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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

Stock: 13874

THE ITALIAN WARS
A monumental and imposing richly carved French walnut trumeau chimneypiece. The generously moulded cornice lies above a dramatically carved arched central panel dominating the trumeau frieze and depicting a scene of battle probably relating to the eighth Italian War (1551-1559) when Henry II of France declared war against Charles V ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. The panel is flanked on either side by two large carved horned and winged mythical beasts and the whole rests on the wide and sturdy fireplace surround beneath.

The deep shelf of the fireplace surround, with its carved alternating bossed frieze, sits above a pair of robust fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and stepped footblocks and the deep set fireplace opening is topped by a finely carved and decorative border detail.
French, mid 19th century.

Notes: The 1551-1559 Italian War was also known as the Habsburg – Valois War. There were a series of conflicts from 1494 to 1559 that involved, at various times, most of the city-states of Italy, the Papal States, most of the major states of Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Originally arising from dynastic disputes over the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples, the wars rapidly became a general struggle for power and territory among their various participants, and were marked with an increasing number of alliances, counter-alliances and betrayals.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	79 11⁄16" 202.5 cms	107 1⁄8" 272 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms
Internal	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	35" 89 cms

Stock: 9961

A very small 18th century cast iron antique fireback depicting a female holding what appears to be an anchor.

English,18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 14175

An antique Rococo style brass fireplace fender with a pair of monopodic dragons mounted upon scrolled brackets, echoed at either end of the bar, linked by a pair of swags and flanking an ornate central finial.

English, with the registration number for 1899.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 7⁄8" 137 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms
Internal	47 13⁄16" 121.5 cms

Stock: 11715

A cast iron Victorian roundel with the portraits most probably of Charles 1st of England and his son Charles II.
English late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 11315

A large possibly teak or mahogany ship's wheel, a brass band reinforcing the felloe or wooden rim of the wheel and with eight spokes radiating out from the central brass drum or spindle which together with the rest of the steering mechanism forms part of the helm and is the device used aboard a water vessel to control that vessel's course.
English date unknown possible early to mid 20th century.

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	Diameter	Depth
	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 14074

A very tall and impressive pair of Jacobean style polished wrought iron cresset topped andirons with scrolled legs. The two are connected by a barley twist top bar and two roasting spits from which hang two small drip cups.

English late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	14" 35.5 cms	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms

Stock: 11412

An Arts & Crafts four sectioned antique panelled walnut & leather room screen to stop the draughts. Each section with gilt tooled leather panels, depicting cherubs cavorting amongst a cacophony of fruits, foliage and birds, set with walnut frames beneath a galleried walnut cornice.
English late 19th century.

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	width	height
	94 1⁄2" 240 cms	74 13⁄16" 190 cms

Stock: 13757

A fine and slender carved wood and applied gesso jardiniere with a mirrored top and delicately carved figures of the Three Graces. Their arms are linked around the foliate decorated column which is supported on a tripod of large carved scrolled feet.
English late 19th century.

Notes: There are some small cracks and wear commensurate with age.

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	Width	Height
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms

Stock: 13922

A BARONIAL FANTASY

A pair of enormous and rather eccentric patinated bronze andirons in the Baronial Baroque manner. Each is surmounted by majestic spread winged eagles holding scrolled cartouche shields and perched on ornate drums decorated with mythical beasts and sirens. The acanthus plumed and scrolled central body is framed either side by enormous pairs of monopodic winged lions resting on winged messengers above large horned grotesques flanking a central mask of The Green Man.

Mid 20th century.

Notes: These andirons were probably made for a grand mansion in the Southern States of America

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25" 63.5 cms	46 1⁄8" 117 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 10393

A well carved, antique Victorian oak frieze panel in the Rennaisance Revival manner with scrolling detail depicting winged and forked tongued Dragons or Griffins set within with floral decorative detail, the central scrolled shield displaying the initials WCH 1897.
English 1897.

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	width	height
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 11373

An impressive stone keystone in three sections with a large carved, scrolled, cartouche above prominent ribbon and bell flower detail. Provenance: Originally on the façade of 298, Bishopsgate in the City Of London built between 1877-1890 and demolished in 1980.
English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	37" 94 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 13747

A Coalbrookdale lamp stand modelled as an allegory of Europe, from a series of four cast-iron standards representing the continents. This series was designed by the celebrated British sculptor John Bell in the 1860s.

It was Francis Darby's interest in the possibilities of statue casting that led to the foundry’s partnership with Bell, who allowed the foundry to take a mold from his celebrated statue, The Eagle Slayer. Once they had successfully completed this task, Bell went on to design a number of fine cast items for them, including pieces for the Great Exhibition and the Paris Exposition.

John Bell (1811–1895) was a British sculptor perhaps most famous for his statue, The Eagle Slayer.

English, c.1860

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	Base diameter	Height
	13" 33 cms	58 1⁄4" 148 cms

Stock: 14058

A large square antique Neoclassical style cast iron fireback. The large circular
panel with a beaded border, depicts a romantic pastoral scene of a
shepherdess, seated beneath a tree and surrounded by her dogs
and sheep, being courted by her lover.

English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	1 3⁄8" 3.5 cms

Stock: 13940

A cast iron fire back in high relief depicting a knight, holding a banner and seated on his rearing steed set beneath a lion mask surrounded by fruiting vines, beneath a shell and sea serpent pediment.
French, Circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 7992

An antique cast iron late Victorian register grate, with fluted hood supported on small corbels, with attractive vertical fire bars with round finials.This type of register grate would originally have had a pair of either decorative tiled or cast iron side panels.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	28" 71 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 14362

A tall antique cast iron fireplace surround with a high and wide moulded shelf above a deep entablature with an ornate vase of fruit amid scrolling foliage on the arched frieze and scrolled detail on the jambs.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 1⁄8" 168 cms	62" 157.5 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 14123

A pair of large antique fire place panels, decorated with rams heads and bell flowers set within arched topped panels.
English mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	2" 5 cms

Stock: 14036

A George III engraved and pierced steel serpentine fireplace fender.

English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms

Stock: 10564

A tall antique carved oak fireplace surround & overmantel in the Jacobean style. The surround with fluted corinthian column jambs and a cushioned mantel shelf, the overmantel with two quartered panels separated by three pilaster Aztec style figures with stylised floral headdresses. The upper frieze, flanked by grotesque masks, is centred by a plain shield surrounded by scrolling leaf & figural carved decoration.

English mid 19th century incorporating 17th century and 18th century carved elements.

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	width	height	depth
External	84 5⁄8" 215 cms	99" 251.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	59 3⁄8" 151 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms

Stock: 13732

A pair of tall Gothic style wrought iron andirons. The florally engraved standards,
topped by a pair of wolf heads holding rings in their mouths above stylised
shields, are supported on foliate decorated scrolled and splayed feet.
Swan's nest baskets available separately in various sizes.

English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms

Stock: 13679

A cast iron Baroque fireback, with the French National Coat of Arms of the Bourbon Kings, three Fleur de Lys on an oval scrolled Cartouche set with an armorial cartouche.
French late 17th, early 18th century.

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