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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

Stock: 14359

A magnificent and rare Gothic Revival, Byzantine influenced antique silver plated incense burner that could easily be converted into a grand ceiling light. The highly decorative bowl, set with many coloured glass cabochon and bearing the initials I H S a symbolic monogram of Christ, is suspended from a high domed crown on six sturdy chains. Beneath the bowl is a reversed crown terminating in a reversed ring finial.
Mid 19th century, possibly French.

This incense burner can easily be converted into a chandelier or electrolier..

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	Width	Height
	22" 56 cms	53 7⁄8" 137 cms

Stock: 8024

A large and striking Flemish dark polished fossil stone Baroque Mannerist antique chimneypiece, with double contra scrolling tapering jambs terminating in tall moulded foot blocks, supporting a later barrelled integral frieze and shelf centred by a magnificent lions mask.
Flemish part 16th century and later.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	90" 228.6 cms	77" 195.6 cms	20" 50.8 cms
Internal	66" 167.6 cms	66" 167.6 cms

Stock: 14299

A very decorative and unusual Arts & Crafts antique oak pedestal. The moulded square top is set above four carved panelled sides raised on a moulded plinth base. Each panel has a medieval figure carved in high relief representing the four seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Provenance: Originally from Ravensby Hall in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland.
Circa 1900.

Notes: Ravensby Hall, with its turrets, bays, and gables built in the 1870s for The Thomson family of Dundee, is an elegant country house incorporating both Gothic and Scottish Baronial styles. The Thomson family had acquired their wealth through the 19th century, initially in shipping, and then later by expanding into publishing, buying the Dundee Courier in 1886. Ravensby Hall was intended as their country retreat, befitting a family of their status in Scottish society.

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	width	height	depth
	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 14309

An unusual antique Victorian cast iron and brass mounted Register Grate with grotesque masks and caduceus wrapped spears bearing stylised braziers.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄8" 104.5 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 14307

A smart High Renaissance style polished Belgian Black Marble antique fireplace surround with three foliate carved panels on the frieze flanked by a pair of lozenge endblocks set above tapering free standing fluted columns resting on double footblocks. Flemish 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 13⁄16" 162 cms	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	44 7⁄8" 114 cms

Stock: 14008

A large arched antique cast iron fire surround in the Rococo style with a rounded rectangular mantel above enriched moulding on the undershelf, repeated around the opening. The delicate foliate detail framed on the spandrels is flanked by very large c-scrolls above jambs which terminate in finely scrolled feet.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	59 5⁄8" 151.5 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.5 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 14303

A fine Louis XVI style antique fireplace mantel in rare beautifully gold veined Portoro Marble. The moulded rectangular shelf is set above a simple panelled frieze which is flanked by a pair of square endblocks supported on moulded and fluted corbels above panelled jambs raised on simple footblocks.
French, late 19th century.

Notes: Varieties of Portoro Marble have been found in different parts of the world but the marble used to make this chimneypiece is of the highest quality and could only have come from the quarries on the Island of Palmaria, in the Gulf of La Spezia, Italy. This marble was discovered and first extracted in Roman times and is rightly regarded worldwide as a luxury marble because of it's quality and the distinctive black and gold veining.

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	width	Height	Depth
External	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	40" 101.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	28 11⁄16" 72.8 cms

Stock: 14100

A very finely figured Aesthetic Movement cast brass antique fireplace insert set with eight hand painted tiles, four of are depictions of medieval ladies in domestic settings, the other four are of delicate floral design. The central brass panel rand brass surrounds are reminiscent of the designs of Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881).
English circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms
Internal	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 10203

A large and fine antique Palladian style chimneypiece in the manner of William Kent (1685-1748). Carved in pure white Statuary Marble and with Breche Violette, endblocks and ingrounds, it has a prominent corniced shelf set over a beautifully scrolled foliate carved frieze, centred by a simple Breche Violette plaque, flanked by foliate endblocks above bold tapering volute jambs, topped by ribbon tied scrolls, resting on plain large footblocks.
English, mid 19th century with later restoration.

Notes: This chimneypiece, made in the 19th Century, bears a striking resemblance to the chimneypiece in the Red Dining Room at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, designed by Inigo Jones in the late 17th Century. The chimneypiece was probably designed by William Kent as the Hall was refashioned by him in 1731 in collaboration with the Master Sculptor & Carver James Richards (1718-1759) who is credited with the carving of the chimneypiece.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	97 1⁄2" 247.7 cms	73 1⁄8" 185.7 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	44 11⁄16" 113.5 cms

Stock: 6582

A substantial antique Victorian Belgian Black and Red Griotte marble fireplace. The fluted frieze, set below the deeply moulded shelf is centred with two foliate paterae plaques separated by a small raised panel, flanked by simple curved end blocks, supported on round cornered panelled jambs. The fireplace opening is framed by generous deep Red Griotte marble mouldings delicately carved with stylised Acanthus leaf decoration in the Greek manner with small round floral paterae to the top corners, above the large moulded foot blocks.
Belgian late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 1⁄4" 176 cms	51" 129.5 cms	17 5⁄8" 44.7 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	36" 91.5 cms

Stock: 7739

An impressive large serpentine fronted 18th century polished iron antique fire basket in the manner of Robert Adam, with etched spandrels, paterae & endblocks, a beaded border and four urn finials. Identical to one in Soho House, Birmingham, the house designed by James Wyatt, but this firegrate was probably made by Matthew Boulton (1728 -1809) partner to James Wyatt and a leading light in the English Industrial Revolution. English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	29 13⁄16" 75.6 cms	17 13⁄16" 45.1 cms
Back panel	23 3⁄16" 59 cms

Stock: 11284

A large and rare, highly ornate antique oak overmantel reminiscent of the style of the French designer Daniel Marot(1661–1752). The top with egg and dart moulding, carved acanthus scrolls and pendant drops above a quatrefoil opening framed by acanthus carved bolection moulding reserved on a diaper ground and flanked by scroll supports with heavy acanthus carving above a base section with a scrolling cartouche and carved strapwork and draperies. Photos before restoration and in it's original state with some carved elements missing.
English mid 19th century.
Provenance: By repute originally removed from Alnwick Castle in the late 20th century and erected as an overmantel in a house in Alnwick.

Notes: In the second half of the 18th century Robert Adam carried out many alterations to Alnwick Castle. The interiors were largely in a Strawberry Hill Gothic style and not at all typical of his work, which was usually neoclassical in design. However in the 19th century Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland replaced much of the interiors with less ostentatious architecture designed by Anthony Salvin. According to the official website a large amount of Adam's work survives, but little or none of it remains in the principal rooms shown to the public, which were redecorated in an opulent Italianate style in the Victorian era by Luigi Canina.

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	width	height	depth
external	78 11⁄16" 200 cms	82 11⁄16" 210 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Inside mirror	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms

Stock: 13500

A tall antique giltwood mirror, impressive in the French Louis XVI manner. This giltwood and composition mirror has an arched rectangular frame with ornately decorated columns and a leaf carved pediment which is centred by a large oval paterae. Photos before restoration.
French late 19th century

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	Width	Height
	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	79 1⁄8" 201 cms

Stock: 12398

A beautiful pair of rare and highly decorative glass mosaic antique pilasters with trophies, knights shields, helmets and weaponry and descending ribbons and foliage enhancing and adorning the mosaic gilt ground.
English,circa 1860.

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	Width	Height
	10" 25.5 cms	97 3⁄16" 247 cms

Stock: 13843

A tall and elegant walnut antique Art Nouveau fireplace in the manner of Charles Harrison Townsend (1851 - 1928), architect and designer of the 1901 Horniman Museum and the 1895 Bishopsgate Institute, both in London. Carved in relief in a design typical of the Art Nouveau period with a pair of tall stylised trees with slender trunks and sinuous roots flanking the high set columned podium.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	75 3⁄16" 191 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Internal	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 11691

A large and highly detailed Jacobean style carved oak antique overmantel. The frieze, set with a pair of strapwork panels, is centred by a grotesque mask and flanked by two finely carved seraphim. Beneath this is a three sectioned panel with a large central shield set with twelve segmented heraldic devices. This is flanked by a pair of floral motif panels above a further pair of panels carved with the Star of David, each section is interspersed with carved effigies of pilaster kings. English,19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	66 1⁄2" 169 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms