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Stock: 17024

A pair of large patinated bronze table urns after the Townley vase.

French, late nineteenth-century.

Notes: The Townley Vase is a large Roman marble vase after a Greek original. The vase, dating from the 2nd century, was discovered in 1773 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish Antiquarian. Its name comes from the English collector Charles Townley, who purchased the vase after its discovery. After his death, the vase was brought to its final home, the British Museum.

	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms	11 5⁄8" 29.5 cms	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms

Stock: 17073

A set of 12 fine copper engravings depicting the ancient costumes and trades of the Egyptians, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans by Roccheggiani. Taken from the his work of 1804, entitled 'Aaccolta di Tavole rappresentanti i costumi religiosi civili, e militari degli antichi Egiziani, Etruschi, Greci, e Romani', which comprised 100 plates on this theme.

Italian, c.1804.

Newly framed with archival material. Would be magnificent hung together.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄4" 46.4 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 17122

A rare and important Italian Giltwood mirror. The finely carved frame comprises a simply moulded rectangular frame, embellished with the most spectacular foliate openwork. The elaborate surmount is centred by a mask set within a sunburst and the whole is supported on out-swept and scrolled foliate feet. The frame encloses the most atmospheric original plate.

Italian, early 18th century.

Provenance: A private palazzo in Lucca, Tuscany.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	32 7⁄8" 83.6 cms	67 3⁄8" 171.3 cms	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms
Internal

Stock: 17090

An enigmatic Italian portrait of a young woman holding a prayer book. This oil on canvas is a half length portrait set within an oval vignette, painted with clouds. The sitter gazes directly at the viewer, her hair loosely pinned, wearing a large baroque pearl earring. Her dress is neoclassical in style, and evocative of allegorical paintings of the period.

Italian, c.1700. Awaiting further research.

Condition: Relined and a restored tear, in very good order.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	34 7⁄8" 88.6 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 6646

A pair of large antique cast bronze andirons, in the Louis XIV style, with flambeau finials mounted on urns above a classical mask with c-scrolled shoulders resting on sturdy clawed feet.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 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: 17015

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 finely cast putti playing musical instruments set within oval paterae surrounded by ribbon tied laurel and trellis panels.

French, circa 1880.

A pair stock no. 17008, please enquire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms	44 3⁄16" 112.2 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms
Internal	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms
Outer footblock	53 1⁄8" 135 cms

Stock: 17075

A large pair of 19th century blue and white porcelain baluster jars and covers. Beautifully painted with birds and flowers and topped with foo dog finials.

Chinese, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	5 7⁄8" 15 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 17054

A large pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white temple jars and covers, each of baluster form and decorated with playful dogs of Foo amidst clouds, the domed covers similarly decorated and with Foo dog finials.

Nanking, China. Qing Dynasty.

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

Stock: 17089

A delicate Regency style fireplace with a slender shelf resting over a reeded frieze, which is flanked by a pair of endblocks each separately decorated with musical instruments. These rest on reeded jambs over plain footblocks.

English, c.1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
external	54" 137.1 cms	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	5 7⁄8" 15.1 cms
Internal	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	37 7⁄8" 96.3 cms
Outer footblock	49 11⁄16" 126.3 cms

Stock: 17064

'Dance of the Maenads', a large decorative plaster relief after the 5th Century Greek panels attributed to Callimachus which were lost or destroyed, but immortalised in later Roman copies, the most notable of which are housed at the Prado, Madrid.
This panel is a celebration of the late classical Greek style, which luxuriated in billowing drapery, dynamic form and capturing subjects in motion. Here, one of Dionysus' female retinue holds a thyrsus - a staff made of giant fennel and topped with a pinecone - and dances in ecstasy.

This particular copy was created for the tv show, 'Outlander' and is first seen in Season 2, Ep. 2, 'Not in Scotland Anymore', and is shown on the facade of a Parisian house.

	Width	Height	Depth
	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	77 5⁄8" 197 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 17105

A charming Kangxi period blue and white porcelain plate. Painted in a bright 'Kangxi blue' underglaze, the plate depicts a lively street scene with vendors and people playing games. This is framed by a prunus and bamboo border.

Chinese, Kangxi Period, c.1700.

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	Diameter	Depth
	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	1 3⁄8" 3.5 cms

Stock: 17081

A Chinese Qing Dynasty six section blue and white tulip or crocus vase. Beautifully painted with trailing clematis flowers and ruyi borders.

China, Qing Dynasty, c.1880.

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	Diameter	Height
	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 16985

An imposing and beautifully carved Louis XV chimneypiece in a rich hued Rouge Royale marble with its original, richly detailed cast iron insert. The serpentine shelf rests over the frieze of the same form, which is dramatically carved with an acanthine cartouche and flanked by the most beautifully carved endblocks echoing the same foliate motif. These are mounted over the angled, console jambs which are raised on plain footblocks. The interior is framed by the beautifully ornate cast iron insert, original to the fireplace.

French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 3⁄16" 155.5 cms	44 1⁄4" 112.5 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.3 cms
Internal	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms
Outer footblock	58 7⁄8" 149.5 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: 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: 16848

A dramatically veined French bolection fireplace in a deep garnet hued campan marble, with white veining and green inclusions. This fireplace has the classically elegant bolection moulded profile, and in the French tradition, is topped with a shelf.

French, late 19th century.

We have another similar fireplace available.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 11⁄16" 146.5 cms	44" 111.8 cms	11 1⁄2" 29.2 cms
Internal	41 1⁄8" 104.5 cms	35 11⁄16" 90.8 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

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

Stock: 17025

A dramatic French Baroque bolection fireplace in a boldly veined rouge campan marble. The moulded shelf sits above the frieze, which is simply carved with spandrels and a generous moulding above the arched opening.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 13⁄16" 164.5 cms	45 7⁄8" 116.5 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	48 3⁄16" 122.5 cms	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms
Outer footblock	63 3⁄16" 160.5 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: 17046

A Reformed Gothic centre table of the most exceptional quality. Carved from oak, the table has a thick round top in quartered oak, its frieze carved with a chevron moulding and inlaid with ebonised lozenges. This is mounted over a pedestal base of extraordinary design, with a central columnar stem enclosed by four slender pilasters with ebonised shafts. The Gothic stepped supports are architectural in form and very much reminiscent of the work of Charles Bevan.

English, c.1860.

Awaiting further research, but likely to be workshop of Charles Bevan.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	48" 122 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	48" 122 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.

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	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: 16986

A small, well proportioned Louis XVI chimneypiece in strikingly veined Arabescato marble. The panelled frieze and endblocks are set beneath a moulded rectangular shelf, all supported on fluted and panelled console jambs.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	48 11⁄16" 123.7 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	15 1⁄8" 38.4 cms
Internal	32" 81.4 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms
Outer footblock	47 3⁄16" 120 cms

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: 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.

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

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	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.

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	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.

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	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