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Stock: 15939

A beautifully proportioned small early 19th century inverted breakfront Mahogany collectors chest. The four graduated draws with turned Mahogany knobs are flanked by a pair of tapering Tuscan columns over bun feet.
English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms

Stock: 15933

An ornate parcel gilt bronze colza chandelier and a pair of matching wall lights. The set is playful in style, with a tied ribbon at the very top of the chandelier, from which the central stem hangs. This is mounted with three bronze frolicking putti. The chandelier has three branches, from which emanate three stems, there are 9 bulbs in total.
The accompanying wall lights also feature putti sitting between the two branches hung from tied ribbons.

English, early 20th century.

The colza lamp was developed by the Swiss physicist Ami Argand around 1770 but was patented in England through Argand’s business partner, Matthew Boulton. The patent lapsed due to an oversight on Boulton's part and so the technology became freely available and was widely adopted by British makers. This kind of gravity fed lamp, running on thick viscose colza oil (which can be distinguished from other modes of lamp by its raised central reservoir), remained popular in Britain until being superseded by more efficient paraffin oil lamps and gas lighting in the mid-19th century.

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	width	height
chandelier	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms
wall lights	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 15884

A decorative late 19th century cast iron register grate with original hand coloured and transfer printed floral tiles of pink zonal Geraniums (Pelargoniums). It embodies the high Victorian Style, and would look lovely installed within a Victorian chimneypiece of a similar date.
English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.4 cms	38" 96.6 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16021

A large Neo classical cast iron register grate. The integral hob with serpentine bars is decorated with satyr masks enclosed within ribbon tied laurel wreaths with a central standing lion beneath the bar set. The interior is lined with ribbed back and side panels, all centred with an additional laurel wreath. The outer frame is enriched with panels containing scrolling foliate and ribbon decoration with oval paterae to the corners, containing squirrels.
English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40" 101.6 cms	38 1⁄8" 96.8 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16022

A Tudor revival fireplace in warm honey coloured Bath stone. The gently pointed Tudor arch with foliate spandrels is flanked by a pair of deeply carved Tudor roses, beneath a deeply moulded shelf. All supported on plain stop chamfered jambs which are finished off with small scrolls to their bases.
English, circa 1920.

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

	width	height	depth
External	63 7⁄8" 162.2 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	6" 15.2 cms
internal	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms

Stock: 15934

A pair of large 19th century carrara marble urns. The boldly carved urns are twin handled, with high relief acanthus leaves around the body of the urn on a canted square base. They could be used either as garden or indoor urns.
English, c.1880.

One of two pairs available with stock no. 15935.

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	Diameter	Height
Including handles	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 15892

A gilt brass Rococo five branch chandelier modelled with twisting acanthus leaves and flowers.

French, c.1890.

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	Diameter	Drop
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms

Stock: 14874

A large carved oak Jacobean fireplace surround and overmantel. The high breakfront shelf rests above bead and reel and bracket supports. The carved overmantel is embellished with a pair of scrolled foliate panels beneath which are decoratively arched panels alternating with slender pairs of elaborately carved columns. The fireplace surround, with a double panel frieze with linked anthemion detail interspersed with diamond lozenges, is supported on a pair of tall carved columns with further lozenge detail on the footblocks.
English, c.1650.

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

	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 13⁄16" 164.5 cms	96 11⁄16" 245.5 cms	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms
Internal	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms

Stock: 15943

An antique Georgian style polished steel register grate in the Adam style. Simple in its design, it emulates the harmony of neoclassicism without appearing fussy, and would suit a wide range of interiors.
English, c.1900.

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	Width	Height
	40" 101.5 cms	40" 101.5 cms

Stock: 16016

A pair of 18th century statuary marble chimneypiece tablets. English , c.1770.

	Width	Height
	7 7⁄8" 20 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 15879

A large antique French Versailles style lantern of exceptional quality, with a gilt brass gallery and finial, mounted on a crisply cut and faceted glass shade.
French, c. 1890.

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	Diameter	Drop
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms

Stock: 15882

A Victorian gilt bronze five branch chandelier, the scrolling swan neck arms surround a fluted baluster stem. Its compact size makes it really diverse and it can be used in different rooms.
English, c.1890.

Ceiling rose not included.

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	Diameter	Drop
	26" 66 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 15820

A fine William IV horizontal overmantle mirror with a giltwood reeded frame with acanthus capital corners and ebonised slips. With original silvered mirror plate.
English, c.1830.

	Width	Height	Depth
	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 15818

A rare antique terracotta sundial attributed to the Compton Pottery of Guildford. The sundial comprises a putto holding the dial and this is mounted on a Tuscan column.
A Sundial of this type would have been used by garden designers such as Gertrude Jeckyll for her Arts and Crafts style gardens, and would look fabulous in a number of settings.

English, c. 1910.

Photo before restoration.

Notes: The Compton Pottery was a well-regarded pottery specialising in garden pots and ornamentation. They received commissions from well known figures, including Lutyens, and their work was stocked at Liberty and Co. It was founded by Mary Watts in 1900, and they operated until 1956.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	48" 122 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 12853

A pair of late Victorian cast iron urns of fluted, squat campana form with egg and dart moulded borders, on square bases.

English, circa 1880.

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	Diameter	Height	Base
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23.2 cms

Stock: 15849

A pair of exceptionally delicate and unusual Victorian sycamore chairs. The slender balloon backs are intricately carved with foliage and centred by a blooming peace lily. The caned seats are in very good condition and are set above turned legs that gently taper and turn out.
These chairs would be best suited - and were probably intended - for light or decorative use, perhaps as bedroom chairs.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 41.8 cms	33 13⁄16" 85.8 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 15968

A pair of gilt gesso wall plaques in the Baroque style. These wall plaques depict winged putti and were likely hung in a chapel or church.

Italian, 20th century.

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	Width	Height
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 15917

An elegant Regency fireplace of fine quality, carved from grey veined English white marble. The plain shelf sits above a reeded frieze, which is flanked by endblocks carved with ribboned laurel wreaths.
English, c.1815.

Provenance: Edwardes Square, London.

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

	Width	Height	Depth
	57 11⁄16" 146.5 cms	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms
	39" 99 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 15881

A large and grand pair of Baronial style steel andirons, the knopped brass finials mounted on twisted stems whilst the tongs are formed of talons. A large and good quality set.
English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 11⁄16" 19.5 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	3" 7.5 cms

Stock: 15909

An antique Gothic Revival Hopton Wood stone fireplace of grand proportions. The wide shelf is supported by a carved fleur de lys keystone, which is flanked by trefoil spandrels over a Tudor arch. Twisting pilasters are mounted in front of wide, flat jambs over large footblocks.
English, c.1860.

Shown here with fire basket 15126, sold separately.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72 1⁄2" 184.2 cms	49 1⁄8" 124.8 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	36 11⁄16" 93.2 cms

Stock: 13151

A pair of Victorian terracotta campana garden urns on Doulton plinths, the urns with scalloped and fluted sides and rims mounted on elegantly understated plinths.

English Circa 1870.

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	Width	Height
urns	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
bases	15" 38 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms

Stock: 15999

A set of forty-two Victorian Gothic revival glazed encaustic hearth tiles with stylised Gothic foliate decoration, with impressed marks on the reverse for Godwin Lugwardine, Hereford.
English, circa 1870.

	width	thickness
	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 15912

A large and very finely carved figure of Venus Sortant du Bain, or Venus emerging from her bath. This subject has been immensely popular since classical antiquity, and depicts the Goddess drying herself whilst resting her foot on a rock. This statue would look marvelous on a column or plinth.

This sculpture is after the example made by the French sculptor Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (French, 1710-1795) for Louis XV in 1755. It was later revered at the Salon of 1767 as a masterpiece. This is now at the Louvre.

French, c.1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 15856

A large Victorian arched fireplace in pencil statuary marble. The fireplace features a wide moulded shelf over an arched opening carved with panelled spandrels. The boldly carved acanthus corbels are mounted on panelled jambs over plain footblocks.
English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	76 5⁄8" 194.5 cms	47" 119.5 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	37 1⁄4" 94.8 cms

Stock: 15986

An Italian faience vase in the form of a wine flagon, with hand-painted decoration and an inscription that reads "Vino ve Cante", which has in the past been a table lamp, and could again be converted in workshops.
Italian, mid-20th century.

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Stock: 15973

A delicately carved gilt gesso wall mirror with a foliate frame in the Chippendale manner, with original mirror plate.
English mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	52 5⁄8" 133.5 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 15896

An Aesthetic Movement Bamboo jardiniere planter inset with four J.Moyr Smith for Minton tiles printed with The Waverley pattern including illustrations for Old Mortality, Fortunes of Nigel, Ivanhoe and The Antiquary, printed in black, grey and pale yellow on white with japanned tin liner.
English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms

Stock: 15945

A softly veined arabescato marble fireplace in white and grey. The design is pleasingly simple; the moulded breakfront shelf sits above a stop fluted frieze and acanthus paterae endblocks. These rest on stop fluted console jambs over plain footblocks.
French, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms
Internal	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms

Stock: 15932

A compact Louis XVI carrara marble fireplace with beautiful carved details. The moulded breakfront shelf rests on a panelled frieze which is centred by an acanthus rosette and flanked by acanthus paterae endblocks. These in turn rest on beautifully carved acanthus console jambs.
French, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 15908

A beautifully carved early Victorian fireplace in pure white statuary marble. The plain shelf sits above a panelled frieze which is centred by a delicately carved tablet which is profusely carved with a basket of flowers in high relief. This is echoed in the endblocks, both are carved with a small posy of flowers. The jambs are panelled in the same manner as the frieze and they rest on plain footblocks.
English. c.1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	67 7⁄8" 172.5 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23.2 cms
Internal	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms

Stock: 15889

A magnificent 19th century Oxblood or "Sang de Boeuf" jardiniere on stand, with a large planter supported by a base mounted with three griffin monopodia with paw feet. Attributed to Pierre Clément Massier. French, c.1880. Notes: Clément Massier was born into a family of ceramicists and took an interest in the business from an early age. His factory-gallery complex in Golfe Juan became a destination for the elite who summered in Monaco, Nice, and Cannes. He was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 and subsequently became an of official supplier to the British crown. Sang de boeuf glaze first appeared in Chinese porcelain at the beginning of the 18th century. In Europe, many companies tried to replicate the glaze, and it particularly took off in France.

		Height
		37" 94 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: 15961

A 19th century relief copper electrotype plaque depicting a Coronation, with a Latin inscription from Luke 6:27-36 that translates as "Love your enemies and do good to those who hate you" in original moulded oak frame.
English, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	15" 38 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 15843

A rare and majestic fire basket, depicting a phoenix rising from the flames. The phoenix fire back is mounted above a large four barred grate, which rests on brass andirons. The andirons are surmounted by eagles, and the sinuous feet form winged dragons.
English. c.1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms	22 3⁄16" 56.5 cms

Stock: 15846

A near pair of fine and large Chinese blue and white vase lamps. These beautiful vases were sensitively converted c.1950 and are mounted on giltwood bases. The designs are almost identical, with the same motifs, with a sinuous depiction of the Dragon King, the Chinese God of Weather and Water amongst soft clouds.
Chinese, c.1900 with later conversion.

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	Width	Height	Depth
without shades	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms
with shades	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms