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Stock: 16342

An exceptional giltwood Venetian wall mirror. The fine frame has strapwork cresting, pierced sides and apron, the whole carved with rocaille, c-scrolls and floral flourishes, enclosing the original mercury glass mirror plate, which is surmounted by an etched cartouche plate to the crest, decorated with a woman playing a lyre with a pastoral scene.

Venice, c.1780.

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	width	height	depth
	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	63 13⁄16" 162 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms
Crest depth	6 1⁄2" 16.5 cms

Stock: 16337

An exceptional Gothic Revival stone chimneypiece from Woodchester Mansion. Carved from soft buff coloured Bath stone, this chimneypiece is a celebration of nature, with a floral undershelf beautifully carved in high relief. This rests on a frieze carved with five foliate panels. One panel is carved with a vine, the other a flowering lily, the central panel depicts two birds devouring grapes from a vine, the next, a British oak laden with acorns, and the final panel, a fruiting ivy.
This beautiful carving is surpassed only on the spandrels, where on one side it is carved with a grapevine, and on the other a serpent is shown within a fruiting tree, evoking the story of Eve. The jambs are deftly carved with floral paterae and grapevines over moulded footblocks.

This piece is an extraordinary survival from the unfinished Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. By repute it was designed and made for the mansion but was never installed as the building project was left unfinished. AWN Pugin drew up early plans for this house, but the project was later taken on by Benjamin Bucknall. It is uncertain whether this chimneypiece was designed by Pugin, or was in fact designed by Bucknall, but it does share many stylistic similarities to the stonework throughout the rest of the house. Sadly after the patron of the project died, his Gothic vision was never realised in full.

English, c.1860

Provenance: Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	55 3⁄8" 140.7 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	8" 20.3 cms
Internal	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 16211

A very large and rare and heavy cast iron William IV fire grate, with a dramatic Rococo backplate and imposing andirons cast with ornate foliate decoration. A truly imposing piece and a very unusual design.

English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	39" 99 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms
Back Width	36" 91.5 cms

Stock: 16344

A fine and rare pair of 18th century George III wall mirrors with original mercury plates. Each plate is bordered by a giltwood frame of foliate design woven with c and s scrolls, very much in the Chippendale manner.

It is very rare to come across such a fine pair of mirrors of this date.
English, c.1760.

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	Width	Height
	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	49 5⁄8" 126 cms

Stock: 16294

A fine mid-eighteenth century Venetian giltwood wall mirror. The elegant mirror is profusely decorated with foliate c scrolls in the Rococo manner, with floral flourishes and an elegant finial above an additional mirror plate. With original mercury plates.

Northern Italian, c.1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms

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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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69" 175.3 cms	55 11⁄16" 141.6 cms	6" 15.2 cms
Internal	43" 109.2 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms

Stock: 16230

A fine antique cut glass and gilt brass chandelier of exceptional quality of a tent and waterfall design, profusely hung with beads and prism drops, issuing eight scrolling foliate gilt brass arms.
English, mid-19th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	46 1⁄8" 117 cms

Stock: 15439

An imposing Regency statuary marble chimneypiece with a bold geometric design to the frieze and the jambs, and laurel wreath endblocks. This strikingly modern design embedded within the Greek Revival style is very much the antecedent to the Art Deco, despite being designed over a hundred years before the modernist style. This chimneypiece is of exceptional quality.
Irish, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	84 1⁄8" 213.5 cms	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms	12" 30.6 cms
Internal	50 3⁄16" 127.5 cms	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms

Stock: 15359

A highly unusual and attractive Gothic Revival oak and inlaid ebony Victorian sideboard attributed to the renowned English furniture designer Charles Bevan(1820s-1882).

The undercut top shelf, with a raised three quarter gallery, rests above three neat drawers beneath which is a central set of recessed open shelves, flanked by two cupboards with quatrefoil paneled doors. The brass ringed handles, hinges and locks are original and the whole is supported on a sturdy plinth base. A finely made piece of furniture with great attention paid to detail and carving.
English, late 19th century.

Notes: Charles Bevan was a Victorian Gothic Revival designer who was noted for his marquetry designs. In earlier years he worked with prestigious furniture manufacturers and designers including Gillows and J. P. Seddon and became very well known his work featuring in catalogues and periodicals. A woodcarver and cabinetmaker of some distinction in 1872 he set up in partnership with his son, designing and manufacturing marquetry furniture until his death in 1892.Examples of his work can be viewed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and can also be found in various English country mansions.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 15960

A pair of Aesthetic Movement andirons attributed to Thomas Jekyll and possibly made by Barnard, Bishop and Barnards. Although unmarked, they possess the qualities of Jekyll's designs, with his signature use of Japanese mons within the decoration on the shafts. The rosettes symbolise night and day and with beautiful repoussé work a Kingfisher on a branch represents Day, or dawn, with the sun rising behind him, whilst the owl represents Night and is surrounded by stars.
English, c.1875.

Notes: Barnard, Bishop and Barnards were at the heart of Norwich's iron industry, and the company gained an international reputation after their collaboration with Thomas Jekyll.
Jeckyll’s associations with a group of London artists – notably James Abbott McNeill Whistler – made him a key figure in the Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement. Jeckyll used japonaise designs for Barnards’ fireplaces while his sunflower motif came to symbolise the Aesthetic Movement.

	Width	Height	Depth
	7" 17.7 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 15958

A fine and grand neoclassical chimneypiece in statuary marble with Siena marble inlay. The boldly carved breakfront shelf sits above a high relief egg and dart undershelf and a finely fluted frieze inlaid with Siena marble. This is mounted with a beautifully carved tablet depicting putti feeding a goat within a pastoral landscape. This symbolises abundance. The solitary putto endblocks rest on three-quarter pilasters with inlaid Siena volutes over plain jambs.

English, c.1760 with nineteenth-century restorations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	72 1⁄2" 184.2 cms	61 5⁄8" 156.5 cms	11" 28 cms
	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	40 1⁄2" 102.8 cms

Stock: 15911

A near life size carved marble figure of the Crouching Venus. This late 19th century copy of the iconic Hellenistic original bases its form on the crouching Venus on permanent display at the British Museum. It depicts the Goddess Venus at her bath, startled and shielding her nudity.
Italian in origin, this statue would likely have been made for a wealthy buyer enjoying their Grand Tour in Italy.

Italian, c.1890.

Notes: The subject of the Crouching Venus was explored by various sculptors in the Roman period, based on the Hellenistic statue of the same subject attributed to Doidalsas (200-100 B.C.)

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 15778

A large Italian school carrara marble sculpture depicting a sleeping nymph. The finely carved sculpture is reminiscent of a depiction of Sleeping Ariadne, popularised by the Roman copy of the Hellenistic original, the former being housed at the Vatican. Reclining on rocks, the sleeping nymph is shown draped only below the waist, and her finely modelled form is exemplified by the delicacy of her fingers.
Italian, early 19th century.

Before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 15775

A large eighteenth century English neoclassical chimneypiece of exceptional quality. The moulded reverse breakfront shelf sits above a frieze inlaid with volutes of sarrancolin marble. The central tablet has been deftly carved with a neoclassical urn hanging with bellflowers.The delicately carved endblocks are supported by jambs also inlaid with volutes of soft amber coloured sarrancolin marble. Remarkably, this fireplace has had very few repairs over the centuries, and remains in beautiful, original condition.
English, c.1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 11⁄16" 177.1 cms	58 7⁄8" 149.6 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms
Internal	44 1⁄4" 112.4 cms	46 1⁄8" 117 cms

Stock: 15572

A fine and large nineteenth-century Gothic Revival oak bracket clock, with a silvered dial.

The clock has an eight day, triple fusee, four pillar movement with anchor escapement and chimes the quarters on either eight or four bells, "Westminster chimes" and strikes the hours on a single gong.
The finely engraved silvered arched top brass dial with Roman numerals has three subsidiary dials, namely; strike or silent, slow or fast, Westminster chime, or chime on 8 bells. Engraved spandrels frame the chapter ring. The case is the perfect incarnation of the Gothic Revival, the cathedral case topped with spires and finials which are supported by cluster pilasters whilst the dial is framed with a foliate ogee window.
English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	26" 66 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 15724

A large and finely carved 19th century Italian marble lidded urn, decorated with trailing grape vines and and dramatic handles, modelled as grinning and horned satyrs. The body of the urn is carved with two cartouches, one depicting a nymph bathing in a pool whilst a satyr observes, hidden by bullrushes. The other depicts an a satyr and a goat in an amorous and playful embrace. After the antique.

Italian, c.1850.

Could be situated in a sheltered spot in a garden or courtyard, but equally suited to an interior setting.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28" 71 cms	40" 101.5 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 15551

A very large 19th century twin handled maiolica vase in the form of a wine krater. The exquisite hand painted decoration includes two central cartouches, one depicting Bacchus and Ariadne reclining within an allegorical scene. Bacchus loosely hold his thyrsus, a wand of giant fennel whilst Ariadne embraces him.

On the verso is a depiction of a Bacchic procession, Bacchus holds grapes aloft whilst he rides in a chariot drawn by a lion and a goat, as maenads dance around in ecstasy. These scenes are framed by winged grotesque handles and the entirety of these vase is decorated profusely, including the socle, where a putto is depicted inscribing a tablet.

Italian, c.1890. Possibly Neapolitan. .

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	Width	Height
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 13122

An imposingly large Jacobean Revival cedar wood antique fireplace surround with an exquisitely inlaid over mantel. This chimneypiece has a projecting pediment on the upper register which rests above a pair of strapwork panels beneath which are two high arched panels decorated with stylised ornate inlaid vases of flowers picked out in satinwood, mahogany, sycamore and ebony. The panels are set between three pairs of free standing, reeded columns with finely carved capitals terminating in tall strapwork feet. Beneath the over mantel is a fireplace surround, with a moulded shelf above a strapwok carved barrel undershelf, supported by a pair of tapering reeded jambs resting on tall footblocks.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height (Overall)	Depth
External	90 5⁄8" 230 cms	129 7⁄8" 330 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	53 11⁄16" 136.5 cms	60" 152.5 cms

Stock: 15438

A late 18th century Statuary and Brocatelle marble chimneypiece, inlaid with a Greek key design on the frieze. The finely carved tablet depicts a goddess, perhaps Persephone, holding a cornucopia brimming with fruit, including a pineapple; something of a luxury in 18th century Britain. Beside her, a putto holds aloft an ear of wheat as he rides a lion pulling the goddess' chariot. In the distance, a small temple sits atop a hill, very much like the temple follies seen in 18th century parkland. Flanking the frieze are two elegantly carved endblocks, depicting a putto holding torches - another symbol of Persephone. These are supported by gently tapered jambs, inlaid with flutes of brocatelle marble and terminating in plain footblocks.
English, Circa 1790 with restorations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	74 13⁄16" 190 cms	60 13⁄16" 154.5 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms
Internal	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	47" 119.5 cms

Stock: 14971

A large grand gilt bronze clock garniture in the Louis XVI style. The clock, with an 8 day striking movement that strikes on the half and the full hour and with it's original pendulum and key, is set in an ornate gilt bronze case mounted on its original giltwood base, which is a rare survival. The convex porcelain dial with cobalt blue Roman hours and black Arabic minutes, fine gilt hands, ringed lion masks and a bevelled convex glass door is topped by an ornate lidded urn with an acorn finial. The pair of tall five branch candelabra with further ringed lion masks also retain their original giltwood bases.
French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms	27" 68.5 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 10719

A Renaissance stone door casement, carved in dark grey Pietra Serena stone. The elegant overdoor takes the form of a concave scallop shell, a motif derived from Roman sarcophagi, which later became a Christian symbol of rebirth, resurrection and pilgrimage. This suggests that the doorway was perhaps an entrance to a place of worship. Beneath this, stylised dolphins are carved nose to tail, undulating across the now weathered surface, worn after centuries of exposure to the elements. Supporting this are carved capitals and jambs decorated with urns and foliate details.

Northern/Central Italian, possibly Florentine. A very similar door is on display in the Victorian and Albert Museum's Renaissance Gallery.

Restoration not possible.

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	width	height	depth
	73 5⁄8" 187 cms	150 13⁄16" 383 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	86 13⁄16" 220.5 cms

Stock: 6593

The Dalquharran Castle Chimneypiece.

A very rare, gently concave Portland Stone fireplace designed by Robert Adam and carved by the renowned Dutch stonemason Pieter Mathias van Gelder.

A moulded shelf rests above a simple frieze centred by a panel carved in relief with a floor standing globe flanked by opposing sphinxes. The endblocks, with carved lyres and husk swags, sit above fern frond corbels terminating in festooned bucrane on fielded panel jambs raised on stepped footblocks.
English, circa 1790.

Dalquharran Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland, is regarded as one of the finest examples of Robert Adam’s Castle Style. His castles were unique in the respect that whilst the outside embodied the robustness associated with a castle, the inside was the embodiment of his restrained and delicate classical style. Dalquharran Castle was created for Thomas Kennedy of Dunure but is sadly now a ruin after the roof was removed in 1967 to avoid paying rates.

The chimneypiece was originally installed in the round tower library of the Castle and epitomised Adam's classical elegance. The last image below shows it in situ in the ruins of the library. It is exceptionally rare to find such a piece and made even more remarkable as it survived virtually undamaged. There is a similarly fine chimneypiece at Seton Castle, Adam’s final project in Scotland.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78" 198.2 cms	58 13⁄16" 149.3 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Internal	47 13⁄16" 121.5 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms

Stock: 11376

A fine, late 18th century antique fireplace surround in Statuary marble with Spanish Brocatelle marble fluting and ingrounds. The breakfront shelf rests on a frieze with inlaid Brocatelle marble fluting, which is interspersed by delicately carved rosette paterae. The frieze is flanked by endblocks carved with pillar vases and trailing leaves above tapering fluted jambs raised on stepped footblocks.
English circa 1780.

Known provenance.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 1⁄4" 176 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	6" 15.3 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 104.8 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 13990

A very rare pair of 17th century Charles II enameled brass andirons or fire dogs.

The uppermost decoration depicts the royal arms, which is supported by two nude male figures, between which is a vase of flowers. The andirons terminate in two disks also decorated with flowers, possibly tulips and roses.

Attributed to the workshops of Anthony Hatch and Stephen Pilcherd. Hatch was a well-known member of the Armourers and Braziers Company and worked with Pilcherd on the low-volume production of enamel ware, which would have been very expensive at the time.

Firedogs of cast brass decorated with red, blue and white enamel, with wrought iron supports, bearing the arms of Charles II or James II. The brass front is in 4 parts, the uppermost containing the royal arms, the middle part formed of two nude male figures supporting the arms with a vase of flowers between them, the lower portions in the form of two convex disks decorated with tulips and other flowers. Unlike cloisonné decoration, the enameled fields were cast in the mould.

London, c. 1660-1688.

Two related pairs of examples are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	23 13⁄16" 60.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 14757

A large and imposing Louis XVI chimneypiece in Belgian Black Marble together with its original brass insert.The frieze and endblocks are carved in Red Languedoc Marble. The stepped moulded shelf rests above the wide ornately carved frieze centred by a female mask resting on a bed of scrolling leaf and rosette detail. The endblocks bear large and bold garlanded female masks above grand stop fluted console jambs raised on stepped footblocks. French, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 1⁄4" 209 cms	62 11⁄16" 159.2 cms	19 13⁄16" 50.2 cms
Internal	53 3⁄16" 135.2 cms	46 7⁄8" 119.2 cms

Stock: 10438

A large and rare, English Rococo, finely carved Statuary Marble tablet of the infant Eros asleep under trees on a bank beside a river in an Elysian landscape set within scrolling borders. It may have once been the central feature on the frieze of a grand chimneypiece. The last image, rather blurred I'm afraid, shows a similar tablet that was from a chimneypiece in Blair Castle, in Pitlochry Scotland.
Carved by Thomas Carter, English, c.1755.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	3" 7.5 cms

Stock: 14868

A monumental Regency stoneware urn, in the manner of the antique. This magnificent urn recalls the form of an Ancient Greek krater - a large vessel for mixing wine. The entire urn is dedicated to the God of Wine Bacchus (Dionysus), with a band of fruiting vines to the neck, underneath which is high-relief frieze depicting a Bacchic procession or thiasus, with revellers carrying cups of wine, bunches of grapes and the other trappings of a hedonistic feast. The serpents fashioned into handles are characteristic of Bacchic iconography and they are often associated with Bacchus, as Maenads - female followers of the God - wore snakes in their hair.

This urn is unlike any other we have come across, but echoes the popularity of themes from classical antiquity, made even more popular by the phenomenon of the Grand Tour. The great engraver and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi even produced an engraved volume solely dedicated to the designs of urns in the antique style. He then manufactured urns in his Italian workshops. In England, the famous manufacturer Eleanor Coade and designers such as Thomas Hope also produced urns in the antique manner for an eager public.

The urn is made from a weather impervious stoneware, similar to the famous Coade stone. Restoration to the handles has been carried out.


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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms
Base	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 14993

A pair of large bronze lanterns from the Regency period. These tapered lanterns are surmounted by a flame emanating from a corona, echoing their past as gas lanterns. Below, there is an elegant band of palmettes very much aligned with the Regency aesthetic and this rests above the curved glass panels.

The bronze has developed a beautiful patina over time.These lanterns were intended to be mounted on a gate post or wall bracket, but can be easily adjusted for hanging if required.

English, early 19th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms

Stock: 14968

An impressive and large late 19th century French quarter chiming gilt brass Gothic Revival bracket or mantel clock retailed by Hall & Company, Manchester. The case, with engraved floral decoration and applied coloured cabuchon jewel mounts, encloses a gilt 7" Roman dial with a finely scroll engraved centre and an eight day spring driven movement with anchor escapement chiming the quarters on a nest of two bells. The movement was made in Saint Nicolas d' Aliermont, by Pierre-Honoré-César Pons and then finished by the Parisian Clock maker, Louis Achille Brocot. French, circa 1870.

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	width	height	depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 14977

A Statuary Marble classically styled delightful antique plaque of generous proportions carved with a central shell cartouche flanked by a sunflower and rose and surrounded with an abundance of small flowers, wheat ears and ribboned bellflowers. English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	10 13⁄16" 27.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 14066

A large and very rare Regency cast & wrought iron, brass mounted antique fire grate in the Greek Revival manner. The backplate, with a rolled top embellished with scrolled foliate detail, sits behind the tooth barred curved fronted grate which is flanked by panels with applied brass stylised honeysuckle and scrolled wrought iron mountings. The grate is supported to the front by a pair of tall draped figural andirons standing on small brass footblocks.
English, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	22" 56 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Back Width	28" 71 cms

Stock: 10928

An important, rare mid-18th century Georgian English Rococo antique fireplace surround in Statuary and Maurin Green Marble influenced by the designs of Sir Henry Cheere (1703-1781) and Isaac Ware (1704-1766). The serpentine shelf rests above a scrolling frieze centred by a carved spray of oak leaves flanked by simple floral rosettes on a bed of Maurin Marble. The end blocks are adorned with acanthus leaves and trailing oak sprigs above finely carved angled console jambs, with Maurin Marble side panels, supported on shaped footblocks. English circa 1750.

Notes: Part of our research revealed that a very similar chimneypiece originated in Woodcote House in Surrey. The house, rebuilt in 1750, was designed by Sir Henry Cheere and the sculptor was Isaac Ware. This chimneypiece bears a close resemblance to their designs. It is also related in style and quality to our SNo 9180.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄8" 180.5 cms	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	52 3⁄16" 132.7 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms

Stock: 14593

An unusually elaborate Rococo, Louis XV style Belgian black marble antique fireplace surround, with gilded detail throughout. The serpentine moulded shelf rests above a deep panelled frieze which is centred by an elaborate rocaille style cartouche and flanked by deeply carved large foliate endblocks. The jambs with large carved scrolling detail supported on shaped footblocks. Belgian, 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	87" 221 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal	64 3⁄16" 163 cms	41 1⁄8" 104.5 cms

Stock: 14414

An imposing and profusely carved French Baroque style fireplace surround in lightly veined white Carrara Marble with an upper coffered stop fluted frieze and stepped entablature above an arched egg and dart band.

The fine quality clock, set within an arched niche framed by a foliate edged band above the garlanded frieze, strikes the hour and the half hour on a single bell. The clock face has gilt Roman numerals on a marble bed within a gilt egg and tongue frame. The delicately pierced hands are finely engraved with foliate detail and the clock is stamped on the movement Bailly Sr De Weibel, Breveté S.G.O.G. A Lyon.

The opening is edged with a finely carved leaf and berry band and the jambs each have two tapering, garlanded grotesque terms to the front and the sides terminating in large lion claw feet resting on stepped footblocks. Shown here with andirons SNo12527 not included in the price.
French, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 7⁄8" 170 cms	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 10764

Bank of England Sculpture Collection :The new 'Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.'
English, circa 1957.
Sculptor: Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler, President of The Royal Academy, 1956-66.

A smaller version of the 1934 Art Deco sculpture still centering the pediment over the main entrance of the Bank of England Threadneedle Street frontage also sculpted by the same sculptor.

Provenance: This version was removed from high above the main entrance of the One New Change building in the City of London the building, erected in the 1950s to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department Annexe and occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wren's magnificent Roman Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral. The building was demolished in 2007.

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	width	height
	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms