Stock: 16488

A fine George III giltwood and carton-pierre wall mirror in the manner of James and Robert Adam. The slender frame encloses the rectangular plate and is surmounted by opposing griffins centred by a slender urn and ears of wheat.

English, c.1770. Provenance: The Estate of the late Sir George Dowty (1901-1975, inventor, engineer and businessman) and Lady Marguerite Dowty, thence by family descent.

Notes: Carton-Pierre is effectively a type of papier mache, popularised in the 18th century for its ability to be moulded to create adornments for mirrors or even ceiling cornices, as a cheaper alternative to plaster.

Final image credit: Office of Robert and James Adam, 'Design for a Pier Glass, 1772, Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London”.

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	Width	Height
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	64 5⁄8" 164 cms

Stock: 16191

The most charming gilt gesso mirrored hanging shelves. The arched mirror plate is beautifully adorned with ferns, convolvulus and foxgloves that are exquisitely modelled around the frame. The rods supporting the three shelves terminate in foxglove flowerheads.

The shelves embody the Victorian obsession with ferns, in a period known as the 'fern craze'; which saw a widespread fascination in identifying, collecting and cultivating the plant.

English, mid-19th century.

Near pair with stock no. 16190.

Photo before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 16184

A very ornate Adam style oval girandole mirror. The gilt gesso frame is adorned with a fan and bellflower decoration very much in the Adam style. The mounted triple girandole sconce is of scrolling foliate form and this is echoed in the surmount, where putti hold sprays of laurel over a floral garland.

English, c.1870.

Provenance: The Grange Goathland.

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		Height
		47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 16494

A fine pair of Florentine giltwood oval wall mirrors. The frames are profusely decorated with acanthus leaves and flowers, and topped with a small crest.
Original mercury plates.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	2 3⁄16" 5.5 cms

Stock: 16015

A superb pair of Northern Italian hall chairs in walnut, partially ebonised, inlaid with bone. Each chair has a foliate scrollwork top rail over barley twist supports which enclose beautifully inlaid panels with a number of mythological creatures shown within an arabesque border. The inlay continues below the seat and on the stretcher, which is supporting the four foliate clasped, turned legs.

Northern Italian, possibly Milan. c.1700.

Provenance: Label reads Ex Sir George Saville Lumley, Durham Castle.

Notes:
The hall chair originated in Renaissance Italy, where the 'sgabello' chair graced the entrance hallways of grand palazzi in the 16th century. They remained popular in Italy and came to England with the Grand Tour in the 18th century.

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	width	height	depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 16496

A pair of fine and large 19th Century Imari vases and covers. With a bell shaped cover, topped by an onion finial and finished with a flat overhanging rim. The finials are decorated with flower heads, between lattice panels repeated to the rim, the bell formed body with blooms and trees against a flower filled ground. The rim decoration repeated to the raised collars of the vases. The bodies with rounded shoulders as they taper to a raised foot rim. The shoulders decorated with flowers and scrolling foliage whilst the bodies are decorated with arcaded panels, filled with rising flowers. The reserves against a vibrant ground of flowers and foliage. The lower bodies with rising arcades filled with flowers and overlapping leaves. The foot rim with scrolling motifs.

Japanese, c.1850.

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	Diameter	Height
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

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Stock: 15994

A set of Regency fire tools in steel, of very simple design with a pierced wheel motif on the shovel.

English, c.1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16064

A large early 20th century Chinese watercolour painting of birds and flowers on paper. A kingfisher, a finch and a wasp are depicted in the floral landscape of blooming peonies.

Chinese, probably c.1900

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25" 63.6 cms	48" 122 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 16330

An elegant late 19th century insert with Aesthetic movement metalwork, and neoclassical tiles in a cream and green colourway.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	38" 96.5 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 16329

A Victorian cast iron register grate with an arched opening. Perfect paired with either an arched fireplace, or one with a rectangular opening.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16471

A Rococo overmantel mirror in gilt gesso, with a moulded frame that has been beautifully gilded and slightly distressed to reveal the warm red bole underneath. This is surmounted by a Rocaille crest.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	64 1⁄4" 163.2 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 16193

An unusual set of polished steel fire tools with blacked ornately cast handles and a pierced shovel with the same finish.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 16499

A large Parian ware figure of Omphale after a model by Antonio Canova. The Lydian Queen is depicted seated on a throne in the antique style, with a lion's pelt on her head as she leans against Heracles' club.

French, mid-19th century.

Notes: In Greek mythology, Omphale was the daughter of Jardanos and Queen of Lydia after her marriage to Tmolos, an early Lydian king. After his death, she continued to rule alone. She bought Heracles out of slavery and he served her for three years, and she bore him a son, Lamos.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms	5 3⁄8" 13.8 cms

Stock: 16414

A set of Victorian brass fire tools of excellent quality. The fluted handles are mounted on to slender shafts, and the tool stand is pierced with an Aesthetic movement design.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16345

A fine Victorian six-light gilt brass and cut-glass tent and waterfall chandelier. The floriate pierced scrolling girdle issuing acanthus and beaded scrolling arms with urn nozzles and open scrolling coronas, the central plain stem surmounted with a similarly decorated pierced corona, the whole hung and strung with twin faceted beaded pointed lustre drops and strings of faceted graduated beaded chains.

English, c.1860.

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	Diameter	Drop
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 16378

A rare 18th century French Louis XV chimneypiece carved from Belgian black marble. The moulded serpentine shelf rests over a dramatic Rococo frieze, carved with a central rocaille motif and foliate flourishes. This is flanked by very unusual endblocks centred by a rose, over canted Rococo jambs.

Belgian, c.1770.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 7⁄8" 175 cms	46 11⁄16" 118.5 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Internal	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms	40" 101.5 cms

Stock: 16208

A super simple and very stylish French carrara marble fireplace, in the bolection style. Unlike English bolections, this fireplace has the useful addition of a shelf making it a practical choice when you are looking to decorate a mantelpiece.

French circa 1900.

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	width	height	depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	39" 99 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms

Stock: 15906

A large and imposing fireplace in Belgian black marble. This striking fireplace has a very deep shelf which rests on freestanding fluted columns which are mounted with ormolu capitals and collars, which echo the subtle ormolu embellishments on the frieze. This frames the stepped bolection ingrounds. A true statement piece.

Belgian, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms
Internal

Stock: 15549

A fine Victorian fender in bright steel and bronze, with a rope twist bar, and ornately cast brass brackets.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16486

A striking Napoleon III ebonised and parcel gilt mirror, with a bound laurel frame and acanthus corners enclosing marginal plates. The mirror has a beautifully modelled cartouche and laurel surmount.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	59 3⁄8" 150.8 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 16401

A fine 19th century copy of the Sosibios vase by Handyside & Co in cast iron, with its original stepped plinth base. This was originally retailed by the Handyside foundry at £4 in 1880.

Notes:
This cast iron urn is modelled on a white marble urn from antiquity by Sosibios, a Greek sculptor working in Rome around 50 BC. An English version of the model was later in the 1874 catalogue of A. Handyside and Co. of Derby and London. A set of four painted cast-iron urns of this model sold at Christie's Wrotham Park, 4 June 1991 lot 120. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms
Overall		57 1⁄8" 145 cms

Stock: 16238

A large Victorian gilt gesso overmantel mirror with gently arched top supported by spiral turned columns and a slender barley twist moulding, with some foliate embellishments.

Victorian, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	62 7⁄8" 159.7 cms	62 7⁄8" 159.7 cms	2 13⁄16" 7.2 cms

Stock: 9390

A set of six early 18th century Botanical Prints attributed to the artist Elizabeth Blackwell, from the book 'A Curious Herbal' in original colour & published by Hans Sloane Publishers, in 1737. Framed in oak and double mounted.

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	width	height	depth
	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	22" 56 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 16491

A fine Irish Regency convex mirror. The original convex plate is enclosed within a reeded ebony slip, which is bordered by an ornate giltwood ropetwist frame and mounted with acanthus scrollwork and twin candleholders. Most unusually, the surmount depicts a stag resting under an oak tree.

Irish, c.1820.

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	Width	Height
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 15807

A 19th century brass convex fender in the Rococo taste with traces of the original gilding, with foliate scrollwork and rocaille motifs.

French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 16469

A fine George III giltwood and gesso wall mirror in the Chinese Chippendale style. The rectangular mirror plate is enclosed by a delicate frame embellished with c scrolls and trailing garlands, surmounted by a palm leaf pagoda.

English, c.1765.

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	Width	Height
	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms

Stock: 16381

A fine Adam style brass & steel serpentine fronted fire basket. The three barred grate is munted with engraved brass shoulders and elegant urnular finials.The basket is raised on tall and slender tapered legs, which are centred by a pierced paterae apron.

English, Circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	26" 66 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.3 cms

Stock: 16029

A bronze Empire period fender of exceptional quality, with exquisitely cast ormolu mounts.

French, early 19th century.

Provenance: From the estate of the late Joe Constantine.

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	Width	Height
	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 16335

A charming cast iron tiled fireplace with transfer printed and tinted tiles, decorated with scrollwork, poppies and dragonflies.

English, c.1900

	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	51 5⁄8" 131 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 16444

A large Victorian fire basket of unusual form. The pedimented back is cast with a floral design and the generous grate is mounted on scrolled feet, and the protruding andirons are reminiscent of the designs of Christopher Dresser.

English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 16317

A very large and grand Victorian Aesthetic Movement gilt gesso overmantel mirror. The top of the mirror is surmounted by a latticed gallery very much in the Aesthetic Movement taste, with a broken pediment. This is mounted over a bold egg and dart moulding, and supported on slender spindle pilasters with foliate capitals, which enclose foliate spandrels and a silvered plate.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height
	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	71 11⁄16" 182 cms

Stock: 16485

A very fine George III wall mirror, with a delicate giltwood frame embodying the lightness of the Chippendale style, with slender c scrolls, trailing foliage and an elegant crest. The frame encloses a very foxed mercury plate.

English, c.1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	28" 71 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16128

A fine gilt gesso George III wall mirror with delicate carving. The intricate frame has fine detailing throughout, including a well carved and delicate crest of foliate form and flowering vines and foliage within a framework of c scrolls.
English, c.1770.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms

Stock: 16468

A very unusual George III Rococo wall mirror. The giltwood frame is carved with a wonderfully organic design, with foliate flourishes, trailing flowers and fruit, but the most unusual detail being the asymmetrical interlocking c scrolls to the lower portion of the frame.

English, c.1770.

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	Width	Height
	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	51 5⁄8" 131 cms

Stock: 16440

A very fine set of three large giltwood wall sconces in the Régence style, ornately carved with foliate flourishes and palmettes, and swan neck twin branches.

French, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	11" 28 cms