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Stock: 6629

A pair of unusual glass 'bag' chandeliers. The central cut glass stem is mounted with swan neck arms, which are studded with floral appliques. These hold the bowl shaped 'bag', inside which are the four light fittings, concealed by cut and faceted drops.
We envisage these chandeliers as the perfect addition to a bedroom, hallway or even a bathroom!

English, c.1950.

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	Diameter	Drop
	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms

Stock: 16777

A fine and large antique cast iron fireback with the coat of arms for the House of Lorraine. The coat of arms is bordered by a ribboned laurel wreath and flanked by angels or zephyrs floating above the clouds, blowing horns and holding a crown aloft. A fantastically rendered piece of heraldry, and the perfect addition to a large fireplace.

French, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 16726

A pair of antique cast iron panels with brass scrolling Rococo decoration bordering oval bronze panels depicting frolicking putti within a pastoral landscape.

English, circa 1900.

Perfect for lining the sides of a fireplace interior, and can be used with a number of our decorative back panels.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14" 35.6 cms	37 1⁄4" 94.7 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 16768

A large 19th century Georgian style polished steel fender in the manner of Robert Adam with a pierced fluted gallery above Vitruvian scrolls, framed by beading above and below. The pierced panels are separated by square columns topped off with elegant Adam style urns.

English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	61" 155 cms	11" 28 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 16632

A fine 18th century giltwood console table. The gilded surface is wonderfully worn, with the warm red bole coming through. The frieze has low relief decoration very much aligned with the Venetian tradition, and this frames the faux marble top (later). The scrolled legs are supported by large baluster feet and united by a scrollwork stretcher embellished with bellflowers.

Northern Italian, c.1700.

The current top, painted in a green faux marble finish, can be replaced with your choice of marble top if desired, although the current top is quite charming and probably 19th century in date.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 15077

A large and grand Victorian cast iron fire surround of elaborate design. The stepped moulded shelf, with a fine enriched undershelf and fluted panel, rests above an arched frieze with a central shield cartouche flanked by opposing dragons. The jambs adorned with bold scrolled consoles supported on sturdy footblocks. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 1⁄4" 176 cms	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Internal	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 16692

A beautiful 18th century Venetian mirror with original mercury mirror plate. The gilded frame takes a loosely organic form and interprets the French Rococo style, with a rather more traditional frame boldly embellished with the addition of organic c scrolls and foliate flourishes to the edges.

Venetian, c.1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 14592

A large and grand Gothic Revival chimneypiece carved from Belgian blue stone. The deeply moulded cornice shelf rests on the monumental frieze, which is carved from one large piece of stone. This is decorated with a crisply rendered central crest and coat of arms, with the motto "ex-fide-fortis" (from faith comes strength), this is flanked by a pair of floral paterae in the form of roses beneath arching tracery and foliate decoration, on a heavily tooled ground. This sits on slender Gothic console jambs, over moulded footblocks.

Belgian, circa 1890.

The weight of this fireplace requires careful structural consideration.

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	Width	Height	depth
external	79 1⁄4" 201.5 cms	86" 218.5 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms
internal	55 1⁄2" 141 cms	55 7⁄8" 142 cms

Stock: 16749

A pair of small, pleasantly distressed Victorian Aesthetic period wall mirrors, with the diamond registration mark for 1878. Each gilt and ebonised frame is decorated with painted stylised foliage, fruit and flowers in the typically Aesthetic movement style. The central painted tablet at the top of the frame sits below a pediment which is flanked by a balustrade and painted frieze, all topped off with turned finials.

English, circa 1878.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	2 5⁄8" 6.5 cms

Stock: 16748

A fine George III period mahogany silver table, in the manner of Thomas Chippendale. This table has a beautiful colour and patina, the figured mahogany rectangular top with plain gallery is set over a finely pierced fretwork frieze and spandrels of scrolling acanthus leaf, supported on square legs with block feet, which retain their original brass castors, these are separated by the arching, x-form fretwork stretcher, decorated with further scrolling acanthus leaf decoration, all centred with a single turned finial.

English, circa 1770.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 3⁄8" 77.3 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 16739

A very fine Adam Revival pine chimneypiece from the Edwardian period. The shelf, with its dentil undershelf is mounted over the beautifully carved frieze, studded with ram's heads hung with garlands of bellflowers. The slender jambs are carved with urns and more bellflowers. The opening is framed by a simple bead and reel moulding. This fireplace would accommodate a set of marble slips very nicely.

English, c.1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65 1⁄2" 166.3 cms	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	5 3⁄8" 13.7 cms
Internal	49 7⁄8" 126.7 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms

Stock: 16754

A fine and large profusely decorated French gilt gesso overmantel mirror in the Rococo taste. The deeply moulded arched frame is carved with floral and foliate motifs in low relief, and encloses the original bevelled plate. The pediment is boldly carved with foliate c-scrolls and floral embellishment, centred by a stylised shell.

French, circa 1850

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	Width	Height	Depth
Top	38" 96.5 cms	70 1⁄4" 178.6 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms
Bottom	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms

Stock: 16750

A pretty, late 19th century French gilt gesso overmantle mirror. The pierced cresting of twining, scrolling acanthus and floral decoration is centred by a neoclassical flaming urn. Above an arched, heavily moulded and beaded frame.

French, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 3⁄8" 82.4 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 16268

A late 19th century gilt framed overmantle mirror. The moulded gilt frame enriched with foliate decoration, this is crowned by pierced cresting of a pair of winged griffons ether side of a central framed cartouche.

English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	61" 155 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16776

A fine and large Victorian campana urn of lobed form, resting on its original pedestal base, with simply panelled sides and a guilloche border.

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	Diameter	Height
	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	39" 99 cms

Stock: 16772

A Regency giltwood and gesso overmantle mirror. The arched gilt rope twist frame is terminated with a scroll and acanthus, on a black lacquered plinth, frames the original mercury plate.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	63" 160 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms	3" 7.5 cms

Stock: 16596

A large Gothic revival cast iron fireplace fender with canted ends. The castellated and moulded top rail is set above a pierced quatrefoil frieze with hexagonal castellated turrets to the corners, which are raised on Sphinx form feet.

English, Circa 1800.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	75 3⁄8" 191.5 cms	11 1⁄2" 29.2 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms

Stock: 16546

A large and elegant buff terracotta twin handled pedestal garden urn, likely by Stiff and Sons. The twin handled urn is octangular in form, modelled with foliate detail over the chamfered socle. This is shown raised on an elegant pedestal base stock no. 15786, not included.

English, c.1870.

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	Diameter	Height
Urn	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms

Stock: 15771

A rare set of four antique glass girandoles, each with twin candle arms and mirrored backs, strung with beads and lustres.

English, c.1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 28 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 16723

A mid Victorian corbel fireplace in strikingly veined carrara marble. The moulded shelf is supported by generously carved lion corbels with floral garlands terminating in scrolling acanthus, separated by a plain frieze over plain jambs and supported on moulded footblocks.

English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 3⁄16" 160.5 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	10 11⁄16" 27.3 cms
Internal	35" 89 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 16700

A fine and boldly carved Spanish parcel gilt and ebonised overmantle Baroque style mirror. The tall carver and pierced crest is profusely carved with acanthus and floral decoration surrounding a central shield. This is echoed at the bottom of the richly moulded arched frame.

Spanish, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	58 7⁄8" 149.5 cms	78 1⁄2" 199.5 cms	3 11⁄16" 9.5 cms

Stock: 16666

An antique marble fountain in the Baroque style, with a tripartite dolphin base each with a water spout in their mouths, their tails supporting the generous lobed bowl, which is topped a putto clutching a dolphin, designed to be seen through the cascade of water with the top spout above. Wonderful patina, we would advise against cleaning.

English, mid-19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	49 5⁄8" 126 cms

Stock: 15633

An elegant and simple William IV overmantel mirror with reeded ebonised border within a gilt frame, the two columns to each side with foliate bands.

English, c.1830.

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	Width	Depth	Height
Top	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms	28 13⁄16" 73.2 cms
Bottom	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms

Stock: 15120

A fine early 20th century brass chandelier in the Dutch style. The generous baluster turned centre, issues 6 swan necked arms mounted with generous drip pans.

English, c.1890.

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	Diameter	Drop
	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 16773

An elegant buff terracotta garden urn of acanthus leaf form, on a buff terracotta base, with egg and dart moulding and a laurel wreath decoration to the four sides. This would make a very elegant centrepiece to gardens both large and small.
Attributed to Stiff and Sons, Lambeth.

English, c.1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms

Stock: 16759

A fine neoclassical chimneypiece of excellent proportions, carved from a pure white statuary marble and inlaid with panels of warm Spanish brocatelle marble. The reeded shelf rests over frieze of panelled brocatelle, set with a finely carved neoclassical tablet very much in the Adam style, carved with an urn and opposing sphynxes, and hung with bellflowers. The endblocks are carved with more slender covered urns and rest above the wide jambs, also set with brocatelle and enclosing the reeded slip bordering the opening. A very elegant late Georgian piece, anticipating the simple elegance of the Regency period.

English, c. 1800.

Footblock to footblock measurement: 151.2cm,

Largely original, with addition of later undershelf. Tablet has a rust stain, which can be restored if desired.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 3⁄16" 168.2 cms	52 13⁄16" 134 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms
Internal	38" 96.5 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms
Foot to Foot	59 1⁄2" 151.2 cms

Stock: 16761

A small and very charming 19th century fire basket with an ornate Dutch fireback. The fireback depicts The Fox and the Stork, one of Aesop's fables, at the moment in which the stork has his revenge, serving supper to the fox in a long narrow vessel, after the fox had invited him to dine with him, serving the food in shallow bowls from which the stork couldn't eat. The moral is to not play tricks on others unless you wish for them to do the same in return. This charming fireback is mounted on an Aesthetic Movement fire grate, with ornate front bars, and allium bud form finials.

English, c.1880. View our collection of: Antique fire grates and log baskets.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms
Back width	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 16675

A large and handsome bronze and cast iron enclosed fire basket. The large grate with integral flue connection is set beneath a domed and panelled bronze canopy, centred with a ribbon tied garland of fruit, above scrolling supports and a pierced front apron, all raised on turned cast iron supports.

This type of enclosed fire basket with integral flue connection is ideal for use with fire surrounds with large openings and or small chimney flues, as the basket is connected directly to the flue in the same way as a stove.

English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	22 11⁄16" 57.6 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.4 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Back width	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 16481

A fine Rococo Louis XV chimneypiece in pavonazzo marble. The serpentine shelf sits above a beautifully carved panelled frieze, centred with a shell cartouche framed by sprays of olive. This is framed by the scrolling enblocks, mounted over the scrolling console jambs. carved with a simple stop-fluted decoration.

French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	43 13⁄16" 111.2 cms	16" 40.7 cms
Internal	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	36 1⁄2" 92.7 cms

Stock: 16500

A fine Arts & Crafts brass electrolier, in the manner of William Whitehouse & Co and W.A.S. Benson. The brass takes an organic form, and borrows the essence of design from the Art Nouveau style, with the central brass corona issuing three arms, from which hang the original bell-shaped vaseline glass shades.

English, c.1900.

Hook and chain not included but can supply a suitable fitting.

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	Diameter	Drop
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 6628

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: 16738

A pair of fine and large 19th century copies of the Sosibios vase by Handyside & Co in cast iron, with associated stone bases. These copies of the Greek krater were 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
Vases	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Overall		42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms

Stock: 16545

A fine Renaissance Revival antique pedestal or garden seat in white terracotta. The cylinder shaped form is decorated in relief with mythical beasts and scrolling foliage and has acquired a lovely patina over time. This shape of garden seat originated in China.

English, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 16669

A pair of fine Doulton Lambeth buff terracotta garden urns and pedestals. The urns are of tazza form, perfect for planting, with floral and stiff leaf decoration in low relief over slender socles. They rest on elegant fluted column pedestals, with a dynamic egg and dart rim to the base.

English, c.1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	44 7⁄8" 114 cms

Stock: 16643

A small but fine Louis XV Rococo fireplace in a very subtly mottled Carrara marble. The serpentine frieze is centred by a rocaille or shell and foliate scrollwork with trailing flowers, and this motif is echoed on the scrolling endblocks and canted console jambs.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	52 13⁄16" 134 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	15 3⁄8" 39.2 cms
Internal	35 5⁄8" 90.3 cms	35" 88.8 cms