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Stock: 15601

A late 19th Century Aesthetic transfer printed set of tiles, depicting an with urn brimming with flowers, printed in dark brown. Unmarked, possibly The Decorative Art Tile Company.
English, c.1890.

	Width	Height	Depth
	6" 15.3 cms	6" 15.3 cms	0 1⁄4" 0.8 cms

Stock: 15599

A set of twelve pictorial tiles by John Moyr Smith for Minton. The tiles depict the Idylls of the King, poems about King Alfred written by Tennyson and were first manufactured in 1876. Some of the tiles depict the following characters; Guinevere, Vivien, Gareth, Geraint, Enid et al, whilst others show scenes such as the death of Arthur.

English, c.1876.

	Width	Height	Depth
	6" 15.3 cms	6" 15.3 cms	0 1⁄4" 0.8 cms

Stock: 15542

A large and ornate gilt bronze lamp, modelled as a putto holding the lamp fitting aloft whilst kneeling on a hexagonal base embellished with foliate Rococo decorations.

French, c. 1880.

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		Height	Width
		20 7⁄8" 53 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 15594

A pair of bronze twin handled campana urns in the classical style, with a low relief decoration reminiscent of a Greek Vase. Italian, 20th century.

		Height
		12 3⁄16" 31 cms
		9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 15539

An interesting Arts and Crafts fire basket, the back panel depicting the Day of Judgement within a medieval scene complete with a hilltop castle. God appears from swirling clouds, holding a ladder on which an angel pulls up the souls of the redeemed. In the foreground a crowd gathers around a hole where a man is being plunged into the depths of hell. This figure is intended to be licked by the flames of the fire in the grate, adding to the dramatic effect. The stylised sunflower brass andirons turn slightly outwards and are mounted on tapered legs.

English, c.1890.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	39" 99 cms	13" 33 cms
Back panel	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 15589

A large pair of French Baroque andirons, cast in bronze and partially gilded. The bronze finials are strung with gilded rings and chains and the bulbous bronze centre of the andirons are supported by three gilded and scrolled legs which are mounted on a serpentine base. French, late 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 15587

A pair of antique giltwood wall brackets in the Rococo taste, with a serpentine shelf resting on scrolling acanthus leaves. Perfect as a candle bracket or for small ornaments. Italian, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 15586

An early 19th century pierced steel fender with three rosettes and beaded edges.
English, c.1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	52 13⁄16" 134 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 15583

An elegant oval gilt wall mirror, surmounted by a scrolling cartouche and a cascade of flowers. The egg and dart frame meets the original bevelled glass with a dainty beaded edge. The gilding has been rubbed back to give it a subtle glow.

French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29" 73.7 cms	42" 106.7 cms

Stock: 15582

A grand French Louis XVI gilded overmantel mirror with a cartouche forming the crest, from which emanate sprigs of loosely ribboned laurel. The rest of the frame is decorated with a tightly bound laurel design, very much in the French tradition. The gilding has been deliberately distressed to partially reveal the warm red ground.
French, c.1880.

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	Width	Height
	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	66 7⁄8" 170 cms

Stock: 15577

A pair of late 19th century bronze tazzas, profusely decorated and supported by stylised winged griffin like creatures with the faces of women and clawed feet.
They would look wonderful as part of a table display or stands for fruit or confectionary.

Probably French, c.1880.

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	Width	Height
	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 15574

A very decorative maiolica vase hand painted with a Roman battle scene to the bulbous body. The statement handles have been modelled into winged putti grotesques, much like a figurehead on the bow of a ship. Signed by the renowned Cantagalli workshop in Florence. Italian, late 19th century.

Ulisse Cantagalli was born into a family of potters in Florence. He was obsessed with replicating the fine tin glazed maiolica of the Italian Renaissance, and when he took over the family's factory in Florence he began to specialise in producing reproductions of these exquisite pieces, and also produced his own designs in this style.

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		Height
		24 3⁄8" 62 cms

Stock: 2711

A pair of high backed, deep buttoned leather and mahogany Gainsborough style chairs. The leather has acquired a lovely patina and is fixed in place with decorative with stud work and is supported by square legs and an H stretcher.

English, early 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	26" 66 cms	45" 114.3 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 15561

A rare Regency drop leaf occasional table in solid mahogany, the twin demi-lune drop leaves opening over and folding around an unusual central cylinder, which is mounted on a squat columnar shaft terminating in four lappet carved legs with scrolled feet and their original castors.
English, c.1810.

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	Diameter	Height
	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms

Stock: 15560

A late 18th century, mahogany longcase clock by Joseph Grey of Durham. The case is enriched with satinwood crossbanding, bordered by ebony and box wood stringing. The moulded, inlaid trunk door is flanked by a pair of reeded quarter pilasters over the the generously moulded plinth, on ogeed feet.
The brass arched top dial with gilt pierced spandrels, silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes has a matt centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture. This is flanked by a pair of reeded columns with brass Corinthian capitals, beneath a swan-neck pediment with brass finals and central brass eagle. The four pillar eight day movement strikes the hours on a single bronze bell.
English, circa 1760.

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		Height	Width
		90 3⁄16" 229 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 15559

A pair of very finely carved 19th century alabaster figures of muses, in classical dress, each standing on circular pedestals intricately carved with flowers and beading. The figures after after Antonio Canova's, Dancers, or his Danzatrice con le manu sui fianchi and his danzatrie col dito al mento. Italian, c.1850.

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		Height
		19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 15557

A pair of 19th century Meiji period Imari bottle vases, with handpainted red and blue fan and circular reserves of oriental pheasants and paulownia. A very decorative pair, perfect as single stem vases.

Japanese, mid-19th century. #

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	Diameter	Height
	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	12 3⁄16" 31.1 cms

Stock: 15508

A good example of an early twentieth century time recorder clock in an oak case, serial number 51947. The glass door panel bears the words, "National Time Recorder Co. (Patentees) Blackfriars London. S.E.". The clock face with Roman numerals is set within a wood frame and bears the name "National Time Recorder Co. Ltd. Aquinas St, Stamford St. London EC1". beneath which is a small metal plaque stating "Local service, The National Time Recorder Co Ltd. Phone: Central 3655 . This Time Recorder is in full working order.
English, circa 1935.

Notes: Time Recorders like this one would have been used to record the times workers came in and out of their place of work. The National Time Recorder Co. Ltd (incorporated in 1917, company number 146424, though possibly founded around 10 years earlier in 1907) was one of the two largest UK manufacturers of time recorders. The head office and factory was originally based in Blackfriars London, and moved to the Lagoon Works in St Mary Cray (Orpington) Kent in 1951, on the site of the Blue Lagoon swimming pool which had been damaged during the war. Other branches were established in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield. [Source: World Clocks]

	Width	Height	Depth
	12 1⁄2" 31.8 cms	42" 106.7 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 15553

A pair of large gilt bronze triple branch candelabra in the Louis XV style, ornately cast with foliate motifs and with elegant tapered stems and scrolled feet mounted on a shaped plinth. French, mid 19th century.

	Width	Height
	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	23" 58.3 cms

Stock: 15552

An elegant bronze study of a female dancer with a cold painted green dress, by the French sculptor George Charles Coudray (1883-1932). Impressed with the Société des Bronzes de Paris pastille mark and stamped by the retailer, Tiffany & Co.

French, c.1900.

Notes: La Société des Bronzes de Paris (The Paris Art Bronzes Society) was active between 1875 -1930. This foundry was located in Paris.

		Height
		27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 15551

A very large 19th century twin handled maiolica vase in the form of a wine krater. The exquisite hand painted decoration includes two central cartouches, one depicting Bacchus and Ariadne reclining within an allegorical scene. Bacchus loosely hold his thyrsus, a wand of giant fennel whilst Ariadne embraces him.

On the verso is a depiction of a Bacchic procession, Bacchus holds grapes aloft whilst he rides in a chariot drawn by a lion and a goat, as maenads dance around in ecstasy. These scenes are framed by winged grotesque handles and the entirety of these vase is decorated profusely, including the socle, where a putto is depicted inscribing a tablet.

Italian, c.1890. Possibly Neapolitan. .

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	Width	Height
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 15540

A Doulton Lambeth stoneware jardinière on stand, the pie crust vase is decorated with a stylised blue foliate motifs on an ochre ground. The stand has a raised blue floral decoration in a more traditional manner. English, c.1900

	Diameter	Height
	12" 30.5 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 15468

A large Regency cast iron hob grate of neoclassical design, with integral side panels. English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35" 89 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 15548

A rare pine and composition chimneypiece by Richard Foster of Edinburgh. The chimneypiece is a celebration of the Scottish coast, and painstaking care has been taken to render the sea life and flora with a great deal of accuracy. The composition decoration has also been carefully wood-grained to make it appear like carved pine; this finish is a great survival.
The inverted breakfront shelf sits above a band of composition moulded into acorns and mushrooms, and the frieze is decorated with swags of ribboned bellflowers in the neoclassical taste. Between these swags is the unusual detail of a fan of seaweed at their centre, a request of the patron no doubt.
The central tablet has a floral ribboned swag studded with roses and other small blooms and the centre is filled with a spray of flowers and ferns within a woven basket. The endblocks feature a bound posy of roses and the jambs are decorated with trailing oak leaves and acorns. A very fine thing.

Scottish, c.1800.

Notes:
Richard Foster was born in Canonbie, the Scottish Borders, in 1755. At the age of fourteen, he was recorded as having a bank account in London, presumably as he was serving as an apprentice there, perhaps to the Adam Brothers as they too were in London at this time. In 1785 he returned to Edinburgh, working as a "joiner" and married to the daughter of a wealthy leather merchant. His chimneypieces were sold not only in Scotland, but in the USA, a bold move only a few years after American Independence was declared! This is perhaps why he avoided becoming a prominent figure in Scottish social and intellectual circles, as selling to Britain's former colonies would have been regarded as treachery in many cases. The pine and composition chimneypiece he perfected made the rational principles and beauty of classicism affordable to the growing mercantile and professional class emerging in the 18th century. These clients wished to express their cultural understanding through objects that conveyed the principles they admired, the chimneypiece was one such highly prized object. The Adam brothers (Robert and James) were well known for promoting their designs to the masses, and it is the pine and composition chimneypiece they made for the emerging middle class in Edinburgh that have become synonymous with the "Adam Style". However, Foster was a true master of the technique, and his designs are some of the most delicate and finely manufactured ever made.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 1⁄2" 169 cms	58 1⁄2" 148.6 cms	7 1⁄4" 18.6 cms
Internal	48 1⁄8" 122.3 cms	45 11⁄16" 116 cms

Stock: 15533

A well modelled majolica stand with a brown glaze. Art Nouveau foliate motifs appear to the main body of the stand, female masks to the bulbous centre and curled lion mask feet at the base.
Originally a jardiniere stand but would also be excellent as a display stand.

English, c.1890.

		Height
		28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 15537

A very elegant Regency pine and gesso chimneypiece decorated in the Adam style. The inverted breakfront shelf is decorated with a beaded cornice and sits above an elegant frieze decorated with opposing gryphons holding ribbons of bellflowers in their beaks, centred by urns on stands. The tablet is more naturalistic, with Venus and attendants depicted in a pastoral landscape. The slender endblocks are decorated with classical urns on stands, and rest above the gently fluted pilaster jambs.

English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 3⁄16" 186 cms	61 1⁄8" 155.1 cms	7" 17.7 cms
Internal	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	48" 122 cms

Stock: 15532

An early 20th century century Chinese blue and white porcelain onion pattern table lamp, profusely decorated with a hand painted decoration of chrysanthemums, insects and scrolling leaves and mounted on a pierced patinated bronze base.
Chinese, c.1910.

( shade not included )

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	Diameter	Height
	5 7⁄8" 15 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 15525

A vibrant Ashfar carpet on a deep blue ground, the central red medallion remiscent of an animals' hide.
Iranian, mid 20th century.

Notes: Ashfar carpets are typified by a red and blue colour tones and mostly geometrical patterns. The most common pattern contains a large center piece with one or more squared medallions, some say that this symbolizes a hide stretched for preparation.

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	Length	Width
	98 3⁄8" 250 cms	70 7⁄8" 180 cms

Stock: 15487

A French gilt gesso wall mirror in the Louis XVI style, the crest centred by an oval cartouche which is bordered by a ribbon tied floral cascade and framed by two urn finials brimming with flowers. The gilt frame also features garlanded trophies and to the bottom, a lyre, a violin and sheet music. Original beveled mirror plates.

French, c1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 13544

A large and comfortable William IV mahogany and leather arm chair, with elegant scrolled arms and brass studded upholstery. The legs stand on original brass castors. The leather has acquired a beautiful patina from over a century of use, but this could be refreshed if desired. English, c.1820.

	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms

Stock: 15485

An elegant pedestal, carved from an off-white and grey variegated marble, the circular top over a partially-ribbed cylindrical body, on a stepped circular and octagonal base.

Early 20th century.

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	Diameter	Height
Top	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms
Bottom	13" 33 cms

Stock: 15519

A very fine English 19th century giltwood mirror in the Florentine manner, with a beautifully carved frame of scrolling acanthus leaves. Original mercury glass.

English, c.1850.

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	Width	Height
	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 cms

Stock: 15433

A superb Victorian walnut and solid ebony Gothic library table. This outstanding table is made especially rare by having solid ebony legs, stretcher and finials. The beautifully carved Solomonic legs and stretcher support a fine burr walnut top.

This table is incredibly diverse, and can be used as a centre table, or even a desk.
English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms

Stock: 15516

A set of four Victorian cast iron garden chairs, with spoon backs featuring crisply cast decoration above circular seats cast with a radiating circular pattern and resting on elaborate cabriole shaped legs. This is not an identical set, as is formed form 2 very similar pairs. Very much in the Coalbrookdale style, and would work well as a patio set as they are very heavy.

English, c.1880

Photographs before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 15511

A rare and perfectly detailed live steam scale model of a rotative vertical reciprocating beam engine with James Watt type parallel motion linkage. This hand-built engine has been made from burnished steel, cast iron and bronze, which has developed a good patina from over a century of enjoyment. It also retains its original paint and comes with its original carrying case. The single Mahogany clad double action, low pressure cylinder has a stroke of 2 5/8 inches and a bore of 1 1/8 of an inch, the piston produces power on both the upward and downward strokes. The fly wheel measures 11 inches in diameter and the beam, pivoting on a single bronze column, measures 8 1/4 inches. This engine was built between 1865 and 1870, most probably as an apprentice piece, or for demonstrating the workings of this type of engine. It is mounted on a Mahogany plinth with a brass plate with the inscription “MADE BY ROBERT GILCHRIST OF BERWICK ON TWEED 1865 1870”

English, circa 1870.

Scottish engineer, James Watt invented His parallel motion mechanical linkage for the double acting Watt steam engine in 1784. In a letter to his son written in 1808 James Watt wrote “I am more proud of the parallel motion than of any other invention I have ever made”. Watts' new double acting engines were powered by steam on both the upward and downward strokes, along with his parallel motion, these engines were much more efficient than previous engines built by Thomas Newcomen and Watt.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	11" 28 cms