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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: 10700

A massive aluminium heraldic spread eagle, with three Ducal coronets on it's breasts and wings the original emblem, without the three crowns was used by the Barclays Bank Group from the early 18th century. The three crowns were added in the 1930's to differentiate it from those emblems used for centuries in varying forms by royal households, countries and other establishments.
English, 1930's.

Notes: When in 1728 the Barclays Bank company moved into the premises known as The Black Spread Eagle on Lombard Street in central London they adopted as their emblem the sign of a Black Spread Eagle which had been left by the previous unknown tenants of the building. The premises later became 54 Lombard Street. Barclays present day blue emblem, first introduced in the 1960's and adopted in 1970, is based on the old earlier logo as shown on the hanging Bank sign below.

Casting of monuments and works of art in aluminium was first used by Alfred Gilbert in 1893 for his statue of Eros (famously misnamed, the figure is in fact Anteros, his twin brother), the Greek God of requited love, which is poised on top of the memorial to Lord Shaftsbury in the middle of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End.

SCALE : Imperial .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	72" 183 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 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.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	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

Stock: 13798

A brass fireplace fender the frieze with grouped piercing alternating with decorative paterae is flanked by fluted corners topped off with urn finials.

English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	6 1⁄2" 16.5 cms

Stock: 14068

MONUMENTAL

A enormous and highly eccentric pair of Gothic Revival antique wrought iron andirons, each with four barley twist columns enclosing a fifth entwined around which are mythical writhing serpents with thrusting heads. Leaves and serpents spill out of the cresset tops and there are two smaller cressets below to the front extending upwards from the back bars. The whole is supported on sturdy elaborately scrolled feet.
French late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 13735

A massive pair of Arts & Crafts wrought iron andirons in the Baroque manner,
with blunt faceted finials and scrolled, ringed standards above splayed feet
and linked by a barley twist bar with spearhead terminals and chains.

English circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 13991

A late Victorian cast iron and brass mounted fireplace fender, with a brass top rail and ball finials, set above a fretted frieze, flanked by Rococo style ends.

English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56" 142.2 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms	16 3⁄8" 41.7 cms
Internal	47 13⁄16" 121.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 12029

A pair of very large cast iron Art Deco post mounted street lights part of a range of the early "Bell Top" designs made by the Revo Electric Company Ltd. Tipton. The makers name can be clearly seen on the control box. English circa 1930.

Notes: The Revo Street Lighting Company of Tipton Staffordshire (1917-1969) was one of the earliest manufacturers of electric street lighting. A copy of one of their 1930s advertisements is attached below. The company was later taken over by Duport who in 1967 sold the goodwill, patents and trademarks to The English Electric Company.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 11914

A pair of wrought iron fire dogs with brass bun shaped finials above widely splayed scrolled feet. Shown here with a small swans nest basket, sold separately and available in different sizes.

English, 17th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 14049

A large pair of antique Baroque style brass andirons with double back bars and raised on elaborately scrolled feet.

American, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 13637

A small cast iron antique Louis XV Rococo style fireplace insert with deep cross hatching, a central shell cartouche echoed below and fine applied anthemion decoration.
French mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	43 7⁄8" 111.5 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms
Internal	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 11885

A fine antique register grate in the late Georgian manner of Robert Adam with original front plates in steel and with the bottom grills. The interiors would have been masonry or black cement but we can construct a metal interior to fit.
English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	38" 96.5 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms
Internal	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms

Stock: 9627

A tall and elegant Art Deco bow-fronted fireplace surround in Saint Jacques Limestone. The curved breakfronted shelf over a high panelled frieze centred by a typically Deco stylised floral panel, flanked by square floral paterae, supported on fluted jambs.
Scottish circa 1930.

Link to: Antique Victorian, William IV, Arts and Crafts, Aesthetic, Art Nouveau mantels and Art Deco fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	width	height	depth
	65 3⁄8" 166 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms
	43 1⁄2" 110.5 cms	48 5⁄8" 123.5 cms

Stock: 11789

A pair of 20th century Louis XV style bronze, brown patinated chenets in the Rococo manner, depicting a young trysting girl and youth with wine pitcher and glass in 18th century dress, on typical Rococo scrolled foliage supports.

French, 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	9 7⁄8" 25.2 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 11269

A cast iron fireplace insert, in the Regency manner, with a central neoclassical style cartouche and a pair of lozenge paterae to each side depicting draped cavorting putti on a cross hatched background.
French, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	3 11⁄16" 9.5 cms
Internal	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms

Stock: 10458

An Aesthetic Movement Thomas Jeckyll antique register grate, with the original tiles, made by the Barnard, Bishop & Barnard Foundry, Norfolk, England.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.5 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 14080

A small 19th century bronze church bell of elegant design. The canons and argent are still completely solid, allowing the bell to be hung. It does not have its original clapper, but one could be recast.
English late 19th century.

	Diameter	Height
	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 13201

A pair of cast iron Georgian style fireplace back panels with typical Neoclassiccal decoration.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	0 3⁄8" 1 cms

Stock: 13247

A pair of Elsley cast iron fireback plates, of rectangular form each with a hound reaching for a bird and background ruins in a rural setting, all set
within cartouche with rocaille cast surrounds and inscribed ‘ELSLEY’ to the reverse.
English mid to late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	0 5⁄8" 1.6 cms

Stock: 13921

A fine French Siena Marble and Ormolu striking mantel clock garniture.
The gilt brass and enamel face with Arabic numerals & blued steel hands,
bears the inscription "A La Renaissance, 47-49 Bo St Martin Paris".

It is surmounted by a gilt bronze eagle wrestling a serpent with garlands
of flowers tumbling down either side to the brass mounted plinth.
The turned marble urns, set on square plinths, have gilt bronze handles
linked by swags of ormolu flowers.

This clock has its original fine quality eight day movement which
is in good working order.
French mid 19th Century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Clock	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms
Urns	6 1⁄2" 16.5 cms	10" 25.5 cms

Stock: 11443

A lightly veined grey marble Louis XVI style pompadour antique fireplace surround. The serpentine panelled frieze, centred by an oval paterae, is flanked by panelled endblocks above angled panelled jambs.
French, late 19th century.

Link to: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms

Stock: 10720

An 18th century French Baroque Louis XIV limestone fireplace mantel. The moulded shelf is integral to the frieze which is centred by a shell cartouche and is carved from the solid. The fire surround is supported on panelled jambs. French circa 1780.

Link to: Antique Baroque Chimneypieces inc English, Italian, French, Flemish Bolection fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 3⁄16" 155.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Internal	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 14028

A 19th century Regency steel and brass fire fender, of serpentine outline, with latticework grille and applied cast cherub roundels.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 13532

A French cast iron armorial fireback depicting the conjoined arms of the Kings of France and the Kings of Navarre (1589-1789).
French late 19th century.

Heraldic information obtained from Richard d'Apice, VP of The Australian Heraldry Society.

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	Width	Height
	26" 66 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 14015

A set of three elegant fire tools with turned bronze handles.
English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 1⁄4" 11 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 8663

A Georgian English Rococo firescreen in need of restoration.
Carved giltwood and gesso with decorative scrollwork, flowers and foliage
and a cut-plush tapestry panel stitched with birds and foliage.
Photo before restoration.

English late 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 8980

A rare Italian Renaissance highly carved antique stone chimneypiece. The frieze with running acanthus and dentil decoration. The scrolled jambs, resting on paw feet are centred by lion masks holding ribboned festoons in their mouths.
Italian early 17th century. ( Photo before restoration and paint removal )

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	width	height	depth
exterior	76" 193 cms	74" 188 cms	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms
interior	61 3⁄16" 155.5 cms	57 1⁄2" 146 cms

Stock: 12149

A pair of spectacular, large patinated bronze and iron andirons in the Louis XVI, Etruscan Revival manner. Napoleon annexed the Kingdom of Etruria in 1807. The large slender urn finials each shrouded with continuous full height separate delicate palmettes are topped with ball handles. Seated on tapering square shafts and descending into leaf fluted columns over large oval leaf shrouding and down to shaped pedestals, standing on wide elegantly scrolled bronze plinths with central shell and scrolled decoration.
French, early 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms

Stock: 7340

A very large bolection fireplace surround in pink Scottish granite.
Scottish, circa 1930.

Link to: Antique Baroque Chimneypieces inc English, Italian, French, Flemish Bolection fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 1⁄2" 174 cms	58 1⁄4" 148 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms
Internal	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	48 3⁄8" 123 cms

Stock: 13611

An arched cast iorn fireback with a crown mounted above three fleur de lys surrounded by a roundel of shells, mythical beings and the letter 'L' repeated four times all probably associated with Louis XIV of France.
French late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	24" 61 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 13672

An attractive large brass and japanned metal French fireplace insert with highly ornate embossed medieval style figures of a knight and lady on the bow-fronted doors flanked by twin brass panels of embossed leaf and foliate detail and within a Gothic fretwork frame beneath a triptych frieze depicting mythical beasts and shields. French late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43" 109.2 cms	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms	6 5⁄8" 16.8 cms

Stock: 13627

A tall and stately rosewood and ebony chimneypiece and overmantle in the French Baroque manner. The overmantle mirror, framed with egg and dart & fleur de lys decoration, is set beneath a large cartouche centred with a monogrammed boss with the letters FF and is flanked by ebony lozenge detail and ribboned foliate festoons. The fireplace, with panels of foliate decoration on the frieze and endblocks, is supported by a pair of free standing, elaborately carved ebony columns fronting the jambs and framing the slow arched opening which is edged with egg and dart detail and further ribboned foliate festoons. French, mid to late 19th century.

Link to: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	101 3⁄8" 257.5 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Internal	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms