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Stock: 16065

A superb early nineteenth-century Regency library or writing table. The beautifully figured rosewood top sits above a single drawer above octagonal columns which rest on platform bases with concealed castor mounted feet.
English or Scottish, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	53 7⁄8" 137 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 16196

A nineteenth-century steel fire tool stand perfect to accompany a set of fire tools.
English, c.1860.

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Stock: 16185

A very fine nineteenth-century bronze tazza by Barbedienne, after Ferdinand Levillain (1837-1905). The central medallion depicting the shepherds Menalcus and Mopsus from Virgil's Eclogues. This tazza is a wonderful example of the collaboration between Levillain and the bronzier F Barbedienne.
French, c.1870.

	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 14537

A substantial and grand Victorian fireplace in dramatic Belgian black marble. The large and wide moulded shelf sits over a verde antico undershelf, and is centred by a beautifully carved keystone above the slow arch which is emphasised by the spandrels, picked in gold. This is echoes in the generous corbels and jambs, which also have fine carving filled with gold.
English, c.1880.

View our collection of: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	77 13⁄16" 197.5 cms	51" 129.5 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms
Internal	40" 101.5 cms	37 3⁄8" 95 cms

Stock: 16031

An elegant Arts and Crafts copper and brass three branch ceiling light in the manner of W.A.S. Benson. The three copper foliate arms are hung with vaseline / uranium glass bell shades.
English, c.1890.

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	Diameter	Drop
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	35" 89 cms

Stock: 15859

A large and grand Renaissance Revival chimneypiece in Walnut. The inverted breakfront overmantel has a large cornice, which is supported by twin Corinthian freestanding columns. These flank the panelled frieze, which is centred by a beautiful panel carved with fantastical putti holding cornucopia, from which mythical birds pluck fruit. This large overmantel sits above the main chimneypiece, which is also a grand affair. The frieze is evenly placed with both triglyphs and biglyphs between finely carved foliate panels in low relief. Fluted and collared columns on large footblocks support the shelf.
English, c.1880.

View our collection of: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 7⁄8" 187.7 cms	96 1⁄4" 244.5 cms	12 11⁄16" 32.2 cms
Internal	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 16101

A very fine early George III giltwood wall mirror in the manner of Thomas Chippendale, the frame with a finely carved scrolling acanthus crest and trailing foliage with the merest suggestion of the pagoda corners associated with Chippendale's designs. Original gilding.
English, c.1760.

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	Width	Height
	24" 61 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms

Stock: 16154

A rare William IV cast iron register grate. The ornate opening is cast with acanthus scrollwork and frames the rare feature of a cantilever fire basket, which is a mark of great quality.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	depth
	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 16093

A large and grand pair of gilt gesso Victorian overmantel mirrors. The slender spiral fluted frames are surmounted by eagles on rocky outcrops, situated within a thistle decoration.
Provenance: Runnymede Park, Surrey.

English, c.1850.

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	Width	Height
	48" 122 cms	59 13⁄16" 152 cms

Stock: 16079

A 19th century giltwood and gesso framed wall mirror in the Rococo style, with a delicately moulded and scrolling frame of foliate and Rococo design, the mirror plate held with a bound laurel border.
English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 15904

An unusual Belgian fireplace in statuary marble. The deep moulded shelf rests over the frieze and jambs, which have been unified in carving with a wide band of bound laurel in low relief and frames the stepped opening.

Belgian, mid-19th century.

Link to: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Internal	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	31 3⁄16" 79.3 cms

Stock: 16076

A small neoclassical style gilt gesso wall mirror with marginal plates, surmounted by a broken pediment and and a lidded urn.
French, c.1910.

Provenance: Property from a private collection of European Decorative Arts

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	Width	Height
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 16140

A large George II mahogany tripod table of provincial manufacture, with a circular tilt top carved from beautifully figured mahogany, over a turned column and wide splayed legs.
English 1750.

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	Diameter	Height
	37" 94 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 15835

An antique fire basket in the neoclassical style in bright polished steel. The basket has elegant shoulders engraved with garlands of bellflowers which flank the three barred grate which stands over a pierced apron studded with neoclassical paterae. The elegant urnular andirons are surmounted by a pair of lidded urn finials.
English, c.1870.

Link to: Antique fire grates and log baskets.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	30 7⁄8" 78.5 cms	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms
Back width	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 16023

A substantial Victorian cast iron fire basket with a pierced apron and urn topped andirons. Perfect for a fireplace of grand proportions.
English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms	22" 56 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms
Back width	22 3⁄16" 56.5 cms

Stock: 16083

A good George III carved statuary and Siena marble chimneypiece with a games theme! The inverted breakfront shelf sits above a frieze depicting putti playing a game of 'blind man's bluff' within a classical setting. This scene is flanked by endblocks depicting putti playing battledore and shuttlecock, whilst the jambs below show putti skipping over neoclassical vases hung with swags. These sit either side of the generous Siena marble slips.
This is a really unusual chimneypiece with a wonderfully lighthearted subject.

English, c.1790 with later restorations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72" 183 cms	60 5⁄8" 154 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms
Internal	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms	44 3⁄16" 112.2 cms

Stock: 16081

A pair of late 19th century patinated bronze garniture urns cast as models of the Warwick vases. The pedestal bodies with lion pelt and mask-head decoration in high relief and elaborately entwined handles, each raised on a waisted circular fluted socle base, supported on stepped Belgian black marble square plinths, raised on paw feet.

English, c.1880.

Notes: The Warwick Vase was excavated from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, and dates to the second century AD. Hamilton sold the vase to his nephew, the 2nd Earl of Warwick, who built a specially commissioned conservatory in the grounds of Warwick Castle to house it.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 16135

A William IV giltwood rectangular wall mirror with foliate mouldings and foliate cusp half pillars.

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	Width	Height
	28" 71 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 16090

A fine and large Regency cast brass hanging hall lantern of octagonal form, with fine scroll and leafwork, arched windows and a hinged door.
English, c. 1820.

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		Height
		30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 15877

A rare set of plaster intaglios by Nathaniel Marchant. Originally, this set of casts of Nathaniel's gems was sold by subscription with the accompanying catalogue, published in 1792. It is rare to have a collection of any great quantity, this set is complete, bar four intaglios which are not present. They are mounted within their original ebony strung, mahogany case, which is glazed and fashioned as a book, complete with remnants of marbling. When the spine is removed, the interior is revealed.
Complete sets are exceptionally rare, and one set is held at the John Soane Museum, purchased by Soane in 1793.

English, c.1792.

Nathaniel Marchant (1739-1816) was arguably the most famous gem engraver of the 18th century, prolific in both Italy and England. He was gem sculptor to the Prince of Wales and engraver to The King.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Closed	10" 25.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.6 cms
Opened	19 3⁄8" 49.4 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 16082

A fine late 19th century Neapolitan patinated bronze figure of the Venus de Medici after the antique. Likely cast by the Fonderia Sommer, Naples. The Fonderia Sommer offered three different types of patination on their bronzes, as this example features the "Herculaneum Patination", which shows a level of patina and verdigris often seen on ancient bronzes.
Italian, c.1870.

Notes: The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a monumental Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite dating from the 1st-century BC. The sculpture was originally recorded in 1638 at the Medici Villa, Rome and is now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.

The Sommer Foundry was one of the main Neopolitan foundries that manufactured Grand Tour bronzes for the grand-tourists of the nineteenth-century. Giorgio Sommer was a German photographer and artisan and started the foundry in the 1870s.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 16069

A terracotta group of Ariadne and the Panther, after the marble sculpture by Johann Heinrich Dannecker, which was one of the most renowned works of sculpture of the nineteenth-century, drawing huge crowds to view it in Frankfurt, in the "Ariadneum" built solely for its display. It depicts the Cretan princess Ariadne, wife of the god of wine Dionysus, seated on a panther in a relaxed pose. The panther was a creature associated with the god of wine, and here, his wreath of vine leaves emphasizes his connection with the deity.
L Hjorth Factory, Danish, c.1880.

Provenance: Coleridge Collection. Anthony Coleridge was well-known in auction circles, a Director of Christie's as well as Chairman and later President of Christie’s South Kensington. He was a keen collector, not just of furniture, but in particular of works of art and ceramics, and he looked after his collection meticulously and recorded it in considerable detail.

Notes: Johann Heinrich Dannecker(1758-1841), a German sculptor who found that the works of classical antiquity made a deep impression on him, as well as the work of Antonio Canova.

The Hjorth Factory was located in Roenne on Bornholm, and island off Denmark, and was founded in 1859.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms	3 3⁄8" 8.6 cms

Stock: 16068

A Parian Ware group of Ariadne and the Panther, after the marble sculpture by Johann Heinrich Dannecker, which was one of the most renowned works of sculpture of the nineteenth-century, drawing huge crowds to view it in Frankfurt, in the "Ariadneum" built solely for its display. It depicts the Cretan princess Ariadne, wife of the god of wine Dionysus (identified by her crown of vine leaves), seated on a panther in a relaxed pose. The panther was a creature associated with the god of wine.

English, c.1860. Although this example of Parian Ware is unmarked it is the same model produced by Minton & Co in 1847 until the 1860s for Summerly’s Art Manufactures. The model - by John Bell (1811-1895) was available as tourist souvenirs.

Provenance: Coleridge Collection. Anthony Coleridge was well-known in auction circles, a Director of Christie's as well as Chairman and later President of Christie’s South Kensington. He was a keen collector, not just of furniture, but in particular of works of art and ceramics, and he looked after his collection meticulously and recorded it in considerable detail.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	7 3⁄16" 18.4 cms	3 1⁄2" 8.9 cms

Stock: 16100

A pair of nineteenth-century terracotta twin-handled urns painted in black to simulate Josiah Wedgwood's renowned black basalt. Later converted to table lamps with gilt stands and covers and a base fitted with the lamp fitting, leaving the urns unaltered, so they could be displayed in their original format.
German, mid-19th century.

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		Height
		15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms

Stock: 16102

A set of six ornithological copper engravings, depicting five birds drawn and painted by Peter Brown, recorded from specimens collected during Captain Cook's voyages with Joseph Banks. In his publication, Peter Brown asserted that these birds hadn't been recorded before, so these were the first commercially available depictions and descriptions of these birds.
Peter Brown was a leading zoological artist of his day but the ornithologist George Edwards was also a prominent figure in eighteenth-centruy Britain, and this set includes one engraving by him, of a Great Bustard. The set is a beautiful and fascinating record of the great discoveries of their age.

Peter Brown, published by B White, 1775, George Edwards, published c. 1751. Copper-engravings, original hand colour.

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	Width	Height
	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms	10" 25.5 cms

Stock: 16053

A pair of large patinated bronze table lamps in the form of the Townley vase, mounted on Belgian black marble bases with applied bronze adornments.

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.

Shades not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 3⁄8" 16.2 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms

Stock: 16072

A pair of William IV tea tables, with book matched veneered tops in the rare Goncalo Alves, or Brazilian tiger wood, the mirror image of the other. The folding tops are mounted on sweeping hexagonal baluster supports, over swept feet. The tables are on oak carcasses, which is a further mark of quality.
English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth open
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 16104

A pair of late 19th century bronze copies of the Townley Vase, each cast in relief with classical figures, raised upon stepped Belgian black marble plinths with incised gilt foliate detail.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 5⁄8" 14.1 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 16097

A vibrant Heriz wool carpet, from North-west Persia, with a terracotta field with a central floral medallion, within a trailing vine border.
Iranian, c.1950.

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	Width	Height
	73 5⁄8" 187 cms	56 1⁄4" 143 cms

Stock: 15886

A pair of early 20th century Dutch style brass five branch chandeliers, featuring knopped bulbous stem with ring terminals and scrolling branches.
English, c.1900.

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	Diamter	Drop
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 16041

A pair of good quality nineteenth-century ormolu wall lights in the Louis XVI style, topped with ribbons and urns to the backplates. Could easily be converted to electricity, which is included in the price.
English, c.1890.

Provenance: Redlynch House, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	15 1⁄8" 38.4 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 16008

An Aesthetic Movement ebonised and parcel gilt centre or library table by Maple and Co, Tottenham Court Road, London. The gilt and painted panelled frieze with a single lockable draw is decorated with stylised foliage and sunflowers with carver foliate details to the corners. All supported on turned legs and a lower shelf with galleried ends, above a double stretcher with turned spindles. The top edge of the draw is stamped MAPLE & CO.

English, circa 1880.

Established in 1841, Maple and Co were leading makers and retailers of fine furniture, operating from their warehouse and showroom on Tottenham Court Road. They enjoying international acclaim, and had an outfit in Paris in order to satiate the continents appetite for their wares.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 15535

A set of three small silver plated five arm chandeliers in the Dutch Baroque style.
English, c.1930.

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	Diameter	Drop
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 15898

A large and ornate pair of Rococo two branch wall lights in gilt brass, comprising intricately scrolling foliage, and slender arms which are mounted with drip pans in the form of flowers.

English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 16036

A striking 1920s glass lustre chandelier with moulded glass canopy over strings of faceted glass lozenges descending to a bowl constructed of prism rods, hung with further faceted drops and orb. An usual and very striking chandelier of excellent quality, on a silvered frame.

English, c.1920.

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	Diameter	Drop
	15" 38 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms