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Stock: 4226

A tall 18th century finely carved wood and polychrome figure of the Bohemian saint St. John Nepomuk(1345-1393). He was purportedly the confessor to the Queen of Bohemia and at the request of King Wenceslaus(1361-1419), King of the Romans and Bohemia, was drowned in the Vltava River in Prague for refusing to divulge the secrets of the confessional. Nepomuk is also believed to be the protector against floods and troubled waters and is considered a patron saint of bridges.
Bohemian, early 17th century but could possibly be earlier. (a/f)

Notes: Not the "Good King Wenceslaus"(907-935) of legend who is sung about in the carol of the same name whose life was based on the life of the historical Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia or Svatý Václav in Czech.

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	width	height	depth
	19 13⁄16" 50.2 cms	64" 162.6 cms	11" 27.9 cms

Stock: 13954

A 20th century Regency style cut glass nine branch chandelier. The shaped glass stem issuing nine arms over two graduated tiers and hung with cut glass drops.
English, mid 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 13950

A pair of Victorian, Baroque style antique brass wall lights with flambeau shaped glass shades the light controls with pineapple tipped finials. Former gasoliers converted to electricity. English, late 19th century.

There are two other identical pairs SNos 13948 & 13949.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 12257

A set of three large engraved prints attributed to the artist Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923) the etcher William Henry Boucher (1842- 1906) and the artist and engraver James Dobie (1849-1923), featuring early Victorian gentlefolk each framed within gilt mounts under glass and all published by H Lebebvre, King Street, London 1895, 1898, 1908 & 1915 .

One depicting an elderly lady and her young female attendant quilting beside a fireplace, signed to the margin Walter Dendy Sadler and the engraver W.H.Bouchet with a vignette of a four-poster bed.

Another depicting three gentlemen seated around a table, attended by a manservant, reliving the Battle of Waterloo signed to the margin Walter Dendy Sadler and the engraver James Dobie with a vignette of Wellington with the Battle of Waterloo in the backgroud.

The third with three further gentlemen seated around a table 'Passing the Port' in front of a neoclassical chimneypiece, signed to the margin Walter Dendy Sadler and the engraver James Dobie with a vignette of the three staggering home at the end of a happy evening.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	2" 5 cms

Stock: 14002

A small 20th century, continental style four branch cut crystal chandelier the frame with bead chains attached and profusely hung throughout with drops and pendants.
French, late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
Without Chain	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	26" 66 cms
With Chain		48 3⁄8" 123 cms

Stock: 14246

A very finely carved Neoclassical style antique pine chimneypiece. The shelf, with floral under carving, egg and dart and dentl borders, rests above a delicate stop fluted frieze centred by a large central plaque depicting an allegorical scene of a seated goddess, possibly Eileithyia the Greek Goddess of Childbirth, surrounded by children gathering fruits. The foliate detailed endblocks rest on Ionic capitals above tapering panels with vine entwined rods on the jambs. The opening with an embellished floral edging.
English, early to mid 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 14748 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄8" 180.5 cms	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	43 3⁄16" 109.8 cms
Bottom width	63 7⁄8" 162.3 cms

Stock: 14830

A substantial Victorian, Baroque style antique cast iron fire grate with knopped, side supports, a high arched backplate, and sturdy shaped standards.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 10307

A Regency statuary marble tablet representing the marriage of Cupid and Psyche. The couple is veiled and Cupid holds a dove whilst they are accompanied by three putti, holding a torch, a basket of fruit and a stool for their wedding ceremony. This is based on the onyx cameo made by Tryphon during the Roman Late Republican or Early Imperial Period (50–25 B.C.). This cameo once belonged to Peter Paul Rubens and was inventoried in both the collection of the Duke of Arundel and the Duke of Malborough in the 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.6 cms	1 3⁄8" 3.5 cms

Stock: 14768

A large Victorian arched cast iron antique fireplace insert or register grate with an integral bowed two bar grate.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.5 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 14737

A Baroque style Ashburton Marble antique Bolection fireplace surround in the soft pale pinks and greys typical of the finer examples of this marble most likely to have come from the Lindhay Quarry in Devon in south west England.
English, late 19th century.

Notes: 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. This marble was still being quarried at the Linhay Quarry into the late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58" 147.2 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms
Internal	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 7546

'The Choice of Heracles'. A carved Statuary Marble chimneypiece tablet or plaque depicting the Greek hero Heracles (Roman Hercules) at the moment in which he was offered to choose an easy peaceful life or a turbulent glorious life by the two allegorical figures Vice and Virtue. He chose the latter.
English, late 18th early.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.6 cms	1 3⁄8" 3.5 cms

Stock: 15168

A set of three Arts & Crafts brass & copper fire irons with shepherds hook style handles and barley twist stems. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	1 3⁄8" 3.5 cms

Stock: 9083

A compact twelve branch two tier Baroque patinated brass chandelier with the distinctive scrolling leaf wrapped arms and baluster stem terminating in a large brass globe. This chandelier can be adapted for electricity
Dutch, late 18th century.

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	Width	Height
	26" 66 cms	26" 66 cms

Stock: 14791

A pair of tall, curved silver plated copper Victorian fireplace side panels in the Georgian manner. Each with a trio of cherubs surrounded by scrolling foliate detail and supporting a central banner across which is the motto ' Fiat LVI ' ring which roughly translates as ' Let there be light '.

English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each panel	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 8001

A small Louis XIV Baroque style antique fireplace surround in rich, warm red and white variegated Languedoc Marble. The moulded shelf set above a serpentine, panelled frieze resting on corbelled tapering jambs. French, mid 19th century.

Shown here with andirons SNo 11812 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	39" 99 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms

Stock: 14071

An early 20th century seven light gilt brass chandelier in the neoclassical style. The curved rods, descending from an anthemion leaf corona hold the reeded band on which are mounted the torchere style lights each with their original glass flambeau shades.
English, early 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	26" 66 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 14295

A very wide brass mounted and mesh Victorian nursery fireplace fender, with a top galleried rail surmounted by four knopped finials, raised on neat turned feet.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	59 3⁄8" 151 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms
Internal	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms

Stock: 14264

A highly ornate and heavy, brass Regency fireplace fender with alternating cut acanthus leaf and palmette detail held between polished brass bands raised on three neat acanthus decorated feet.

English, early 19th century.

Provenance: By repute the Earls of Warwick. There was an identical fender in the Red Drawing Room of the historic Medieval Warwick Castle before extensive renovation work was carried out in 2002. It is highly probable that it is one and the same fireplace fender. The third image shows it in the fireplace behind a fire screen in the early part of the 20th century.

Notes: Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England, with its turbulent history, dates back to the 13th century when it was the home of the de Beauchamp family. It came under the stewardship of the Earls of Warwick and later the Greville family in the early part of the 17th century and remained as their private home until 1978. The property was then taken over by The Tussauds Group, which later became Merlin Entertainments Group in 2007 and remains under their guardianship today.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	13" 33 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms

Stock: 14667

A Georgian pierced and engraved polished steel, bow fronted antique fireplace fender. The ornate fretwork with a central urn flanked by cherubs riding mythical horses with further prancing horses and a pair of parrots amid scrolling foliage.

English, late 18th.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	10 13⁄16" 27.5 cms

Stock: 14764

An English Regency D shaped, decoratively cut and pierced steel antique fireplace fender, with brass top and bottom bands, raised on three large brass ball feet. Provenance: Originally removed from an Oxfordshire Manor House.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms

Stock: 14593

An unusually elaborate Rococo, Louis XV style Belgian black marble antique fireplace surround, with gilded detail throughout. The serpentine moulded shelf rests above a deep panelled frieze which is centred by an elaborate rocaille style cartouche and flanked by deeply carved large foliate endblocks. The jambs with large carved scrolling detail supported on shaped footblocks. Belgian, 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	87" 221 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal	64 3⁄16" 163 cms	41 1⁄8" 104.5 cms

Stock: 14039

A Victorian antique cast iron fireplace insert or stove front with hand painted tiles by William Morris. English, with registration mark for 1862.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms
Internal	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms

Stock: 13985

An attractive bronze antique adjustable fireplace fender with a pair of highly ornate tall chenets linked by a fender bar with pieced rosette detail and a central cresting mount.

French, late 19th century

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	Full Width	Height	Depth
	47 1⁄2" 120.6 cms	19" 48.3 cms	5" 12.7 cms

Stock: 14789

A tall and substantial Victorian mahogany fireplace surround and overmantel in the Baroque style. The plain frieze beneath a dentilled under-shelf, centred by a cabochon and mythical beast plaque, is flanked by carved endblocks above reeded columns raised on tall footblocks. The overmantel with a moulded shelf above a dentil band and with a strapwork and foliate decorated panel flanked by tapering reeded pilasters beneath alternating lion masks and oval medallion bands. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65 11⁄16" 167 cms	82 7⁄8" 210.5 cms	8 5⁄8" 21.8 cms
Internal	43" 109.3 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 14761

An antique polished steel and ormolu mounted serpentine fireplace fender centred by an ormolu scrolled anthemion cartouche and resting on foliate ormolu feet.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	6 1⁄2" 16.5 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 14784

A fine Art Nouveau style antique walnut door with beautiful marquetry panels depicting Elysian scenes in rosewood, pear, satinwood, burr elm, stained sycamore and purple heart; together with their intricately carved casements. The reverse side of the door is panelled mahogany. Known provenance. English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Frame	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	92 11⁄16" 235.5 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Door	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms	85 13⁄16" 218 cms

Stock: 14027

A classically styled ornate antique brass French fireplace fender. The pierced linking front bar is flanked by a pair of finial mounted chenets.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	13" 33 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 14634

A small copper Victorian cooking vessel or pan with a steel handle. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 1⁄8" 48.5 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 14522

A 20th century ten branch single tier brass William IV style chandelier with swept acanthus styled arms suspended from the central open foliate stem.
English, late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 14810

A fine Victorian burnished hooded fire grate in the Beaux Arts Baroque style. English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	35 3⁄8" 89.8 cms	12 11⁄16" 32.3 cms

Stock: 11604

A 20th century, Georgian style eight branch cut and moulded glass chandelier. The central baluster column, with cut coloured glass beading and eight scrolling arms supporting diamond cut sconces hung with cut glass drops. English, late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14526

A tall cut crystal glass and brass Edwardian chandelier in the French Empire style with ropes of cut glass beads descending from the large vase shaped corona to a gilt brass band with applied masks and cherubs from which hang four tiers of cut glass spears.English, early 20th century, circa 1920.

Provenance, The American Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London.

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	Diameter	Drop
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 14777

A very large and majestic arched Victorian antique fireplace mantel in lightly veined Carrara Marble. The wide moulded shelf rests above the broad arched fireplace opening, centred by a panelled keystone, is framed by finely carved, bound laurel torus moulding flanked by a pair of carved laurel wreaths on the panelled spandrels. The whole is supported on large shaped footblocks.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	87 5⁄8" 222.5 cms	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms
Internal	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 13886

A large and heavy gilt bronze Neoclassical style six branch chandelier with acanthus scroll detail throughout. Six ornate chains are suspended from the corona and linked to the arms. The foliate shaft stem is supported within a quiver of arrows terminating in a pineapple finial. English late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 14563

An impressive and beautifully carved French Rococo style antique chimneypiece in richly veined and variegated Languedoc Marble. The shaped moulded shelf rests above the deeply carved serpentine frieze centred by an asymmetrical shell cartouche amid foliate and floral detail. The c-scrolled endblocks sit above scrolled angled jambs which terminate in foliate furls supported on neat footblocks.
French, late 19th century.

Shown here with chenet SNo 11667 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 11⁄16" 179.5 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms
Internal	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms