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Stock: 6622

A rare fireplace insert by Thomas Jeckyll for Barnard Bishop and Barnard. Epitomising the Aesthetic movement style, the insert is mounted with a cast brass panel decorated with Jeckyll's signature use of Japanese mons, but the most striking decoration is of course the handpainted tiles on a burnt orange ground, decorated with birds of paradise perching on stylised branches. A rare survival of extraordinary beauty.

English, circa 1870. Notes: Barnard, Bishop and Barnards were at the heart of Norwich's iron industry, and the company gained an international reputation after their collaboration with Thomas Jeckyll. Jeckyll’s associations with a group of London artists – notably James Abbott McNeill Whistler – made him a key figure in the Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement. Jeckyll used japonaise designs for Barnards’ fireplaces while his sunflower motif came to symbolise the Aesthetic Movement.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	8" 20.3 cms
Internal	18 3⁄8" 46.7 cms	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms

Stock: 16644

A beautiful French Empire period fireplace in an unusual, deep breccia marble. The marble has a deep red hue and incorporates grey brown and even yellow tones, with some sparse white veining. The moulded shelf sits over the plain frieze, which is supported on corbels over flat jambs.
A fireplace that showcases the marble with its simplicity of design.

French, early 19th century.

Outside footblock to outside footblock measurement: 151.5cm

View our collection of: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	62" 157.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms
Internal	45" 114.4 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 16504

A beautifully ornate Louis XV Rococo fireplace in a very softly veined Carrara marble. The moulded shelf rests on a serpentine frieze, which is centred by a shell motif and scrolling acanthus, and is boldly carved with a cushioned opening. The c-scroll endblocks are also carved with shells and this decorative carving spills over on on to the canted console jambs.

French, mid-19th century.

Outside footblock to outside footblock measurement: 154cm

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 13⁄16" 159.5 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	16 3⁄16" 41.2 cms
Internal	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms

Stock: 16651

A beautiful French oval wall mirror, the egg and dart frame enclosing a bevelled plate, and topped with a Rococo surmount and trailing flowers. The gilding has been rubbed back to give it a soft glow of warmth from the red bole underneath.

French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 16467

A fine antique fire tool stand in brass, with a fine barleytwist shaft and an ornate base. Perfect when paired with a set of our brass fire tools.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 16532

A wonderful set of Rococo style fire tools in brass. Topped with rocaille foliate handles, the slender shafts terminate in scrolling foliate tongs, and a lovely repoussé shovel.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 16078

A fine early Victorian bird's eye maple occasional table, with reeded and stylised tulip carved column with quatreform base, carved feet and castors. Perfect as a lamp or side table. Maker's label reads Charles Hindley & Sons.
English, c.1840.

Notes: Charles Hindley & Sons were established at 31 & 32 Berners Street, London, as carpet and rug manufacturers, later taking over the Oxford Street cabinet-makers Miles & Edwards in 1844. The company was a noted furniture-maker, receiving a Royal Warrant of Appointment and a place at the 1851 Great Exhibition.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 16600

An elegant neoclassical chimneypiece in pine. The inverted breakfronted shelf is carved with egg and dart and rests over a frieze which is profusely carved with scrolling acanthus and flowers. The jambs are decorated with strung flowers and fruit, very much in the manner of Grinling Gibbons.

English, c.1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 11⁄16" 177 cms	56 7⁄8" 144.6 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 cms
Bottom width	60 3⁄16" 153 cms

Stock: 16278

A fine set of Victorian Gothic Revival brass fire tools. The faceted handles are echoed in the zig zag pattern on the shafts of the tools. The shovel is beautifully engraved with a lily of the valley design.

English, c.1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 1⁄2" 11.5 cms	27" 68.5 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 16597

A charming 19th century companion set in brass, comprising three fire tools with turned and engraved handles and the scalloped shovel.

English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 16200

A large set of steel fire tools on stand. This companion set is strikingly modern in design, with twisted shafts and stand with a scrolling tripartite base.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Stand	11" 28 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16603

An Aesthetic Movement octagonal occasional table with an ebonised finish and a Ebony, Thuya and marquetry veneered top, raised on turned legs united by a crossover stretcher.

English, c.1870 .

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	Diameter	Height
	22" 56 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms

Stock: 16543

A wonderful fruitwood Sorrento ware centre table inlaid with fine marquetry and parquetry. The tabletop is beautifully inlaid with a central St George and the Dragon scene, from which radiates beautiful bands of parquetry, in geometric zig zag patterns and simpler bands of inlay. This is echoed on the turned stem and tripod feet.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms
Bottom width	60 3⁄16" 153 cms

Stock: 16052

A fine set of brass fire tools of an elegant design, with urnular handles. The shovel has a pierced Prince of Wales fleur de lys design.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	26" 66 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 16445

A very fine George II fender in brass, of a very useful size. The serpentine fender has a pierced and crisply engraved design of foliate scrollwork, centred by a neoclassical urn and two hounds. The whole is raised on lion paw feet.

English, c.1760

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	Width	Height	Depth
	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 16283

A fine set of three fire tools in steel, topped with Rococo brass handles.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16106

A set of unusual and large wrought iron fire tools, with matching tool rests, very much in the Aesthetic Movement Style. The tools are finished with brass rings to the finials, and the tool rests have turned brass knobs.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Firetools	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	2" 5 cms
Rests	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 16219

A fine set of three brass fire tools with turned finials, and an unusual faceted shovel with pierced decoration.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 16552

A charming 19th century brass fender, with ornate wirework grill and integral brass tool stands, raised on turned bun feet.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 16506

A charming French Louis XVI Fireplace in a very softly mottled Carrara marble. The slender shelf sits over a fluted frieze, which is mounted with tablet carved with a ribbon tied garland of daises - this is a rare design! The acanthine paterae endblocks are mounted over fluted, console jambs.

French, late 19th century.

Outer footblock to footblock width 60" 152.5cms.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 3⁄8" 156 cms	43 1⁄2" 110.4 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms
Internal	44 11⁄16" 113.6 cms	34" 86.3 cms

Stock: 16562

A large and grand bolection fireplace in the most beautifully veined breche violette marble. With a wide moulded shelf, this deep bolection fireplace has Greek corners and scrolls on the jambs, elevating it beyond the usual simplicity that typifies the style.

French, c.1850.

Outer footblock to footblock width 63" 160cms

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65" 165.2 cms	43 1⁄2" 110.5 cms	16 11⁄16" 42.5 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms

Stock: 6600

A beautifully simple warm hued stone fireplace. The wide shelf rests over the plain frieze and jambs, which are simply chamfered around the opening.
This fireplace would be perfect in a traditional country interior, but would also suit the simplicity of a more contemporary home too.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.7 cms
Internal	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 15368

A small Arts and Crafts three barred cast iron fire grate of organic form, with a curving backplate and standards reminiscent of a shepherd's crook. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms

Stock: 16517

A very fine 19th century desk very much in the manner of Gillows. This is a piece of exceptional quality, with a burr walnut veneer strung with satinwood marquetry to the top, the drawers and the pedestal. The breakfront top is inset with a tooled leather writing surface, bordered by brass beading, above a central secrétaire drawer, supported by elegant ebonised parcel-gilt pilasters and flanked by ten further locking doors. The desk alludes to the Aesthetic Movement style, but is not overtly so.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 16534

A Doulton Lambeth stoneware jardinière and stand of hexagonal form, decorated in the Renaissance revival style with relief panels depicting putti musicians, impressed mark. English, c.1890.

Final image shows a page from the Doulton Lambeth catalogue, featuring this model.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Base	10 3⁄16" 26 cms

Stock: 16028

A large pair of wonderfully ornate French ormolu andirons. They are beautifully cast, modelled as dragons with snake rings hung from their mouths.

French, late 19th century.

Photographed with 18" swan's nest basket, available separately.


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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 16556

A rare pair of large cast iron Handyside urns after the the Medici Vase. These urns were manufactured by the renowned Andrew Handyside & Co Foundry, and as illustrated in the catalogue, are a near pair, with a different subject to the bas-relief friezes. The right is a faithful copy to the original Medici Vase, now on display at the Uffizi in Florence. Both are mounted on their original pedestals.

English, c.1851.

Notes: The Handyside Foundry exhibited this model at the Great Exhibition of 1851, as it was, and still remains, one of the most popular subjects from antiquity.

Having returned from his uncle's engineering business in Russia, the young engineer Andrew Handyside took over the Britannia iron works in Derby in 1848, a foundry that was known for the quality of its casting, owing to the fine sand that could be found in the region. He made a wide range of materials in cast iron, from garden ornaments, to iron buildings and bridges.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Urn & Base	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms
Base	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 16539

A large and grand 19th century Gothic Revival pedestal in oak. The panelled central stem is flanked by four slender columns at the corners, over which are mounted dainty floral rosettes.
This substantial pedestal is perfect for a large piece of statuary, or even a jardinière, and is not unlike the pedestals used for display in 19th century museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum.

English, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms

Stock: 16558

A Regency Mahogany waterfall bookcase. Beneath the simple scrolled broken pediment, the seven graduated shelves with crossbanded edges are flanked by scalloped waterfall ends, and supported on short turned legs.

English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30" 76.2 cms	72" 183 cms	13" 33 cms
Outer footblock	53 11⁄16" 136.5 cms

Stock: 16525

A Louis XVI-style gilt brass fire screen, of shaped rectangular form with a ribbon tied laurel leaf handle and a bound torchere frame, enclosing a decorative mesh panel mounted with a quiver and arrows and a bagpipe, raised on four acanthine hoof feet.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 6560

A large boldly carved stone head of a classical figure wearing a laurel wreath. Originally mounted on the parapet of a building in Glasgow, built in the Greek Revival style, now demolished.
Very much in the style of - or perhaps even designed by - the great Scottish architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson.
Scottish,19th Century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15" 38 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 16530

A set of two black painted cast iron garden urns on stands, attributed to the Handyside Foundry. This set of campana urns with flared lobed rims, have lovely acanthine foliate embellishments to the body, over gadrooned socles. They are mounted with mask and loop handles. The plinths are simply decorated with bound laurel wreaths.

English, mid 19th century.

Notes: The renowned American landscape gardener, writer and horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) speaks fondly of the garden urn stating,“There are few objects that may, with so much good effect, be introduced into the scenery of pleasure grounds, surrounding a tasteful villa, as the vase in its many varied forms.”

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	Width	Height	Depth
Urn & Base	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	44" 111.8 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Base	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	19 13⁄16" 50.3 cms

Stock: 16516

A charming cast iron steel and brass fire basket in the Aesthetic Movement style. The cast iron back is decorated with a sunburst motif, over a foliate tablet, and this is mounted on a balustrade style fire grate in steel. The whole is supported on stylised floral andirons, very much in the Aesthetic movement taste.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 16182

A pair of Victorian painted cast iron garden urns or planters, with scrolled rims over gadrooned bodies, raised on cast iron plinths.

Victorian, c.1890.

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	Diameter	Height
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 16509

A fine Italian centre table with a wonderful top comprising concentric bands of bookmatched burr walnut. The outer ring is exquisitely decorated with marquetry crosshatching, which frames a wide band of burr walnut veneer. This in turn, encloses the central decoration of beautifully inlaid marquetry of a foliate design, each leaf shown delicately curled. This magnificent tabletop is mounted on a turned pedestal triform base, terminating in beautifully carved scallop feet.

A very useful table, perfect as a breakfast table, or a centre table.

Italian, possibly Sorrento, circa.1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms