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Stock: 13254

A mid 19th century lightly veined white statuary marble fireplace, with plain frieze and supporting jambs, the endblocks are decorated with floral bouquets beneath the deep and wide shelf. Recently removed from a house in Kensington, London, once the home of the American actress Ava Gardner.
Mid, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 1⁄2" 179 cms	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms
Internal	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 13004

A pair of Art Nouveau, wrought iron fire dogs, with twisted spiral finials above heart shaped brass panels within scrolling wrought iron frames, supported on splayed legs.

English, Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 8273

An interesting pair of Japanese street entertainers in spelter. One has its forearm missing, the other some fingertips. They would originally have supported acrobatic children as part of their act. Copies from the much earlier bronze originals
Japanese 19th century

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	Width	Height
	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms

Stock: 12290

A smart columned Irish Regency Chimneypiece in Kilkenny Fossil Black Marble elegantly carved with tapering columns beneath fluted capitals supporting the deep and lightly fossil strewn shelf.
Irish, early 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 13274 now sold.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	67 11⁄16" 172 cms	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	43 7⁄8" 111.5 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.5 cms

Stock: 13639

A cast iron Victorian register grate, decorated with stylised torchere and with scalloped detail on the backplate behind the two barred grate.
English circa 1845.

Link to: Antique Fire grates and Register grates.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	38" 96.5 cms	40" 101.5 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms
Internal	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms

Stock: 7069

A pair of brass 'Empire' style fireplace side panels with Egyptian themed decoration.

French, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 28 cms	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	0 5⁄8" 1.5 cms

Stock: 12727

An attractive 20th century brass and cut glass six branch Neoclassical style chandelier, with an ornate central baluster column and foliate arms and saucers, all generously hung with faceted drops. Converted to electricity.
20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 13181

An impressive large eighteen branch two tier bronze and cut crystal chandelier, beautifully hung with large pendant & bead drops. Converted to electricity.

Spanish early 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 9956

A mid 20th century copy of an 18th century Dutch or German fireback depicting cherubs with the Victory Wreath of Peace. This design can be seen as the backplate of a fire grate in the attached image below as illustrated in 'English Chimney-Pieces' by Guy Cadogan Rothery in 1927.
English 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	28" 71 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 13473

A large and ornately decorated brass Victorian dinner gong, with wide splayed feet and intricately scrolling Art Nouveau decoration.

	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 13464

A large, elegant and finely carved Louis XVI style fireplace surround in lightly veined Carrara marble, the panelled frieze and endblocks centred by delightful, delicately carved urns, fruit and trailing flora, the stop fluted jambs with delicate floral detail. French late19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 13⁄16" 157 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	12 1⁄2" 31.8 cms
Internal	44 5⁄8" 113.2 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 13441

A tall pair of ornate wrought iron cresset andirons in the Jacobean style topped by wine bottle mulling holders, with stylised wolf masks on the uprights and billet bars extending back and front.

French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 9779

A rare and very fine James I oak overmantel. This Jacobean piece has a reeded frieze, leaf carved to the centre and corners, over three arched arcaded panels. Each panel framed between four alternating carved figural caryatids and set with inlaid stylised tulips beautifully excuted in bog oak and fruitwood.
English mid 17th century.

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	width	height	depth
	60" 152.5 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 13188

An interesting statuary marble fireplace in the English Greek Revival manner, the stepped frieze with a central tablet with typical Classical Greek entwined Honeysuckle carving the subtly tapering paneled jambs above substantial footblocks.
Early 19th century, Circa1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 13118

A large 20th century Georgian style 16 branch two tiered glass crystal drop chandelier with a triple baluster central column festooned with beads, pendants & drops.
Mid 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 12127

A late Georgian neoclassical fireplace surround in the manner of Robert Adam carved in white Statuary marble with yellow Sienna marble inlay. The wide breakfront shelf set over the fluted frieze centred by a large tablet also of purple veined yellow Sienna marble flanked by circular fluted paterae endblocks above fluted jambs.
English, late 18th century with restorations.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 1⁄4" 209 cms	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms
Internal	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms

Stock: 13300

A tall white painted antique cast iron stick stand, with two holders, and a small dog sitting at the base. Enscribed 'Cave Canem' - Beware of the Dog.
Victorian late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 10332

A substantial an elegant George IV style chimneypiece in white Bianco Pi marble with inlaid panels of Onyx, diamond centre panel motifs on the jambs and fluted and reeded ingrounds with pretty stylised floral Paterae in the top corners.
Scottish, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 1⁄2" 199.5 cms	51 13⁄16" 131.5 cms	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms
Internal	43 1⁄8" 109.5 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 13046

A tall antique Edwardian brass fender, with slender spiral supports uniting the top rail and base embellished with ornate swag and festoon of roses and with foliate framed medallions, each depicting a mother and child, on the curve of the corners.

English early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	24" 61 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 13354

A fine pair of three branch cut glass Regency wall lights with swan necked arms, delicate drip pans festooned with long spear pendants and beads held by finely cut glass wall roses.
English, mid twentieth century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 12292

A RARE DELFTWARE FIREPLACE INSERT & HEARTH attributed to the Dutch tile maker J van Hulst and made in Harlingen, Friesland in the 19th century. The polychrome tiles depict river and coastal scenes and are decorated with pigments made from metal oxides; cobalt for the blue, manganese for the purple or black and copper for the green.
Dutch, late19th century.

Notes: The term Delftware is derived from the Dutch town of Delft where from the seventeenth century many potteries produced hand-painted tin-glazed pottery of high quality which was exported all over the world and as they were mainly applied to walls and fireplaces, they belong to the history of architectural ceramics. The fired pottery tiles would have been covered with an opaque white tin glaze and would then have been decorated as in this case with river & coastal scenes. The end of the many centuries the old Harlingen tradition was signalled when the Van Hulst family closed their factory in 1933.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Of Insert	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Of Hearth	53 1⁄4" 135.5 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 11729

A fine silver-plated (unusually thick silver plate on copper) eight- light, crystal chandelier with the original gadrooned ceiling rose, in the Neoclassical manner.
Early 20th century.

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	Width	Height
	24" 61 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms

Stock: 13089

An unusual Victorian Palladian style brass fender. The frieze centred with a broken pediment arch design above alternating flestoons, acanthus motifs and reeded columns and surmounted by urn shaped finials.

Victorian mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	54" 137.2 cms	11" 28 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 13324

A burnished Victorian cast iron fireplace in the Neoclassical style with a break front shelf above an egg and dart fringe, the stop fluted frieze centred by a pretty urn and a foliate decorated plaque, flanked by bullseye end blocks and with trailing bell flowers surrounding the opening.
English, 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 3⁄16" 160.5 cms	53" 134.5 cms	10 3⁄16" 25.8 cms
Internal	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	37 11⁄16" 95.7 cms

Stock: 12433

'GATHER YE THE ROSEBUDS'
A 20th century Art Nouveau style stained glass tryptich of maidens in a woodland setting. The enamelled logo at the back of one of the panels states ' Glashaus 88 ', they were a Glasgow company of stained glass makers and restorers who were commissioned to make the panels in 1988 for The Princes Casino in Glasgow.
With restorations. Signed & dated 1988.

The figures in the central panel are very similar to those depicted in a window designed in 1902 by Ernest Archibald Taylor (1874 -1951), who trained at the Glasgow School of Art, for the industrialist William Weir entitled 'Gather Ye the Rosebuds'. His panel is illustrated in the book Scotland's Stained Glass by Michael Donnelly, image below.The title is probably a reference to the poem by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
To-morrow will be dying.'

It points to springtime with a warning and awareness of the swift passage of time and with it the inevitable loss of youth and beauty.



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	width each	height each	overall width
	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	106 11⁄16" 271 cms

Stock: 13756

An attractive cast iron Victorian fireplace insert, the gentle arched opening framed by delicate foliate decoration echoed on the backplate, the intergral grate with three bowed bars above further foliate decoration on the apron.
Reg Mark dates it at 1876.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 13512

An elegant 20th century Georgian style chimneypiece in Statuary and inlaid Sienna
and Brocatelle marble.The frieze beneath the breakfront shelf embellished
with inlaid sienna festoons and centred by a tablet of a lidded urn surmounted by
a pair of seated sphinx draped with further festoons. The endblocks with tall vases
above descending inlaid sienna bellflowers on the jambs.
English mid 20th century.

Notes: There is an almost identical fireplace in the Library of Shropham Hall, Norfolk, England please see the image below.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	74 13⁄16" 190 cms	60 5⁄8" 154 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms
Internal	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms

Stock: 13202

A pair of highly decorative French cast iron backplate panels depicting putti set within a rocaille frame embellished with shells, vines and leaves.
French mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	0 3⁄8" 1 cms

Stock: 8864

A very grand Italian Renaissance style antique fireplace mantel in white Statuary Marble. The stepped shelf, edged with richly carved lambs tongue detail over an egg and dart border, sits above a very fine frieze which is made from one block and carved in high relief with linked palmette motifs supported by scrolled acanthus brackets resting above intricately carved panelled jambs.
Italian, mid 19th century.

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

	Width	Height	Depth
External	83 1⁄2" 212 cms	71 11⁄16" 182 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Internal	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	57 1⁄8" 145 cms

Stock: 13197

A tall cast iron Wealdon style fireback depicting Phaeton riding Apollo's
chariot drawn by mythical lions under a storm cast sky. It is probably the face of
Aeolus, Ruler of the Winds, that can been in the clouds blowing up the storm.
Victorian circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	0 5⁄8" 1.5 cms

Stock: 13170

A pair of brass Victorian Fire Dogs in the 17th century style with large embossed roundel finials and supported by twin mythical beasts.

Late, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 12959

A pair charming of 20th century brass wall lights in the Regency manner with twin scrolled arms and anthemion decoration. English, mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 13198

WILLIAM IV HOB GRATE
A rare cast iron antique hob grate with simple bowed fire bars and side panels decorated in high relief with the initials of King Williams IV (WR IV) set within a crowned oak and laurel wreath which also incorporates the English Rose, the Scottich Thistle and the Irish Shamrock. Beneath are the initials B O which stand for the Board of Ordinance and beneath that the Broad Arrow identifies it as being the property of the Crown.
Regency, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 7⁄8" 91.2 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 11594

A very attractive English Regency carved pine, mahogany and composition giltwood chimneypiece. The mahogany breakfront shelf above richly carved lambs tongue motif, the reeded frieze with acanthus endstops, the columned jambs topped with the same. Please note that the shelf has not been glued.
English, early 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 1⁄2" 174 cms	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms
Internal	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms

Stock: 13363

A set of six small richly embossed & painted antique leather panels decorated with red convolvulos or 'morning glory' flowers and leaves.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	0 3⁄16" 0.5 cms