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Stock: 14200

A magnificent and enormous pair of huge bronze Edwardian Baroque panels each in two parts made for Gillows of Lancaster, the famous furniture and furnishings company founded in 1730 who later to became Waring and Gillow. They would have been part of a grand display stand at one of the Great International Exhibitions that occurred from the mid 19th century. Gillows was one of a number of first class manufacturing companies to provide work of the highest calibre for these exhibitions. It is not clear exactly which event these panels, some parts of which are missing, would have been made for but it is likely to have been either the London Exhibition of 1908 or the one in Ghent in 1913. The panels bear medallion copies of the medals that Gillows were awarded at various exhibitions from London,1851 to Paris,1900 and Brussels.

Extraordinarily the panels were only discovered in 2015 stored away in a dock-side warehouse in Liverpool the home of Warings. It is possible that they had remained there undisturbed and forgotten for all those years from the time they were dismantled at the exhibition and transported back to Liverpool.
English, 1903 - 1914

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	approx width	approx height
	26" 66 cms	114" 289.6 cms

Stock: 14241

A large Louis XVI antique fireplace surround in subtly attractive, mottled coffee coloured, veined marble from a local quarry in Brittany. Provenance: Hotel 'Repaire de Kerroch' in the port of Paimpol, Brittany, France the same as fireplaces SNos 14240 & 14239. French, late 18th early 19th century.
Shown here with andirons SNo 13920 not included in the price.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	79 5⁄8" 202.3 cms	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms

Stock: 14395

A large, good quality 20th century gilt metal hall lantern with four panels of curved glass held in a Rococo style frame mounted with pierced crestings. English mid 20th century.

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		Drop
		26" 66 cms

Stock: 14272

A 20th century cut glass five branch neoclassical style chandelier with a domed and hooded baluster stem terminating in a faceted globe and profusely hung with cut glass drops and swags of beads. English, mid to late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 13969

One of a set of four ornate Neoclassical style 20th century twelve branch cut glass chandeliers profusely hung with drops and swags of beads. Together with Stock Nos: 13968, 13970 & 13971. English mid to late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
With chain	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms
Without chain		26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 13968

One of a set of four ornate Neoclassical style 20th century twelve branch cut glass chandeliers profusely hung with drops and swags of beads. Together with Stock Nos: 13968, 13970 & 13971. English, mid to late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
With chain	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms
Without chain		26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 14315

A very large and finely carved Victorian antique marble fireplace surround. The wide moulded shelf rests above a broad arched fireplace opening centred by a foliate keystone and framed by a finely carved laurel and berry torus moulding. The whole is supported on large shaped footblocks.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	92 1⁄8" 234 cms	49 13⁄16" 126.5 cms	17 5⁄8" 44.8 cms
Internal	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms

Stock: 14387

A 20th century bronze of a beautiful young gypsy maiden with a tambourine after the model by Claudius Marioton (1844-1919). The name Marioton and the number 126 are enscribed on the back. The original would have been made in Paris at the art foundry - Fondeur, Siot-Decauville active in the 19th and early 20th century and whose workshops and stores were in Villehardouin Street, Paris. French early to mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 13906

A small decorative cast iron two barred Regency register grate, the basket with fine acanthus detail on the skirt echoed around the opening.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 1⁄8" 91.7 cms	38" 96.5 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 13804

A high quality 20th century, ten branch nickel plated brass Regency style chandelier. One of a set of two together with SNos 13802
English, late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
With chain	26" 66 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms
Without chain		16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 13802

A high quality 20th century, ten branch nickel plated brass Regency style chandelier. One of a set of two together with SNos 13804
English, late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
With chain	26" 66 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms
Without chain		16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 14139

A carved oak Jacobean style chimneypiece and overmantel of modest proportions. The deeply carved strap work frieze on the fireplace is decorated with Tudor roses and roundels containing portraits of bearded noblemen and is flanked by floral paterae end blocks supported on caryatid jambs. The caryatids, set within deep egg and dart bordered panels, stand on carved foot blocks. The overmantel, beneath a simple but boldly moulded cornice, is divided into three panels inset with light coloured fruit wood and black ebony geometric designs. Each panel alternates with male and female terms holding cherub, fruit and foliate panels
English, rebuilt in the mid 19th century with 17th & 18th century elements.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄8" 180.5 cms	79 1⁄2" 202 cms	10" 25.5 cms
Internal	44 11⁄16" 113.5 cms	40 11⁄16" 103.5 cms

Stock: 14240

An elegant & tall Louis XV antique chimneypiece in subtly attractive, mottled coffee coloured, veined marble from a local quarry in Brittany. Provenance: Hotel 'Repaire de Kerroch' in the port of Paimpol, Brittany which has been recently partly converted into apartments, please see last image below. A larger version of fireplace Stock Number 14239, with the same provenance. French late 18th early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms

Stock: 14381

An exceptional Edwardian Chinese Chippendale style, burnished cast iron antique fireplace surround and integral overmantel. The overmantel, with a pierced fretwork crest, is set above an oval shaped recess probably meant to frame a mirror or a painting. The recess is surrounded by a blind fretwork geometric decoration with a shelf to either side over a further mantel shelf supported on a central demi-lune bracket above ribbon tied floral swag detail. The jambs are fronted by a pair of tall, slim fluted pilaster columns.
English circa 1910.

Notes: There is a model number to the back 'No: 342' .

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58 7⁄8" 149.5 cms	79 7⁄8" 203 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 14355

A rare, monumental and highly ornate Louis XV style deeply carved Statuary Marble antique fireplace surround in the French Baroque Rococo manner with its original cast iron insert. The upper stop fluted coffered frieze sits above and behind an enormous and most elaborately scrolled central cartouche quite simply the flamboyant focus of the whole chimneypiece. The equally massive angled, scrolled and panelled jambs, beneath the two tiered endblocks, are embellished with large acanthus detail. Quatrefoil panels sit above the panelled side returns. The signature of a J. Molinari, and the name Menton are carved above the quatrefoil on the right return shown in the second to last image below.
French, late 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 1⁄4" 209 cms	66 7⁄8" 170 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms
Internal	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms

Stock: 7909

A Louis XVI chimneypiece in Statuary marble with well defined acanthus leaf carved and scrolled jambs, end paterae and central cartouche,the breakfront shelf over carved pearl decoration on the frieze and jambs. Image before restoration.
French circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	15" 38.1 cms
Internal	39 1⁄2" 100.3 cms	32 13⁄16" 83.2 cms

Stock: 14349

A gilt brass ornate burnished brass Gothic stairwell single light chandelier with a castellated rim over a tapering spire suspended by chain/rods. Image before restoration / polishing.
English late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 14386

A large and magnificent late Victorian twelve branch brass antique chandelier. Theatrical and grand the elaborate brass baluster stem has twelve scrolling arms issuing from two graduated tiers, the lights with six frosted glass flambeau shades above six down swept holaphane shades. The stem terminating in a large ringed ball finial.
English, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Drop from ceiling boss
	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 14239

An elegant Louis XV antique chimneypiece in subtly attractive, mottled coffee coloured, veined marble from a local quarry in Brittany. Provenance: Hotel 'Repaire de Kerroch' in the port of Paimpol, Brittany which has been recently partly converted into apartments, please see last image below. A smaller version of fireplace Stock No. 14240 with the same provenance. French late 18th early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	67" 170.3 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms
Internal	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 14392

A pair of substantial Jacobean style wrought iron andirons linked by a highly ornate scrolled fender bar. The standards in the form of a pair of griffins holding rings in their mouths.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	33 1⁄4" 84.5 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14186

A Gothic Revival limestone antique fireplace surround with a small central keystone linking the frieze to the gentle arched opening. The shelf is supported on six small brackets to the sides. A pair with SNo 14185 not yet on the website.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 3⁄8" 156 cms	53 11⁄16" 136.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms
Internal	35" 89 cms	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms

Stock: 14383

An antique carved beech wood plaque depicting the Coat of Arms of the City of Manchester which was granted to the City in 1842. The City's motto is inscribed on the plaque and reads "Concilio et Labore" which loosely translated means "Wisdom and Effort".

The Coat of Arms depicts the Heraldic Antelope with its chain, a symbol of peace and harmony, extreme courage and discipline also representing the engineering industries; and the Heraldic Lion a symbol of bravery and strength, his crown, a castle is a reference to the ancient Roman fort of Castlefield. Each wears the Red Rose of Lancaster on their shoulders. They flank a central cabuchon depicting a ship representing the trading relationships of Manchester, and a globe covered in bees which in heraldic terms is a symbol of efficient industry. To this day the bee is often used as a shorthand emblem of Manchester.

English, late 19th century.

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	width	height
	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	11 1⁄4" 28.8 cms

Stock: 14390

A set of 19th century hand-coloured fireplace tiles with a elaborate floral decoration.
English, late 19th century.

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

Stock: 12494

A compact carved walnut antique chimneypiece in the Italian Renaissance manner with an ornately carved frieze flanked by cavorting putti on the endblocks above fluted columns with elaborately carved corinthian capitals and scrolled decoration fronting the jambs and resting on simple footblocks.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58 1⁄4" 148 cms	60 5⁄8" 154 cms	10 13⁄16" 27.5 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	45 7⁄8" 116.5 cms

Stock: 12930

A wide cast iron Heraldic fireback dated 1664 with the lion and unicorn holding the Royal Coat of Arms flanked
by the initials C R, probably those of either Charles I or II.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 4774

An Irish Rococo Revival carved giltwood overmantel mirror in the mid 18th Century Georgian manner, with its original Mercury backed Vauxhall glass sections all separately fitted. The high central cartouche and ‘C’ scroll decoration over the triple mirror are supported either side by grand floral scrolls. The original Dublin cabinet maker's label is attached to the bottom.
Irish, circa 1881.

R. Boyle & Sons.
Artistic Cabinet Makers & Upholsterers
Carvers Guilders & Manufacturers of Church Furniture
20 Upper Gloucester Street
Dublin, July 1st 1881 - image below.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Max	72" 183 cms	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	3 1⁄2" 9 cms

Stock: 13920

A pair of very tall Arts & Crafts brass and cast iron antique andirons, with decorative cut brass rosette roundels above a pair of brass strapwork plaques and raised on simple splayed feet.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	31 1⁄4" 79.5 cms	26" 66 cms

Stock: 13871

A patinated antique bronze of Lorenzo de Medici, the 15th century Italian Statesman and the powerful ruler of the Florentine Republic. He was well known for his patronage of Renaissance scholarship. poetry and art most notably that of Botticello and Michaelangelo. He is depicted deep in thought, this figure is deserving of its nickname "Pensieroso" or "The thoughtful one" and is after the original by Michelangelo on the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici in the Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Italian, possibly French late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 14144

A large cast iron antique Victorian log grate fronted with four linked circles, in place of bars, set top and bottom with knopped finials. The grate supported on fine quality cast brass baluster andirons with splayed legs and small ball feet.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	22" 56 cms
Back width	24" 61 cms

Stock: 14324

A large Victorian antique cast iron fireplace insert with an integral three barred crested hob grate and with flamboyant foliate decoration framing the opening.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.5 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 14320

An antique white Statuary Marble fireplace surround. The deeply carved central plaque, set beneath the simple moulded shelf on a plain panelled frieze, is decorated with roses, fruit and orange blossom and is flanked by carved end blocks, one depicting Summer and the other Autumn, The panelled jambs richly carved with hanging, ribbon tied clusters of oak and acorns
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 5⁄8" 156.5 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 14346

An early Victorian two barred cast iron antique hob grate with a high and ornate scrolled crested back and acanthus decorative detail on the apron and side panels.
English, early Victorian.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 14344

A large, wide and low Gothic style antique cast iron Victorian fire grate with barley twist front bars mounted with fleur de lys finials and supported by a pair of substantial splayed footed standards.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Back width	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 14333

A late Georgian early Victorian cast iron antique fireplace insert with an integral two barred grate set within a slow arched opening flanked by slim triple columns on the side panels.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 14298

An octagonal Arts & Crafts antique oak font with a fine inset silvered bowl covered by a lid and a deeply carved acanthus, rosette and vine frieze set above eight arcaded panels, supported on a column resting on a spreading ogee base. One of the panels bears a commemorative plaque the dedication of which says:
" To the Glory of God. This font was gifted to Newington United Free Church, Edinburgh by Miss Alison Telford on the 16th January 1924, her eightieth birthday. She was the first girl baptised in this church 1844 ".
Scottish, early 20th century.

Provenance: Newington United Free Church, now the Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, Edinburgh

Notes: The Queen’s Hall has been at the heart of music making in Edinburgh since 1979 when, after a public appeal, the Church of Newington and St Leonards was bought and converted into a 900 seat concert hall . Since then it has become known internationally as the setting for the much loved Edinburgh International Festival Morning Concerts and an ideal space for chamber music.

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	width	height
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	37" 94 cms