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Stock: 15261

A pair of small Neoclassical style polished fossil marble urns in tones of soft brown and aubergine, possibly Connemara Red Marble, with an abundance of marine fossils throughout and each with a gilt brass anthemion style mounting to the base. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms	15" 38 cms	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms

Stock: 15274

A small 20th century Neoclassical style Statuary Marble chimneypiece in the manner of Adam with a Sienna Marble frieze and ingrounds. The frieze is centred by a Statuary Marble tablet which features a pair of seated cherubs either side of a bust of Homer within a classical landscape. One cherub has a hand on Homers forehead, the other has a hand on an open book and both are holding bones the whole possibly a representation of Learning. The tablet is flanked by a pair of carved ewers on the endblocks set above jambs fronted by elegant Statuary ionic pilasters raised on neat footblocks. Removed from a house in Cornwall. English, mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62" 157.5 cms	51 1⁄8" 129.7 cms	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms
Internal	38 1⁄4" 97.3 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 15287

An early 20th century burr walnut serpentine pedestal desk, containing an arrangement of nine short dovetailed drawers, which rest on shapely cabriole legs. Original green tooled leather top. English, c.1910.

	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31" 78.8 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms
Knee hole	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 14201

A very large 20th century cut glass chandelier in the Regency style with a central glass and brass stem from which emanate 24 scrolled glass branches profusely hung with cut crystal drops and beads.
French, circa 1950.

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	Diameter	Drop
	50" 127 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 13937

A pretty Edwardian cut glass & brass chandelier with an acanthus leaf corona from which are suspended bead chains above an ornate brass gallery supporting a pair of scrolled candle arms and hung with three tiers of cut glass icicle drops. English, early 20th century.

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	diameter	drop
	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 14741

A very tall pair of Arts and Crafts andirons with bronze finials, decorated with finely cast pierced entwined fruit and flowers, all supported on lion paw feet.

English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	37" 94 cms	3 1⁄2" 9 cms

Stock: 14790

A 42 foot run of Walnut marquetry dado panelling consisting of arched panels, pilasters and two open bookcases. The ornately framed arched panels, inlaid with rosewood, pear, satinwood, burr elm and stained sycamore woods, depict Elysian scenes of nymphs reclining on boughs, stylised galleons, urns and cornucopia of fruits amid trailing floral and foliate frondrils and sprigs.
Provenance: Removed from 24 Portland Place, London W1B.
English, circa 1880.

Photos before restoration

	run	height
	503 7⁄8" 1280 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms

Stock: 14778

An Arts and Crafts stone bird bath or garden ornament. The wide bowl rests on carved effigies of three angels pointing to heaven supported by a stone socle plinth. Around the foot of the plinth are the Gratias Tibi Domine (Thanks be to God) and the initials G K & D.
English, 19th century.

Photos before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	49 5⁄8" 126 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 7686

A delicate Louis XVI style veined Statuary Marble and gilt ormolu antique fireplace mantel. The panelled frieze,with ormolu bell flower swags, is flanked by square ormolu paterae end blocks supported on stop fluted pilaster jambs decorated with ormolu husks.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	42" 106.7 cms	17 3⁄16" 43.8 cms
Internal	40 11⁄16" 103.5 cms	32" 81.3 cms

Stock: 11889

A cast lead garden figure of a curly haired child, in the 18th century manner of John Cheere, with hand to ear and head inclined listening perhaps to birdsong and raised on a spreading circular socle base. Possibly made at the H. Crowther, Foundry in Chiswick, London.

English, early 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	26" 66 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 14384

A pair of Baroque style polished brass models of the Marley Horses after Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746).

English, early 20th century.

Notes: The original pair were carved in Carrara Marble and were over three meters high and were commissioned in 1739 for the park of the Chateau De Marly. They were moved in 1795 to the Place de la Concord in Paris where they remained for two centuries but were moved again in 1985 to the Marly Sculpture Courtyard at the Louvre Museum and a concrete pair replaced them in the Place de la Concord. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	7 11⁄16" 19.5 cms

Stock: 12880

A delightful, early and rare Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) charity collection box of a dog painted brown and seated on a green painted base. The dog looks to be carved in resin. A collection box hangs around his neck bearing the words 'The RSPCA Invites Your Support' and the green base states that 'A coin will ring the bell'. Happily the bell still rings when you drop a coin in the box. These collection boxes would have stood in doorways of shops to catch the eye of passers by.
English, late 19th century.

Notes: The Charity was founded in 1824 in a London coffee shop. It was the world's first animal welfare charity. and was originally called the SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Royal patronage followed in 1837 and Queen Victoria gave permission to add the royal R in 1840, making it the RSPCA as it is known worldwide today.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms

Stock: 11203

A green painted wrought iron four seater Victorian garden bench in the Georgian manner. Photo before restoration.
English, circa 1890.

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	width	height	depth
	72" 183 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 15263

A Regency style brass fire tool stand with a ring handle above a reeded stem and triangular footplate. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 13277

A large Edwardian terracotta garden urn attributed to the Garnick Fireclay Company, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The body with ribbon-tied oak leaf bands on lobed undersides above a waisted socle and square section base, the base stamped with the name Garnick. Probably once one of a pair.
Scottish, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms

Stock: 9752

An elegant, understated and refined English Regency chimneypiece in white Statuary Marble. The moulded shelf supported on finely fluted panelled jambs under triple carved circular rosettes on the endblocks. English, circa 1830.

Photo before restoration

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	width	height	depth
External	73 3⁄8" 186.5 cms	46 3⁄8" 117.8 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	49 13⁄16" 126.5 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms

Stock: 10438

A large and rare, English Rococo, finely carved Statuary Marble tablet of the infant Eros asleep under trees on a bank beside a river in an Elysian landscape set within scrolling borders. It may have once been the central feature on the frieze of a grand chimneypiece. The last image, rather blurred I'm afraid, shows a similar tablet that was from a chimneypiece in Blair Castle, in Pitlochry Scotland.
Carved by Thomas Carter, English, c.1755.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	3" 7.5 cms

Stock: 15260

A striking 19th Century serpentine brass and steel fender, with a geometric pierced decoration framed with bands of brass. English, c.1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	54 1⁄8" 137.5 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Internal	52 3⁄16" 132.5 cms

Stock: 15248

A fine Regency steel and brass register grate. The top and sides are mounted with acanthus clad turned brass rods which slot into the bullseye endblocks and footblocks. The recessed, bowfronted toothed grate sits above a brass apron embellished with a pair of opposing seated griffin amid anthemion and foliate scroll motifs. English, early 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	40" 101.5 cms	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 15249

A pair of very tall Baroquqe style bronze and steel andirons with lobed mask finials above baluster columns with triform bases raised on large twin scrolled iron feet.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms

Stock: 11363

An attractive demi lune, inlaid wood marquetry panel depicting eighteenth century figures in silhouette taking tea al fresco in a Fete Champetre landscape. This type of panel would have been made for use in the trade to illustrate different woods for the perusal of clients. English, circa 1930.

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	width	height	depth
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.5 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 14124

A pair of cast iron Victorian fireplace panels with panelled geometric motifs each centred by a cherub mask in the Neoclassical style.
English, circa 1700.

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	width	height	depth
	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 9500

A charming mahogany Regency overmantel mirror with attached Tuscan columns either side of the original plate glass, supporting a stepped cornice.
English, 1830.
Provenance: The Old Rectory, Rivenhall, near Colchester.

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	width	height	depth
	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 15246

A high backed Adam style cast iron hob grate with classical figural and foliate decoration, the backplate set with boldly figured rosette roundels.
English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 15250

A pair of decorative Edwardian polygon shaped stained glass window panels each with a central florally styled motif. English, circa 1910.

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	width	height
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 8153

A very large Baroque style Victorian bolection chimneypiece in darkly hued Ashburton Marble. The wide simply moulded shelf rests above a deep panelled frieze beneath which is a flat moulded bolection surround centred by a keystone supported on integral footblocks. English, circa 1850.

Image before restoration.

Ashburton Marble: In 1852 a Devon newspaper 'The Western Times', reported that some large blocks of marble had been excavated from quarries adjoining the ancient Stannary Town of Ashburton. It was suggested at the time that the marble be used for the making of chimneypieces as the veins and colour were considered very decorative and superior to that found in any other quarry in South Devon.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	90 3⁄16" 229 cms	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms
Internal	66 1⁄8" 168 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 15197

A tall cast iron pictorial fireback, with a typical Dutch style high shaped back, depicting Greek soldiers in a rural setting beneath a swagged shell and framed by floral and foliate detail. Dutch, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms

Stock: 14950

An early 20th century Neoclassical style Statuary and Sienna Marble chimneypiece. The Sienna panelled frieze beneath the stepped moulded shelf is centred by a carved Statuary Marble plaque depicting Venus and Cupid. Finely carved floral paterae adorn the endblocks above tapering, panelled Sienna columns on the jambs. English, circa 1930.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 1⁄4" 155.7 cms	51 1⁄2" 130.8 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.6 cms
Internal	36 1⁄8" 91.8 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 15207

A smart set of Victorian steel firetools consisting of a shovel, a pair of tongs and a poker. shafts. Each with barley twist shafts and facted knopped handles. The spade of the shovel is cut in an oval stylised floral design. English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 3⁄16" 15.8 cms	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms

Stock: 15203

A large and wide Gothic Revival cast iron Victorian fire grate with barley twist front bars, globe finials and a pair of sturdy splayed footed standards spiral stems beneath fleur de lys finial.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 14868

A monumental Regency stoneware urn, in the manner of the antique. This magnificent urn recalls the form of an Ancient Greek krater - a large vessel for mixing wine. The entire urn is dedicated to the God of Wine Bacchus (Dionysus), with a band of fruiting vines to the neck, underneath which is high-relief frieze depicting a Bacchic procession or thiasus, with revellers carrying cups of wine, bunches of grapes and the other trappings of a hedonistic feast. The serpents fashioned into handles are characteristic of Bacchic iconography and they are often associated with Bacchus, as Maenads - female followers of the God - wore snakes in their hair.

This urn is unlike any other we have come across, but echoes the popularity of themes from classical antiquity, made even more popular by the phenomenon of the Grand Tour. The great engraver and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi even produced an engraved volume solely dedicated to the designs of urns in the antique style. He then manufactured urns in his Italian workshops. In England, the famous manufacturer Eleanor Coade and designers such as Thomas Hope also produced urns in the antique manner for an eager public.

The urn is made from a weather impervious stoneware, similar to the famous Coade stone. Restoration to the handles has been carried out.


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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms
Base	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 14650

A serpentine fronted cast iron and brass antique fire grate in the late Georgian manner of Thomas Elsley of London. The a high shaped backplate is centred by an oval medallion surrounded with ribbons and swags of bellflowers. The bow fronted three bar grate, surmounted by a pair of fine urn finials above applied brass ropes of descending bellflowers flanked by sunburst designs, is supported by a pair of tall out-swept bulbous stemmed standards raised on splayed feet. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Back width	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 7566

A grand 17th century Italian bolection fireplace, carved from a beautiful Rosso Verona marble. The scrolled bracketed frieze supporting a large moulded shelf over a deeply moulded Bolection on plain footblocks. A near pair available.

Italian, 17th century bolection surmounted by a later entabluture and shelf.

Provenance: From an Italian Palazzo.

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	width	height	depth
external	81" 205.7 cms	75 11⁄16" 192.4 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms
internal	56 3⁄16" 142.8 cms	51 3⁄8" 130.5 cms

Stock: 9240

A grand and impressive Palladian style chimneypiece in finely carved Portland Stone. The wide shelf carved in high relief with an undershelf of repeating acanthus leaf motif, over boldly scaled egg and dart over lambs tongue detail. The main ingrounds carved with continuous guilloche motif. The whole is supported on large, sturdy footblocks. Rebuilt using original 19th century elements. Provenance: Removed from a building in the City of London.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	112 13⁄16" 286.5 cms	87 5⁄8" 222.5 cms	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms
Internal	65 3⁄16" 165.7 cms	63 11⁄16" 161.7 cms

Stock: 15211

A pair of unusually large and highly ornate Gothic Revival brass firetools consisting of a poker and a pair of tongs with cut barley twist and cruciform handles and a plain shaped shovel. English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	4 13⁄16" 12.2 cms	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms