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Stock: 7807

LONGSTAFF FAMILY CHIMNEYPIECE: A finely carved small but tall Jacobean Renaissance Revival chimneypiece & overmantel in Derbyshire fossil stone with the coat of arms of the Longstaff Family, who financed the Sir Ernest Shackleton and Scott's Antarctic Expeditions in 1914. The family motto "VIGILATE" carved along the frieze. With restorations.
English, dated 1892.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	61" 154.9 cms	85" 216 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms

Stock: 8467

A rare and extraordinary Italian Renaissance Mannerist marble chimneypiece. The deeply undercut serpentine shelf over the exquisitely carved frieze centered by a Satyr's mask, surrounded with scrolled and extremely fine foliate decoration with large scrolled, angled and likewise deep undercut foliate end brackets over Arabesque decorated jambs descending to curved decorated footblocks. With restorations.
Italian, circa 1680.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	63" 160 cms	53" 134.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Internal	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 9063

A LARGE OAK JACOBEAN REVIVAL PANELLED ROOM, IDENTICAL TO THAT REMOVED FROM THE "OLD PALACE " BROMLEY BY BOW, CIRCA 1604 , AND ERECTED IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM , SOUTH KENSINGTON AROUND 1900.

PROVENANCE: This room has recently been removed by us together with 9061, the magnificent carved oak and stone chimneypiece, from KIRKDALE MANOR, NORTH YORKSHIRE, and is of pegged and mitre panelled construction, comprising eight blind strapwork carved diminishing pilasters divided by repeated seven-section rectangular graduated panels to a strapwork narrow frieze with corbelled, dentil and ogee cornice, and including two ten-panel doors with decorative iron handles, plates and hinges ( the doors 83.5 " high by 39 " wide by 2 " thick ) and two window seats over iron radiator vents of scroll pierced strapwork design and rectangular in shape, comprising six metal panels altogether, each 24.5"by 18.5", the panelling 143" high, length of room 37 ft, width of room 19.6 ft, bay of three windows 7.7 ft. deep & 18 ft wide.
NB: The fireplace and overmantel are not included . Illustration, photo before restoration, cleaning and re-polishing.

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Stock: 10996

A splendid Early Georgian style bronze and cast iron Fire Grate, from the original model produced around 1730 by Messers Feetham, Soho Square, in a design from Thomas Chippendale's " Modern Fashion ". Featured in The Connoisseur Magazine, circa 1920 - see below.
Mid Victorian.

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	width	height	depth
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 7950

A fine quality George III Adam style serpentine fronted antique firebasket in bright cut steel and cast-iron, with etched medallions on the spandrels and the pierced etched apron, typically decorated urn finals, bowed bars and chamfered legs. English, circa 1840.

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	width	height	depth
	37" 94 cms	26" 66 cms	16 1⁄2" 41.9 cms