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Stock: 9726

A tall but slim Victorian Tinos Verde Marble Baroque style antique Bolection fireplace surround. English, late 19th century.

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Stock: 14574

A small Neoclassical style cast iron and brass Victorian fire basket the tall, possibly later associated, fire back with a depiction of 'The Fox and The Stork' from Aesop's Fables, the low three barred grate, surmounted by a pair of brass capped finials flanked by brass shoulders above a decoratively cut serpentine apron, is supported by tapered column standards topped by further capped finials. English, late 19th century.

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Stock: 14852

A set of three very smart Victorian steel and brass antique fire irons consisting of a poker, a pair of tongs and a shovel all with elegant turned knopped finial handles, brass bands to the shafts, the shaped shovel with a central cut decoration. English late 19th century.

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Stock: 13730

A large Thomas Elsley, English Regency style cast iron and brass three barred antique fire grate, surmounted by a pair of brass cluster finials, with a simple scrolled apron, supported on a pair of shapely brass legs. English, circa 1860.

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Stock: 11066

A fine Italian Baroque Bolection fireplace carved in warm Sarrancolin Marble. The simple, deep moulded shelf rests above the inset moulded bolection which is supported on elegantly shaped footblocks.
Italian, mid 19th century.

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Stock: 14451

An early 20th century cut glass and gilt metal neoclassical style fifteen candle chandelier in two tiers with glass drip trays and swags set on a gilt metal scrolling frame. The candles are not wired for electricity but there are five light bulbs set within the scrolling arms that are. English 20th century

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Stock: 14354

An elegant Regency antique fireplace surround in cool grey veined Pencil Marble with a plain frieze flanked by a pair of substantial bullseye endblocks above round attached columns fronting the jambs.
English, early 19th century.
Shown here with insert SNo 14334 not included.

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Stock: 14879

A large and elegant Victorian fireplace surround in Black Kilkenny Fossil Marble the large corbels, which support the wide moulded shelf, are incised with ivy leaf decoration. Scottish, circa 1870.

Shown here with fire grate SNo 14851 not included.

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Stock: 14851

An attractive and sturdy, cast iron and brass Louis XVI style antique Edwardian fire basket raised on tapering brass peg feet and with four brass pineapple finials mounted above the shaped and decorative grate front.
English, circa 1910.

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Stock: 9151

A tall mahogany chimneypiece in the Renaissance Revival manner. The richly carved deep frieze, featuring fruit filled cornucopia, is centred by a pair of mythical birds and a gadrooned urn with stylised mythical serpents either side. Tall reeded tapering columns topped by Corinthian capitals front the jambs. English, circa 1890.

Shown here with andirons SNo 12784 not included.

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Stock: 14877

A wonderfully detailed early Victorian antique folding map of London and its environs in vibrant original hand-colour with original slipcase as pictured.
Published by G. F. Crutchley, 81 Fleet St London, 1st January 1841.

The map spans the River Thames from Windsor to Gravesend incorporating all of modern day London including, to name but a few, Fulham and Chelsea, Hampstead, Richmond and The City of London. It clearly shows the great parks of London and is also annotated with fascinating historical references, such as the Millbank Prison at Pimlico designed by Jeremy Bentham as a Panopticon. Also shown are a number of central London farms still in use in the mid-19th century as the city expanded around them. Take a step back in time and let the mind's eye wander through a byegone age.
English, published in 1841.

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Stock: 14520

A large and attractive 20th century, neoclassical style two tier, twelve branch glass chandelier hung throughout with beads, pendants and drops.
English, late 20th century.

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Stock: 14551

A very fine and large cast iron and parcel gilt decorated antique Victorian fire grate in the Gothic Revival manner. The backplate is cast with five roundels behind the two barred grate with plain and spiral twist bars and knobbed cone finials. The grate is supported on an a pair of tall ornate andirons surmounted by cup and cover finials with foliate gilt decoration. The four sided gilt mounted stems are embellished with rope-twist bound foliate roundels above gilt detail on the splayed feet. English, late 19th century.

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Stock: 8449

A pair of Baroque models of angels kneeling at prayer cast in plaster.
French late 18th century.

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Stock: 14821

An attractive and neat mid Victorian cast iron and brass antique fire grate. The shaped backplate centred by a sunburst, the grate with six vertical bars is supported by a pair of slim turned standards with brass ball finials.
English, mid 19th century.

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Stock: 14553

Early nineteenth-century Italian chimneypiece in Carrara marble, with a richly carved under-shelf and frieze. The recessed frieze has a central tablet carved with Venus in repose; this is flanked by two pairs of birds, each bearing a garland in their beaks. The endblocks are carved with large Medusa masks which rest on engaged fluted columns with delicately carved capitals of curling acanthus leaves. The fluted columned jambs gently widen to finish in an elegant base.
Italian, circa 1830.

Shown here with fire grate SNo 14629.

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Stock: 14633

A highly ornate antique stone fireplace surround in the Louis XV Rococo style exuberantly carved throughout with abundant floral and foliate detail. The moulded shelf with bead and reel edging rests above an embellished serpentine frieze centred by a stylised palmette cartouche with floral trails flanked by scrolled acanthus corners. Small shell cartouche top tapering panels on the jambs which rest on sturdy footblocks.
Photos before restoration. French mid to late 19th century.

Shown here with replica fire grate SNo 10920 not included in the price.

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Stock: 14714

A large and majestic twin columned Carrara Marble antique chimneypiece. The deeply moulded cornice shelf rests above a panelled frieze, with a central plain shield surrounded by scrolled foliate detail, flanked by square paterae endblocks. The free standing tapering columns, with exhuberantly carved capitals, are raised on substantial buttoned footblocks. Belgian, late 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 14374 not included.

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Stock: 8232

A very smart English Regency specimen marble chimneypiece in Kilkenny Black Fossil Marble inlaid with Breche Violette marble panels which have been cut and opened like a book to reveal symetrical veining. The oval plaque on the frieze and the flanking end blocks are of inlaid Convent Sienna Marble. English, circa 1820.

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Stock: 14865

A wide Arts and Crafts polished steel fire barred antique Edwardian fire basket very much in the manner Charles Voysey(1857 – 1941). The large grate, mounted with a pair of Baroque style finials, is supported to the front by a pair of tall elegant spire andirons raised on square columned legs.
English, circa 1900.

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Stock: 14862

A small and exquisite Queen Anne style cast iron and brass antique fire basket in the Baroque manner. The grate with burnished turned fire bars is supported to the front by a pair of very attractively styled brass standards with spiral columns, under conical gadrooned finials, on slender cabriole legs terminating in pad feet.
English, late 19th century.

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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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Stock: 14357

A finely carved Georgian style Statuary Marble mid Victorian antique fireplace surround. The moulded shelf rests above the delicately veined Sienna Marble fluted freeze, with alternating medallions, centred by a large garlanded urn tablet. Oval rosette paterae adorn the endblocks above tall stylised flambeau urn and vase carved detail on the jambs. English, mid 19th century.

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Stock: 7788

A Baroque style antique fireplace surround in softly hued variegated Languedoc Marble with round brass side vents. The prominent, slow arched fireplace opening, with raised triangle detail carved on the spandrels, is flanked by recessed jambs supported on curved footblocks.
French, mid 19th century.

Shown here with fire basket 14851 not included.

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