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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.

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	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: 13934

A very good & large pair of 20th century gilt brass fifteen branch chandeliers profusely hung with large cut glass drops. The branches with scrolling acanthus leaf decoration beneath attractive foliate candle holders.
English late 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 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.

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	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.

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	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: 7265

An elegant Louis XV chimneypiece carved from veined Sarrancolin Marble the panelled frieze with a scrolled central cartouche beneath a serpentine shelf.
French, circa 1710.

The shelf is a later replacement.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65 3⁄8" 166 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	44 11⁄16" 113.5 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 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: 13268

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A magnificent and rare late 18th Century "Summer Grate".

This very important George III grate is fashioned in bright cut polished steel. It is a most generously large grate with very finely etched and engraved foliate and acanthus designs and applied beading, a skirt of lozenge cut paterae, vase shaped finials and chamfered etched legs very much in the Neo-classical style and clearly showing the influence of Robert Adam (1728-1792).

There is an identical grate in the V&A Museum, London which is believed to have been made in the late 18th century by an iron founder named Henry Jackson of Saffron Hill, Smithfield, a copy of his trade card is below.

This type of grate was called a dog grate but became more commonly known as a "Summer Grate" because the expensively etched front could be lifted off during the winter months, to protect it from damage when the fire was lit, thereby revealing behind the more simply etched second grate front. It would almost certainly have been specially commissioned to complement a grand chimneypiece.

There are two other known identical grates both in Spencer House, an 18th century mansion built in 1756-66 in St. James's, London.
English, Circa 1790.

SCALE: V. Large

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43" 109.2 cms	38" 96.5 cms	18" 45.7 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 )

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	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: 12097

A carved statuary Louis XV style antique chimneypiece with a stylised shell central cartouche surrounded by foliage. The scrolled shell end blocks are supported on panelled jambs.
French, mid to late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Internal	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms

Stock: 7340

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

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	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.

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	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

Stock: 11875

A simple and restrained 19th century white Carrara Marble chimneypiece with corbelled endblocks.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms

Stock: 13638

A tall carved antique walnut chimneypiece in the Italian Renaissance manner. The stepped shelf and pediment is set above a shallow frieze with a pair of mythical dragons either side of a central grotesque mask amid scrolling foliage, flanked by squared foliate endblocks and supported on a pair of elaborate Solomonic Columns.The elaborately carved double inner frieze has four panelled shell cartouche above a panel centred with a crowned, quartered shield guarded on either side by a further pair of mythical dragons. The opening is edged with a guilloche detail and the whole is raised on substantial carved footblocks. Provenance: Removed from a Theological College in Glasgow, Scotland.
Italian, late 19th century.

Shown here with a pair of Gothic style andirons SNo 13416 not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	76 3⁄8" 194 cms	81 1⁄2" 207 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms
Internal	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms

Stock: 13647

A cast iron late Regency Register Grate, with an integral firebasket, enhanced throughout with floral foliate detail the opening flanked by a pair of elaborately decorated foliate posts.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	38" 96.5 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms

Stock: 13887

A pair of large and rather grand 20th century polished iron urn stands each with four large grotesque masks, the design of which can be found from earliest Greek, Roman, and Etruscan times and often found on keystones and shields throughout Europe. Possibly French or German mid to late 20th century.

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	width	height
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 13462

A small, elegant steel Register Grate decorated with finely etched neoclassical detail surrounding a typical three barred grate flanked by twin urn finials above a pierced apron.
English late 19th, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Internal	28" 71 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms