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Stock: 15231

An Edwardian, Arts and Crafts oak fire surround. The crenelated cornice, supported by a pair of turned columns, rests above a recessed frieze and mantle shelf. The frieze is set with five painted panels depicting Medieval York including the ‘bar’ or city walls, streets and gateways; the ruins of St Mary's Abbey and York Minster itself. A Tudor style arch frames the fireplace opening flanked by a pair of simple tapering columns on the jambs. English, circa 1910.

Photos before cleaning and polishing.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	75 5⁄8" 192 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.6 cms
Internal	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms

Stock: 15226

A stained and leaded glass window panel, possibly representing the paternal arms of the Grosvenor Crest, depicting a talbot dog atop a helm set in a field of multiple coloured glass sections held in a later stained pine frame. The quarterings include a crescent and star mark of cadency above the motto Virtus Non Stemma which translates as Valour Not Garland and is the Duke of Westminster's motto at his Eaton Hall Estate. English, 17th century and later.

Provenance: By repute removed from a chapel on a Grosvenor Estate.

Notes: The talbot dog, now extinct, was a type of hunting dog and probably the ancestor of the beagle or bloodhound and is often used in heraldry to represent a good-mannered hunting dog. The cadency marks the status of a younger branch of a family.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 1⁄4" 84.5 cms	49 13⁄16" 126.5 cms	2 11⁄16" 6.8 cms

Stock: 7237

A single Statuary marble ornamental Corinthian capital in the Neoclassical style with carved rosettes and acanthus leaf detail.
English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 11802

A large campana urn in bold purple- veined pavonazzo marble. Italian, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Top	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms
Bottom	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms

Stock: 11376

A fine, late 18th century antique fireplace surround in Statuary marble with Spanish Brocatelle marble fluting and ingrounds. The breakfront shelf rests on a frieze with inlaid Brocatelle marble fluting, which is interspersed by delicately carved rosette paterae. The frieze is flanked by endblocks carved with pillar vases and trailing leaves above tapering fluted jambs raised on stepped footblocks.
English circa 1780.

Known provenance.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 1⁄4" 176 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	6" 15.3 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 104.8 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 11330

A pair of small carved walnut lion monopodia terms or columns in the Roman Baroque manner. English, 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 14055

A very large, early 20th century, cast iron fireback modelled on the earliest dated Wealden design of 1641. Cast with the Royalist symbols of a lion passant surrounded by the Scottish Thistle, the English Rose and the French Fleur de Lys. Probably the most familiar of Wealdon firebacks and much reproduced in succeeding centuries.
English circa 1930.

Please note an old crack runs down the left hand side.

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	width	height	depth
	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 6591

A tall carved mahogany glazed bookcase or collectors cabinet in the Robert Adam late Georgian manner. There is a blind fret carved design on the cornice over two full length astragal glazed doors, with Rams heads carved on the lower apron, supported on Adam style carved shell cabrioles over ball and claw carved feet. English, late 19th century.

The interior to be silk lined in a James Hare silk fabric.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	63" 160 cms	86" 218.4 cms	17" 43.2 cms

Stock: 14952

A pair of gilt brass, three branch, Rococo style wall lights. The entwined, acanthus clad scrolling arms, emanate from an ornate backplate and support the leaf wrapped, candle holders. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 11640

An Arts & Crafts embossed copper rectangular plaque in the manner of the Newlyn School, with a galleon in full sail and bearing a monogram SO or OS and set in an oak frame.
English, circa 1910

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	width	height
	19" 48.2 cms	23" 58.5 cms

Stock: 14237

A pair of bronze 19th century Scottish shop signs. The scrolled cartouche shaped signs are centred, on the central bulbous lozenge, by the initials DI representing the Edinburgh based Dunedin Interiors company. Scottish, mid 19th century.

Provenance: Formerly hung in 6 North West Circus Place, Edinburgh and later in Austin Reed on Princess Street.

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	width	height
	13" 33 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 12387

A small bronze vase or urn elaborately decorated in the manner of the Chinese Shang Dynasty.
Mid 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 4270

A fine, large Victorian roundel of a Golden Eagle perched on a rocky crag, carved from solid oak.
English circa 1890.

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	diameter
	27" 68.6 cms

Stock: 15357

A George III, profusely carved giltwood wall mirror in the Rococo style. The broken swan neck pediment is centred by a carved foliate crest. The scrolling, latticed frame is embellished with ornately carved flowers, fruit and acanthus leaves. English, circa 1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	2" 5 cms

Stock: 14838

A large pair of elaborate three branch brass wall lights in the Rococo manner with acanthus clad arms and foliate candle holders.
English, early 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	26" 66 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 15115

A very fine pair of tall French Baroque style brass firedogs. The central columns, surmounted by flambeau urn finials, are flanked by pairs of attached stylised dolphins above winged grotesque masks and raised on sturdy arched feet.

French, late 19th Century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 15279

A very beautiful Louis XVI style Pavonazzo Marble chimneypiece. The finely carved frieze, of interlocking floral roundels beneath the moulded stepped shelf, is flanked by floral endblocks above panelled volute jambs. Each jamb is topped with tumbling carved acanthus leaf detail and rests on sturdy footblocks. French, late 19th century..

Notes: Pavonazzo Marble is one of the many varieties of white Carrara marble and is valued for its fine black, grey, violet and honey veining. The name derives from the Italian word for peacock (pavone) and it is also referred to as Pavonazzetto. It has been used by the Romans since around 43 BC when quarrying began at Docimium and can be seen in the House of Augustus, as well as in the Temple of Mars and many of the grand Roman villas.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58 7⁄8" 149.5 cms	47 1⁄8" 119.7 cms	13 7⁄8" 35.2 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	36 1⁄2" 92.7 cms

Stock: 15166

A Louis XV cast iron fireplace insert with ornate floral, strapwork ornamentation on a fleur de lys cross hatched field. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms
Internal	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 7871

An impressive and large Belgian Black Marble.Louis XV Rococo fireplace mantel. The richly carved serpentine frieze is centred by a dramatic, scrolled floral cartouche, flanked by panelled spandrels and generous 'C' scrolled endblocks above scrolled angled, acanthus clad jambs. French, circa 1850

(photos before restoration and more to follow).

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	width	height	depth
external	65 1⁄2" 166.4 cms	47" 119.4 cms	13 1⁄2" 34.3 cms
internal	45" 114.3 cms	37 1⁄2" 95.2 cms

Stock: 4922

A pair of small, carved oak Jacobean heads of a noble man and woman probably once the figure heads on a pair of chimneypiece caryatids. Some wear and splits in the wood commensurate with age - a/f.
English, late 17th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 15298

A large and beautiful antique giltwood sunburst centred by a carved mask, mounted on a trompe l'oeil roundel, of the Greek God Apollo as a personification of the Sun. Radiating out from the mask are twenty two sun rays linked to a giltwood framed circle of further trompe l'oeil set with four giltwood bosses. It is likely to have once been a ceiling adornment in a grand Italian palazzo.
Italian, 18th century or earlier.

Photos before restoration.

Notes: Apollo was a Greek Roman deity and one of the Twelve Olympians. Recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth, healing, the Sun and light, poetry and prophecy he was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

Link to: Antique sculptures, carvings, bronzes, plaques and tablets one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.[1]

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	Diameter	Depth
	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 15023

A Louis XVI style cast iron Victorian fireplace insert with acanthus leaves and floral detail with the cross hatching. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	35" 89 cms	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms
Internal	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 15383

A tall, highly ornate gilt brass and mesh Rococo style antique fire screen. The central panel embellished with an applied putti on a swing. The scrolling frame is surmounted by a foliate handle and is supported by two pairs on acanthus clad feet.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	23 3⁄8" 59.5 cms	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 14356

A fine Statuary Marble Victorian chimneypiece with grey/green Verde Antico Marble inlay very much in the George III manner. The wide moulded shelf, with an underlay of dentil detail, rests above an inlaid Greek Key frieze with a central tablet of an urn surmounted by a pair of mythical styled sphinx. The rosette paterae on the end blocks are set above inlaid fluted pilasters fronting the jambs. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 11⁄16" 182 cms	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms
Internal	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 cms

Stock: 13877

A pair of small Victorian oak panels in the Renaissance style with water nymphs and birds hidden amidst profusely carved foliage above panels of lotus flowers floating on a lake.
English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	0 7⁄8" 2.3 cms

Stock: 12105

A large pair of Neoclassical stripped pine caryatid, possibly once part of a fireplace surround. The figures appear to be female their upper bodies draped in tasseled shawls.English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
each jamb	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	11" 28 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 11475

A small, carved alabaster sculpture of a Middle Eastern gentleman possibly Saladin (the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria), raised on a black marble plinth. The figure may have been cut down from a full size figure please see the last image below.
Early 19th, possibly late 18th century.

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		height without plinth	height with plinth
		7 1⁄2" 19 cms	9 1⁄2" 24.1 cms

Stock: 14953

A set of three Baroque style two branch ormolu wall lights. The backplates are centred by bearded, grotesque masks, each wearing acanthus leaf crowns, from which emanate twin scrolling arms supporting urn candle holders.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 11367

A pair of Victorian arched ceramic parapets. They would be an attractive addition to a garden. Some chips a/f.
Provenance: 298 Bishopsgate in the City Of London built between 1877-1890 and demolished in 1980.

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	width	Height	depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 7136

A small marble plaque of a imperious Roman senator carved in low relief.
Circa 1960.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10" 25.4 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms

Stock: 15266

A delicately veined blue/grey and white Breccia Marble antique chimneypiece in the French Empire style with a slow arched opening and deep side returns. French, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	50 1⁄4" 127.7 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
Internal	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 15252

A very large Bidjar carpet centred by a double lozenge design filled with the traditional small floral motifs in deep reds and blues. The name is taken from Bidjar, or Bijar, a small Kurdish town in north western Iran where the carpets are made many in the surrounding villages. As the weavers tie each knot they add an extra weft and use their heavy metal and wood combs to beat the weft and the knots down which makes the carpets strong and very durable and this stiff, heavy foundation creates carpets that can withstand many years of heavy use. Because of this they are known as “the iron rugs of Persia”.
Persian, mid 1950s.

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	Width	Length
	91 1⁄4" 232 cms	140 3⁄16" 356 cms

Stock: 3977

A large Scottish Regency carved giltwood overmantel mirror, the scrolled cockaded pediment over high relief carved floral and lozenge decoration. With the original mercury glass plate.
Scottish, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Maximum Depth
	75 11⁄16" 192.4 cms	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 14561

A set of four pairs traditional Georgian style antique bronze door handles.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	7 1⁄8" 18 cms		2 1⁄2" 6.3 cms
Internal

Stock: 14504

A large and sturdy Victorian copper with studied side panels, which can be used as a log bin or a jardiniere
English, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	12 13⁄16" 32.5 cms