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Stock: 13800

A charming Louis XVI style patinated and gilt bronze adjustable fireplace fender, the front rail is flanked to each side by figures of seated children, each boy cradling a birds' nest in his lap and holding a bird in one hand and raised on waisted and florally swagged plinths.

French, mid 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Fenders, Firescreens and Nursery Guards

	Width	Height	Depth
	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	10" 25.5 cms	4 1⁄4" 11 cms

Stock: 17023

An antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonné vase later converted for use as a table lamp. The vase decorated with exotic birds amongst foliage against the most captivating deep turquoise ground, and all on a carved wooden base.

Japan, mid-19th century.

View our collection of: Antique candelabras, candlesticks and lamps

	Width	Height	Depth
with lampshade	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms	24 3⁄16" 61.5 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms
without lampshade	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 17123

An elegant 18th century Delft vase converted to a table lamp. The baluster body is painted in the oriental taste, with weeping willows, flowering peonies and bridges. Mounted on an ormolu base.

Dutch, 18th century.

The conversion is early 20th century but it has been recently re-wired and tested. There is a restored chip to the lid.

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Stock: 17035

The most sumptuous pair of Aesthetic Movement armchairs. With turned and ebonised frames typical of the style, the chairs are upholstered in a russet toned velvet, resplendent with tasselled trim - they could of course be re-upholstered if desired...

English or Scottish, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 17033

A unusual George IV flame mahogany secretaire bookcase, the Greek revival scroll pediment is set above a pair of twin panel oval glazed doors, enclosing adjustable shelves. The base with a fitted fall front writing section containing satin wood drawers, pigeon holes and a tooled leather writing surface, above twin doors flanked by turned columns, over bun feet.

English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms	83 1⁄2" 212 cms	16 1⁄2" 41.8 cms

Stock: 17126

An ornate cast iron tool stand in the Baroque manner, with a pair of antique firetools. The stand is wonderfully naturalistic, with climbing roses down the stem, and the base comprises a floral cartouche set with a central scene of a fox and a game bird.
The stand can be sold separately, or paired with a number of fire tools from our collection, or even used as a stick stand, given the game theme.

French, mid-19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Firetools.

	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 17125

An elegant set of French 19th century fire tools with original stand in wrought, cast iron and brass.
Tool stand can be sold separately if desired, as it would pair well with a number of fire tools in our collection.

French mid-19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Firetools.

	Width	Height	Depth
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	28 1⁄8" 71.5 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 17124

Antique Chinese blue and white Kangxi period vase, converted to a table lamp. The vase is finely painted with a battle scene and mounted on a finely vast ormolu base in the rococo taste.
The vase was converted in the early 20th century, but has been re-wired and tested.

Chinese, c.1700 with later additions.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 16672

Small Louis XV Rococo fireplace, in a delicately mottled Carrara marble. The serpentine shelf rests over the frieze of the same form, panelled and inset with a naturalistic cartouche. This is flanked by Rococo endblocks over canted console jambs.

French, late 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	34" 86.3 cms
Outer footblock	51 1⁄2" 130.7 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.

View our collection of: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

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

Stock: 17072

A set of 9 fascinating copper engravings from Andrea Pozzo's (1642–1709), 'Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects' (Prospettiva de' pittori e architetti). Newly framed in archival materials, these would hang together beautifully in a group, or could be sold separately on request.

Notes: Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Baroque painter, architect and Jesuit, known for his ambitious illusory frescoes and treatises on perspective.

	Width	Height	Depth
Each	20 1⁄4" 51.5 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms	1 1⁄4" 3.3 cms

Stock: 16786

Small Louis XV Rococo fireplace, in a softly veined Carrara marble. The serpentine shelf rests over the frieze of the same form, panelled and inset with a scallop cartouche. This is flanked by Rococo endblocks over console jambs.

French, late 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 1⁄8" 142.5 cms	45 7⁄8" 116.5 cms	16 3⁄16" 41.2 cms
Internal	40 1⁄8" 101.8 cms	39" 99 cms
Outer footblock	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms

Stock: 17037

A vast Florentine giltwood mirror of exceptional quality, boldly carved with acanthus scrollwork.

Italian, Florence, c.1850.

View our collection of: Antique mirrors and console tables

	Width	Height	Depth
	60 3⁄8" 153.5 cms	80 1⁄4" 204 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 15711

An unusual 19th century gilt brass chandelier of excellent quality with six hanging lights.

English, c.1850.

View our collection of: Antique chandeliers.

	Diameter	Drop
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms

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: 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.

View our collection of: Antique mirrors and console tables

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

Stock: 17084

A large and grand Victorian giltwood overmantel mirror, the shallow arched plain mirror plate beneath musket ball frieze bordered with barleytwist pilasters and eagle surmount flanked by foliage and thistles.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	50" 127 cms	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms

Stock: 16568

A simple and elegant French Pompadour fireplace in a mellow rouge du nord marble. The serpetine shelf rests over the serpentine panelled frieze. This is supported by angled, flat jambs.

French, late 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Rococo Chimneypieces inc Louis XV English Scottish Chippendale Rococo fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Internal	33 1⁄4" 84.5 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 16854

A very large and imposing 19th century giltwood and gesso English overmantel mirror, the arched silvered mirror plate enclosed by a laurel frame. This is topped by a beautifully modelled surmount, a crossed quiver of arrows and a flaming torch, framed by trailing foliage and hanging bellflower swags.

Victorian, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	78" 198 cms	85 13⁄16" 218 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

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.

View our collection of: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

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

Stock: 16301

A fine large Victorian gilt gesso overmantel mirror, with its original mercury plate. The gently arched and ovolo moulded frame has been beautifully burnished and is surmounted by a cartouche and trailing foliage. A sturdy panelled pack.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	65" 165 cms	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 6646

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

French, late 19th century.

View our collection of: Antique Andirons, Fire Dogs, Alare and Chenets

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

Stock: 16997

A fine blue and white tin glazed garlic neck vase, painted with alternating figural and floral panels between flowerhead and scrollwork borders, now sensitively mounted as a lamp.

Delft, c.1700.

Notes: This is an early example of Delftware imitating the Kangxi exportware from China and is a high quality and rare example.

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	Diameter	Height	Height with shade
	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 17010

A pair of finely painted Japanese imari vases with covers. The vases are hand-painted in underglaze cobalt blue and onglaze enamels, highlighted in gold, with a high degree of naturalism, with vignettes of landscapes bordered by floral decoration. The covers are mounted with foo dog finials.

Japanese, Meiji period (late 19th century).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 16842

A fine Victorian giltwood overmantel mirror, the ogee shaped frame surmounted by a rocaille crest whilst the shoulders and base are decorated with acanthus scrollwork.

English, c.1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	3 1⁄4" 8.5 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: 17114

An 18th century Chinese export porcelain plate painted in underglaze cobalt blue. The central design features peony flowers and bamboo within a fenced garden setting, which is symbolic of marriage. The rim is decorated with floral sprays and stylized motifs.The reverse shows a glazed base with visible staple repair from an early restoration.
A decorative example of Qianlong period export ware.

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	Diameter	Depth
	8 7⁄8" 22.6 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 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.

View our collection of: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	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: 17052

A large Japanese Meiji Period Arita porcelain blue and white vase decorated to the exterior with an all-over blossoming prunus tree, birds and peonies.

Japan, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	24" 61 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.

View our collection of: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

	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: 17087

An 18th century Qianlong period Chinese export meat plate. The centre painted with a bird and flowering trees in a fenced garden.

Chinese 18th century.

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	Length	Width	Depth
	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	1 3⁄16" 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: 17106

A delicate Chinese Porcelain plate, with a centralised painting of a pine tree and bamboo on rocky outcrop.
Would display well with our other pieces of Chinese porcelain.

China, Qianlong period, c.1750.

Condition: Repaired break, glued.

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	Diameter
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms