developed from the Greek word rheo, 'to flow'. These vessels are characterised by their double opening; when liquid is poured into the top it flowed through a smaller opening. In antiquity, this was used for aerating wine, or pouring liquid into a shallow bowl to offer as a libation to the Gods.

	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	6" 15.3 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 12956

A pair of charming gilt brass wall lights in the Regency manner with twin scrolled arms and anthemion decoration. English, mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 16682

A large marble sculpture of Venus after Thorvaldsen's 'Venus with the Apple'. Likely Italian in origin, this sculpture is a fine copy of Thorvaldsen's celebrated work, and encapsulates the elegance of classical sculpture with the contrapposto figure of Venus, captured moments after she wins the golden apple over the maligned goddesses Juno and Minerva.

Italian, late 19th century with restorations.

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	Width	Height
	13" 33 cms	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms

Stock: 6645

A very fine Italian secretary cabinet, bookcase in burr walnut, the epitome of the Italian Baroque. This grand cabinet is surmounted by a broken pediment, mounted with three giltwood figures, over a pair of glazed doors enclosing open shelves and interior lined in blue silk. This rests on the bureau base, the fall veneered with a particularly dramatic piece of burr walnut, which reveals a fitted interior of three small drawers and open compartments. Beneath this, there are three drawers of arc-en-arbalète or crossbow form.

Italian, possibly the Veneto, c.1740.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	46 1⁄8" 117 cms	100" 254 cms	24 3⁄16" 61.5 cms

Stock: 17020

A set of eight William IV mahogany dining chairs with drop in upholstered seats. The backs with panels of flame mahogany, framed by cross band walnut, beneath gadrooned cresting, set above scrolling foliate carved centre rails, all raised on simple sabre legs.

Comprising six dining chairs and two open arm carvers.

English, circa 1835.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Chairs	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms
Carvers	20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms

Stock: 14238

A handsome 19th century French Louis XVI style carved Carrara Marble fireplace. The simple panelled frieze centred by a diamond shaped panel is flanked by a pair of square endblocks supported on substantial, scrolled console jambs with acanthus detail, terminating in large lion paws on moulded footblocks.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 7⁄8" 144.5 cms	39 3⁄8" 100.2 cms	15 13⁄16" 40.2 cms
Internal	44 1⁄4" 112.5 cms	29 5⁄8" 75.3 cms
Outer footblock	56 7⁄8" 144.5 cms

Stock: 14731

A Victorian corbel fireplace in a softly mottled statuary marble. The wide shelf rests over a plain frieze, and is supported by acanthus carved corbels, embellished with a floral detail on each. The floral carving continues in low relief down the panelled jambs.

English, late 19th century.

Provenance: From a house on Ladbroke Square, London.

View our collection of: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	width	height	depth
	69 11⁄16" 177 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms
	35" 89 cms	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms

Stock: 17008

One of a pair of fine French Louis XVI fireplaces, in lightly veined white statuary marble. The panelled frieze with a central rectangular tablet, overlaid with finely carved laurel garlands is flanked by a pair of foliate paterae corner blocks. Supported on fluted, scrolling console jambs with acanthus, bell flower and husk decoration over moulded and carved footblocks.
These fireplaces retain their original cast iron inserts with finley cast putti playing musical instruments set within oval paterae surrounded by ribbon tied laurel and trellis panels.

French, circa 1880.

View our collection of: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄4" 145.5 cms	44 1⁄4" 112.5 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms
Insert opening	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms

Stock: 16947

A charming hand-painted and ebonised four seater chair-back settee. The top rail is decorated with four pastoral scenes within oval vignettes, the backs centred by a scallop decoration and the uprights and arms are decorated with trailing foliage and berries. The overstuffed seat is covered in a silk damask, but could be re-covered in a fabric of your choice and is supported by the turned legs, painted with further foliate decoration. A wonderful survival!
This settee can be recovered in a fabric of your choice.

English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	65 3⁄8" 166 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms

Stock: 17009

A fine gilt brass, three branch ceiling light. The three outward swept scrolling branches, each fitted with a frosted glass rose petal shade, gathered together on a central column terminating with a single up light, that illuminates the frosted and cut glass dome. This is supported on a turned brass ring with applied Rococo foliate decoration, from which is hung a fringe of cut crystal drops. All suspended from an ornately cast top hook with its original decorative chain.

English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Drop
	22" 56 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms
With chain	34 1⁄4" 87 cms

Stock: 16577

A gorgeous Thomas Jeckyll Aesthetic movement cast iron fireplace insert, manufactured by Barnard, Bishop and Barnard, cast trademark verso. The iron is cast with Japanese inspired circular rosettes on a geometric ground. Flanked by blue and white tiles, decorated with stylised flowers and foliage, set within an octagonal borders. This fireplace insert has an integral adjustable hood for controlling the draw of the chimney.

English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	36 1⁄8" 91.6 cms	2 5⁄8" 6.5 cms

Stock: 17045

A small, low and charming Victorian arched fireplace in the Egyptian Revival style. This beautiful chimneypiece is carved from pure white statuary marble and has a moulded shelf which is supported by Egyptian palm capital pilasters. This is centred by moulded spandrels and a shell keystone.
The height of this piece suggests it might once have been installed underneath a window, or perhaps just a very tall overmantel! Perfect for a room with a limited ceiling height.

English, c.1840.

View our collection of: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	70" 177.8 cms	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Internal	35" 89 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms

Stock: 17044

A large Victorian Kilkenny marble arched fireplace with star decoration. This large and grand fireplace is carved from a striking black Kilkenny marble, with white fossils dramatically set against a black background. The large moulded shelf rest on the generous spandrel jambs with chamfered corners, carved with a Star of David decoration, which flanks the keystone of cartouche form, mounted above the generously moulded arched opening.

English, c.1860.
Measurements footblock to footblock 185.3cm View our collection of: antique Firebacks

	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 1⁄4" 198.8 cms	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	15" 38 cms
Internal	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 17041

A large and antique Victorian arched fireplace in a soft grey St Anne marble. The moulded shelf rests on very simply spandrel panelled jambs, centred by a keystone. The whole rests on plain, generous footblocks.

View our collection of: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	72 3⁄16" 183.5 cms	46 1⁄2" 118.2 cms	12 1⁄2" 31.7 cms
Internal	37 11⁄16" 95.7 cms	36 1⁄4" 92.2 cms

Stock: 17043

A small French chimneypiece in an unusual, creamy orange marble with coral veining. The softly rounded opening is surrounded by a panelled frieze and jambs, the simplicity of which lets the marble sing.

French, late 19th century.

The depth can be reduced if desired.

View our collection of: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	15 11⁄16" 39.8 cms
Internal	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 17042

An elegant 19th century fireplace in beautifully veined pencil statuary marble. The wide shelf rests over a frieze with a slow arch, which is flanked by wide plain jambs mounted with applied shield decorations.

English or Scottish, c.1850.

View our collection of: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄4" 181 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	10 7⁄8" 27.8 cms
Internal	40 3⁄8" 102.6 cms	39" 99 cms

Stock: 16892

A exceptionally rare complete set of Minton tiles for a fireplace. This set of fifteen transferware tiles are all stamped Minton on the verso, and form a complete set of fireplace interior tiles. The top tiles depict putti assuming the guises of different disciplines: the apothecary, the musician, the stone mason, the geographer and the astronomer. The side tiles depict large putti playing instruments surrounded by arabesque foliate decoration.

English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Thickness
External	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	30 3⁄16" 76.6 cms	0 3⁄8" 1 cms
Internal	30 3⁄16" 76.6 cms	24 1⁄8" 61.3 cms
Each tile	6" 15.3 cms	6" 15.3 cms

Stock: 15923

A rare George III, Gothic revival cast iron hob grate. The wrought iron three bar, bow fronted fire grate with log spikes and a round central bar, is flanked by a pair of cluster column pilasters with brass detailing. Below a gadrooned back plate, which is centred with a rectangular panel.

English, circa 1770.

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	width	height	depth
	34 13⁄16" 88.3 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 8787

One of a pair of large Victorian, Neo-Gothic, oak and parcel gilt mirrors. (also See, Sno 8786). The pointed arched mirror plate is flanked by a pair of turned columns with carved Gothic stiff leaf capitals, topped off with tall spires, over quatrefoil lower corner blocks. Each mirror rises to a pointed pediment, decorated with carved Gothic crockets and parcel gilt mouldings, centred by a tall slender octagonal finial.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 11⁄16" 103.5 cms	86" 218.5 cms	5" 12.7 cms

Stock: 14710

A large stylish Art Deco chrome plated six branch French ceiling light, The central stem is adorned with typically Art Deco geometric brackets, supporting the branches with their original frosted glass, uplighter shades, embellished with moulded glass icicles. French, circa 1930.

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	Diameter	Drop
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 16975

A large and unusually tall, Louis XV Rococo fireplace, in a softly mottled rosso Verona marble. The serpentine shelf rests over the paneled frieze, centred by a scallop shell cartouche. This is echoed by two further scallop shells on the endblocks, supported by scrolled and paneled consol jambs.

French or Belgian, circa 1890.

View our collection of: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 5⁄8" 161.5 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms
Outer footblock	62 3⁄16" 158 cms

Stock: 16976

A small French Louis XV style pompadour fireplace in finely vianed verde antico marble. Beneath the moulded serpentine shelf, the paneled frieze is centred by an oval paterae, flanked by paneled endblocks above canted jambs on simple footblocks.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	44 11⁄16" 113.5 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms	14 1⁄4" 36.2 cms
Internal	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms
Outer footblock	42 7⁄8" 109 cms

Stock: 16087

A fine French cast brass Fireplace fender, in the form of an architectural balustrade. Above the central section, lie a pair of well modeled recumbent greyhounds, these are flanked by a pair of swaged flame urns, to the outer ends.

French, mid 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Fenders, Firescreens and Nursery Guards

	Width	Height	Depth
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms
Outer footblock	62 3⁄16" 158 cms

Stock: 17010

A pair of finely painted Japanese imari vases with covers. The vases are hand-painted in underglaze cobalt blue and onglaze enamels, highlighted in gold, with a high degree of naturalism, with vignettes of landscapes bordered by floral decoration. The covers are mounted with foo dog finials.

Japanese, Meiji period (late 19th century).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 16984

A well proportioned, Louis XV Rococo fireplace in subtly mottled Carrara marble. The serpentine paneled frieze is centred by a foliate cartouche flanked by shell endblock over scrolling console jambs, all set beneath the moulded serpentine shelf.

French, late 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	40" 101.5 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms
Outer footblock	49 5⁄8" 126 cms

Stock: 16954

An exceptionally fine Brazilian rosewood and lacquer cabinet bookcase incorporating a suite of five chinoiserie lacquered panels. It is most likely that this piece of furniture was designed as a celebration of Eastern influence on European furniture making. The japanned panels depict mountainous landscapes, figures riding through the landscape, pagodas and boats against a deep red ground. The style is reminiscent of 17th century Chinese lacquerwork, although certainly made in England by a specialist japanner. Lacquerwork of this quality was highly prized, so we believe this piece of furniture was designed around the panels, with a nod to Chinese forms, namely the four pagoda finials to the top. The rest of the cabinet embodies the elegant restraint of the Regency period, with a serpentine backboard, and three doors enclosed a fitted interior.
The fine interior includes adjustable shelves and a drop down writing slope in tooled green leather, which reveals pigeonholes in birdseye maple. The ormolu mounts are synonymous with the work of Bond Street cabinetmaker George Oakley (c.1760–1840) and the use of fine rosewood, and excellent construction, are all signatures of his work.
A London cabinet maker, attributed to George Oakley.

English, circa 1820.

Provenance: Sotheby's Fine English Furniture sale, London, Friday 15th and Friday 22nd February 1991, lot 304

	Width	Height	Depth
	56 3⁄8" 143.2 cms	56" 142.3 cms	17 5⁄8" 44.7 cms

Stock: 16937

A pretty Victorian Aesthetic movement gilded and ebonised writing desk or bonheur du Jour. The top with an ebonised balustrade of turned spindles above a pair of doors with hand painted panels, framed by gilt mouldings and Amboyna wood. The panels depict a pair of medieval loves exchanging love notes by dove, on an architectural Gothic background. Opening the doors reveals a delicate interior in birch and satin birch, with fretwork valencing and further fretwork to the front of the letter rack, over two rosewood draws with flush boxwood knobs. The draw to the base contains an adjustable, tooled leather writing slope and to the right, a pen holder and the original glass inkwell. All supported on slender ebonised, carved and gilded turned legs, with ceramic casters, separated by a stretcher and shelf.

English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	51 3⁄8" 130.5 cms	21" 53.4 cms

Stock: 16969

A very large late sixteenth century 'Nonsuch' chest with extensive marquetry and original hinges and lock. This vast chest conforms to the 'Nonsuch' model, with dovetailed boards and marquetry inspired by the architectural prints of the period. Extant examples of these chests are very rare, so we are delighted to have it one our collection.

English, late 16th century with separate 17th century base.

Notes: Chests such as these were sometimes thought to have been made in Germany, but it is now known that they were made in London - particularly Southwark - by German and Netherlandish immigrants from about 1560. In the twentieth century, these chests gained the name of 'Nonsuch chests' as the marquetry was wrongly thought to depict Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace in Surrey.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	75 3⁄16" 191 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms

Stock: 17012

A pair of hexagonal, Meiji period, Imari lidded vases. Beautifully hand-painted with stylised floral and geometric decoration, executed in underglaze cobalt blue, together with iron red and green onglaze enamel, highlighted in gold.

Japanese, Late Meiji period, Circa, 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	20 1⁄4" 51.5 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 17005

An elegant and stylish antique Louis XIV fireplace, in beautifully veined verde antico marble. This fireplace is in the French Baroque style, with a slow arched, bolection moulded opening with simple paneled spandrels, all set beneath the nicely moulded shelf.

French, mid-19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Baroque Chimneypieces inc English, Italian, French, Flemish Bolection fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄4" 135.3 cms	42 13⁄16" 108.6 cms	14 7⁄8" 37.8 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms
Outer footblock	51" 129.6 cms

Stock: 16983

A handsome George III mahogany chest of drawers. With three short drawers over three graduated long drawers with brass handles and escutcheons, beneath the simply moulded top, all supported on ogee bracket feet.

English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms