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Stock: 11176

THE CUPID VENDOR:
A substantial caryatid English Regency antique fireplace surround in the Greek Revival manner richly carved in white statuary marble. The wide moulded shelf above the frieze centred by a tablet carved in relief of The Cupid Vendor a possible Pompeian scene of a noblewoman with maidservant consulting an academic or mystic. The frieze is flanked by ribboned and tied flowering cornucopia. The projecting endblocks carved with delicately pierced round floral paterae supported by figures of vestal maiden on the jambs. Each of the standing figures is classically attired bearing incense burners and are raised on triple block footblocks. English circa 1805.

Notes: In the manner of Sir Richard Westmacott Jr, Sculptor, Royal Academy (1775 – 1856) and very similar to the chimneypiece in The Dining Room at 18, later 19 Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, London W1- image below. This great house was designed and built around 1728 by Edward Shepherd, the proprietor of Shepherds Market off Curzon Street also in Mayfair and was sold in 1730 to the 7th Earl of Thanet. The 8th Earl employed Robert Adam in 1765 to renovate the Georgian interior and further renovation in the Adam Revival manner was carried out in 1880 by Frederick Arthur of Motcomb Street, Belgravia.

The house was demolished in 1933 & the last owner Lady Beecham, wife of Sir Thomas Beecham the conductor, removed the Chimneypieces to Clopton House in Warwickshire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 7⁄8" 200.5 cms	51 3⁄8" 130.5 cms	14" 35.5 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 11963

A large and richly carved French Louis XV cheminee. In profusely figured Breche Violette marble the substantial serpentine shelf is supported on the panelled frieze centred with a high relief carved floral shell cartouche, supported on panelled jambs. French, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72 13⁄16" 185 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms
Internal	53 7⁄8" 137 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 13449

A beautiful and rare Thomas Jeckyll cast iron Stove Front made by the East Anglian Ironworks Company Barnard, Bishop and Barnards (1826-1955).

One of a series of decorative fronts that Jeckyll designed for Barnards for their very popular Slow Combustion Stoves. In this case Jeckyll adapted designs he had created for the 'Thomas Jeckyll Pavilion' which was exhibited at The Philadelphia Centenial Exposition in 1876.

Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881) was a 19th century Aesthetic Movement architect and designer and one of the leading pioneers of the Anglo-Japanese design. He was responsible for some of the most innovative and evocative Aesthetic Movement interiors of his day most notably the 1876 restoration and redecoration of 49 Prince’s Gate, London, the home of shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland.

Although he was a successful architect, Jeckyll is best remembered today for his ground breaking designs in metalwork and it was his exhibition pieces for Barnard, Bishop & Barnards that brought him his greatest renown and set in motion the 19th-century wrought iron revival in Great Britain. He was one of the few figures in the design reform movement in Britain who successfully united beauty and utility.

This stove would have been sold complete with a matching fender and ash tray, please see Barnard's advertisement below.
English Circa 1878.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	39" 99 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms
Internal	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms

Stock: 9902

A tall and impressive Italian Palazzo chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner richly carved in high relief statuary marble. The frieze of this grand fireplace mantel centred with a cameo nobleman's profile flanked by griffins and scrolling foliate decoration, the jambs with panels of urns, fruit & vines and carved capitals.
Italian, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	91 1⁄8" 231.4 cms	72 3⁄16" 183.5 cms	17 1⁄2" 44.4 cms
Internal	65 11⁄16" 167 cms	54" 137.2 cms

Stock: 10667

A grand and imposing 19th century marble antique chimneypiece mantel in the Palladian manner. The substantial white statuary marble shelf over a barrel frieze in Verde Tinos marble inlaid with a Statuary and Sienna marble guilloche pattern centred and flanked by three high relief carved Siena marble Roman lion masks supported on massive " C " scrolled brackets above strapwork decoration on the jambs. Italian, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	85 13⁄16" 218 cms	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	15" 38.1 cms
Internal	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 11565

An exceptional and rare period Louis XV Rococo chimneypiece mantel in Fior di Pesco Apuano marble. The serpentine shelf and frieze is centred by a richly carved clam shell and foliate cartouche, flanked by deeply moulded panels, c-scrolls and generously carved shield ends supported on stop fluted scrolling console jambs, enriched with fish scales and clam shell detail. French, 18th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	75 3⁄16" 191 cms	48 5⁄8" 123.5 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms
Internal	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 9807

A RARE, PERIOD VENETIAN RENAISSANCE CHIMNEYPIECE richly carved in Istrian stone. The carved detail on the frieze centered by a 'stemma nobilare' or family crest as yet not identified, flanked by a profusion of sharply defined scrolled foliage, urns of fruit and winged birds symbolising Peace and Abundance. The upper part sits on two typical scrolled Venetian capitals and the supporting jambs are carved with flaming urns over ears of wheat on their leaved stalks in tall planters below.
Italian 16th to 17th century. Photo before restoration.

COMMENTS : Renaissance Venice, The Lion City, The Floating Republic, imperial Venice where commerce ruled, which challenged the Pope and Islam but absorbed qualities from both. The city of Titian and Palladio.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	90" 228.5 cms	72" 182.9 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Internal	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	56" 142.2 cms

Stock: 11098

A strikingly grand Louis XV Rococo antique fireplace mantel in pale green ribboned Campan marble. Unusually tall for a French chimneypiece, the generous and fine carving in high relief under the large serpentine shelf features an ornate floral shell central cartouche with lower scrolling, flanked by inset panels and large "C" scrolled endblockings with ribbed concave shells supported on further scrolled canted jambs. Provenance: Pall Mall, in the borough of Westminster in London. French mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	67 7⁄8" 172.5 cms	46 13⁄16" 118.9 cms	20 13⁄16" 52.9 cms
Internal	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	37 11⁄16" 95.8 cms

Stock: 13365

A very fine rare and grand polished iron Fire Grate of generous proportions, with column and horizontal bars on the bow fronted grate flanked by tall standards supported on quadrupled feet. These baluster and ball feet were a feature of grates made in the mid to late18th century.
English mid to late18th century.

Notes: There was a near identical fire grate in the dining room of Wilton House, Wiltshire as illustrated in “The English Fireplace” by L A Shuffrey, Plate CXI.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Back Width	24" 61 cms

Stock: 11558

A large Louis XV period Rococo fireplace mantel in Sarrancolin marble, the serpentine contoured shelf over a scrolled shell central cartouche flanked by the panelled frieze terminating in canted endblocks descending on further carved and fluted jambs. French, mid 18th century.

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	width	height	depth
	73 5⁄8" 187 cms	48 3⁄16" 122.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
	56 1⁄8" 142.5 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 8864

A very grand Italian Renaissance style antique fireplace mantel in white Statuary Marble. The stepped shelf, edged with richly carved lambs tongue detail over an egg and dart border, sits above a very fine frieze which is made from one block and carved in high relief with linked palmette motifs supported by scrolled acanthus brackets resting above intricately carved panelled jambs.
Italian, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	83 1⁄2" 212 cms	71 11⁄16" 182 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Internal	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	57 1⁄8" 145 cms

Stock: 13193

GENEROUS AND GRAND:
A very fine giant of a grate, in the early Georgian style, fashioned in polished steel and cast iron, it's breadth and depth speaking of strength and presence. The large basket with a pair of stylised polished steel finials is fronted by a cut steel serpentine apron centred by a boar's head amid scrolling floral motifs supported on either side by a pair of tall standards with elongated polished steel urn finials above simple column legs.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
overall dimensions	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	17 1⁄8" 43.5 cms
back width	24" 61 cms

Stock: 12987

BAROQUE GRANDEUR. A huge cast iron firegrate in the Italian Baroque manner with a shaped, scrolled and semi-hooded backplate, three heavy curved front bars flanked by scrolled finials and fronted by a pair of massive elaborate baluster andirons. English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	36" 91.5 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms
Back width	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 9889

Arts & Crafts:
A unique and elegant Arts and Crafts bow fronted fire basket on a grand scale with a delicate pierced brass apron of floral motifs, a pair of tall slender andirons, the ball finials etched with stylised suns resting on brass ball and claw feet. Identical, except for the andirons, to one in the Great Chamber at Gilling Castle shown below in a late 19th century photo. English circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	28" 71 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 13209

A large cylindrical ornate antique French cast iron wood burning stove, with ornate cast decorative detail in the Renaissance manner, mounted on spoked wheels either side and a forward roller for ease of movement using the front mounted ebonised handle.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 13280

MYSTICAL MYTHICAL MAN: An exquisite Louis XV Cheminee, carved in high relief in veined ivory Pavonazzetto marble. The serpentine shelf over a shaped frieze with a finely defined large central shell cartouche, flanked by leafy adorned spandrels, the end blocks with carved effigys of the mythical Green Man with oak leaf beards above scrolled fielded jambs with tumbling acanthus leaf decoration and highly veined and intricately carved acanthus footblocks.
French, circa 1870s.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Internal	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	36" 91.5 cms

Stock: 12831

A 17th century Italian near life size white statuary marble sculpture head and wings of an angel carved in the Baroque manner of BERNINI, the 17th century Italian Sculptor, with the initials CB on the back of a wing. Italian, 17th century.

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	width	height	deoth
	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 10044

A rare period George III cast iron & steel Fire grate, the
pierced apron flanked by urns, above bead and button frieze
and hexagonal tapered legs.
English 18th century with later restorations.

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	width	height	depth
External	36 1⁄2" 92.7 cms	33 5⁄8" 85.3 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Back width	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 12582

A rare Martinware saltglaze ceramic fireplace surround by Robert Wallace Martin of the renowned 19th century Fulham Pottery Martin Brothers (1873 to 1923). The pottery later moved to Havelock Road in Southall, London.

This example, dated 1881, features nine architectural panels, incised with scrolling flowers and foliage panels containing serpents, dragons and mythical beasts, panels of oak leaf and acorns. The sides with further incised panels of scrolling foliage with birds and squirrels, glazed ochre, brown and blue, other marks, impressed mark to bottom right corner.

Notes: The four Martin Brothers, Wallace, Walter, Charles and Edwin, produced a distinctive type of stoneware pottery, called Martinware, from the 1870s through to the First World War, with a little work being produced through to 1923 when their pottery closed.
Robert Wallace Martin, the eldest brother, had worked for a while for the architectural sculptor J. B. Phillips of Vauxhall Bridge Road, and later took drawing classes at the nearby Lambeth School of Art.


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	Width	Height	Depth
External	55 7⁄8" 142 cms	48" 122 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 12576

" AWAY TO NEWMARKET " This delicately carved oak Jacobean chimneypiece is attributed to the provenance of the original Royal Palace built by King James Ist in Newmarket in 1606-10, from which time Newmarket became the “Resort of Kings “as the centre of horse racing which is still known as “ The Sport of Kings “. The Royal Palace was the smallest of King James's palaces and cost £ 20,000 to build.

James Ist was the first to import an Arab stallion into England for racing. Later, around 1724, three Arab stallions were imported and crossbred with English mares to produce the thoroughbred horse from which all thoroughbred horses worldwide are descended...The original horses were named after their owners: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk.

The first Newmarket Royal Palace built by James I from which this chimneypiece orginates was succeeded by another palace built by James' grandson Charles II of which the present Palace House is the surviving element.

Please note the image of an advert published in 1934 from Hotspur Antiques which advertises this same chimneypiece as being " from a Stuart King's palace near Newmarket, Suffolk" The original 1606-10 Royal Newmarket Palace was neglected and later destroyed during the Commonwealth / Republic period of Oliver Cromwell. The chimneypiece would have gone into royal custody. It was bought by us on the Isle of Wight where it's provenance was believed to be that it came from a house on the Osborne estate of Queen Victoria.

Shown with 12570, a 19th century Clipsham fossil stone, Jacobean Revival interior / bolection. English, early 17th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	104 11⁄16" 266 cms	95 11⁄16" 243 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	76 13⁄16" 195 cms	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms

Stock: 12479

A substantial and finely proportioned late Georgian antique fireplace mantel. Beautifully carved in white statuary marble with a breakfront shelf over the grandly carved frieze centred by a figural plaque with cherubs and a reclining female. The frieze decorated with rosette paterae and bell flower swags hung between classical urns and flanked by deeply scrolled corbels on the endblocks above tall fluted jambs. English, late 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	90" 228.6 cms	67 11⁄16" 172 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Internal	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	48 13⁄16" 124 cms

Stock: 11920

State of the Art French Louis XV Rococo abundance.

A very rare Louis XV carved limewood Rococo chimneypiece. England. The overall grandly contoured limewood form is embellished with high relief boldy carved scrolled and floral detail, counterpointed with much delightful delicate low relief detail on the borders and corners. The undulating serpentine shelf rests above a frieze dominated almost entirely by the Rocaille cartouche which is flanked by C scrolled endblocks supported on flamboyant scrolled, florally festooned console jambs seated on plain footblocks.
English, circa 1760.

Notes: The name limewood derives from Old English and German Linde and was the classic wood used by sculptors since the Middle Ages for its good carving qualities.

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	width	height	depth
External	78 11⁄16" 200 cms	56 7⁄8" 144.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	52 5⁄8" 133.5 cms	45 11⁄16" 116 cms

Stock: 12563

A very rare survival of an example of a George III painted pine and gesso Verre Eglomise chimneypiece with the original paint finish now pleasantly distressed. The rounded rectangular shelf sits above an acanthus cavetto moulded, triple panel frieze painted with a still life of fruits flanked by floral swags, on a simulated Sienna marble ground. The panelled jambs headed by acanthus pilasters above ribbon tied leaf and berry painted panels with carved anthemion and trailing ribbon-tied husks below.
English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 13⁄16" 162 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms
Internal	50" 127 cms	52 13⁄16" 134 cms

Stock: 12006

A large period Italian Renaissance Chimneypiece in Istrian marble. The frieze carved in high relief with scrolling foliage interspersed with winged cherubs on stylised seahorses either side of a central circular medallion with Hercules slaying an opponent, flanked by figures of putti and winged figures on the corners. The jambs also profusely carved with typical arabesque designs. Venetian, 17th-18th century.

Provenance: By repute from Warwick Castle, a partly medieval castle built in 1068 by William the Conqueror, altered and added to during all the succeeding centuries.

NOTE : Istrian marble from the Istrian peninsular, which borders Italy, Croatia and Slovenia on the Adriatic sea, is sometimes referred to as Istrian stone and was much used in Renaissance Veneto, Venice etc.

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	width	height	depth
External	85 3⁄8" 217 cms	72 5⁄8" 184.5 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	56 1⁄4" 143 cms

Stock: 12030

A SPLENDID AND GRAND 19th CENTURY FIRE GRATE IN BRASS AND IRON with bronze feet. The two magnificent winged Griffins fronting the low slung deep log basket, embellished with five floral brass studs under the bowed firebars, over pretty C scrolled, central shell Rocaille brass detail. There are two slender topped urns atop the firebars and brass shoulders leading up to the later ornate fireback.
English 19th century, with restorations.

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	width	height	depth
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	32 1⁄2" 82.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms
back plate	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 8893

A Venetian Renaissance Revival Chimneypiece richly carved in Breccia marble. The deeply moulded serpentine shelf over the high relief carved frieze centered by a central floral cartouche flanked by florally decorated panels and scrolled bearded masks of Venetian noblemen supported on substantial, moulded jambs and plinths.
Italian, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
external	76 5⁄8" 194.5 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms
internal	49 5⁄8" 126 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms

Stock: 11837

A rare Chateau scale Rococo chimneypiece, exceptionally large and imposing and carved in white Carrara marble chimneypiece, dramatically carved in high relief in Sicilian veined white marble. The serpentine shelf over a panelled frieze centred by a large high relief shell cartouche surrounded by richly scrolled floral decoration. The massive angled jambs dramatically featuring progressively large kidney shaped elements down to the grandly curved C shaped palm frond like base elements on large scrolls, all carved in high relief and supported on angled moulded foot blocks.

French, 19th Century.


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	width	height	depth
external	84 1⁄4" 214 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
internal	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 14364

A fine Regency chimneypiece finely carved in white statuary marble in the Greek Revival manner of Thomas Hope. The simply moulded shelf is seated over Greek key endblockings which flank two fluted frieze panels centred by a well carved centre tablet which depicts Artemis, the Hellenic Goddess of the hunt, her Roman equivalent was Diana, reclining against a recumbent lioness. The jambs incorporate two robed maidens on reeded plinths. English, early 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	77" 195.5 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms

Stock: 10730

An extraordinary and large period Spanish chimneypiece in the Mannerist manner. It is intensively carved in polished stained and waxed pine of canted breakfront form, the mantle with raised geometrically carved platform centred by a scrolled heraldic shield emblazoned on the right side with the Santiago Di Compostela Cross, topped by a baronial coronet, the frieze with a pair of winged dragons carved in deep relief over an arched scroll-carved aperture with an acanthus-carved 'keystone' and flanked by figural-carved jambs, the whole embraced by canted mask-carved corbels above winged, hoofed grotesque creatures.The interior insert grate is an exact replica if the insert in our sold stock no 4292 a Spanish Art Modernista mosaic & hammered wrought iron fireplace by Domenic y Montaner of Barcelona.
Spanish,16th century. Known Provenance.

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	width	height	depth
	72 13⁄16" 185 cms	68 1⁄8" 173 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 10321

AN IMMACULATE LARGE SOPHISTICATED CHIMNEYPIECE in the Italian Renaissance manner in black marble. The substantial moulded shelf breaks back at the ends and is broken by an arched niche containing a sculpted circular mask of a Bacchic maiden with vine leaves and grapes adorning her hair - in Rosso Antico red marble. A vine leaf and grape swag is festooned beneath a scrolled central plinth and flanked by acanthus leaf detail over fluted bars interspersed with pyramid lozenges, supported on splendid fluted columns under plain Tuscan capitals, descending to circular bases on square footblocks. Image before final restoration and repolishing. Italian 19th century. Shown with a matching 19th century decorative cast interior, SNo 10184, not included in the price.

SCALE : Tall, wide and grand.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 11⁄16" 210 cms	83 11⁄16" 212.5 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms
Internal	50 3⁄16" 127.6 cms	59 1⁄2" 151.1 cms

Stock: 10015

A very large Neo Gothic Regency cast iron fire grate possibly made by J.S. Morris Cooking-Kitchen & Stove Grate Manufacturer, Devonport (1828) contractor to the Board of Ordnance and the United Gas Company who supplied military stores and materials, please see their advertisement below. English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Max	40" 101.5 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms

Stock: 10061

A large English Regency cast iron fire basket. Baronial, imposing, handsome, describes this grate, with dual wolfhound monopodea andirons...rings in their mouths and paw feet joined by downswept side rails to the foliate cast back, with trefoil top flourish. The front bars with tie baton detail.The second image below shows a very similar grate in Charles Dickens' Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent. English, circa 1820. English, circa 1820.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	26 5⁄8" 67.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 10014

A very large Tudor Gothic Revival chimneypiece in Painswick Limestone, possibly by T. H. Wyatt 1807-1880, a contemporary of Pugin. The frieze and canted ends are carved with nine Quatrefeuille under a concave moulded shelf with likewise nine carved floral motifs in the Pugin style of Oak leaves, over a Gothic arch with oakleaf carved spandrels.Shown in the last frame below with 10015, the original fire grate.

Provenance: Wyke House, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, home of the Hammond Family19th century cloth mill owners in Trowbridge, demolished in the 1950s.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	90 7⁄8" 230.9 cms	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	43 7⁄8" 111.4 cms

Stock: 9856

A substantial and impressive Italian Renaissance chimneypiece possibly by Jacopo Sansovino 1486-1570, in extraordinary intricately polychromed fossil, Lumachella Bigia di Verona marble. The large contoured frieze cantilevered out and supported on massive scrolled jambs descending to Lion Paw feet.
Italian, 16th century.

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	Width	Height
External	78 1⁄4" 199 cms	77 3⁄16" 196 cms
Internal	52" 132 cms	60 5⁄8" 154 cms

Stock: 8976

GRAND VENETIAN BAROQUE FIREPLACE MANTEL in the 'Brideshead Revisited' manner : A grand and imposing Italian carved giltwood and marble Palazzo chimneypiece. The fluted mantel with bold projection, centred by a benignly smiling satyr's mask with flowing beard, flanked by plinths on which are mounted large clam shells over the tapering panelled jambs with winged pensive cherub sentinels, with descending bounteous fruit swags, terminating in acanthus leaves and scrolls. With later massive projecting sculpted green marble ingrounds.

COMMENTS : A beautiful creation with delightfully life-like portraiture in the satyr's and puttis' faces, worthy of a very grand Italian Baroque palazzo of the period, particularly in Venice. A mantel of similar proportions in related style is to be seen at Castle Howard , location for the film 'Brideshead Revisited'. see below.
Italian,circa 1850.

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	width	height	depth
exterior	89" 226 cms	69 1⁄4" 176 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
interior	47" 119.5 cms	48 5⁄8" 123.5 cms