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Stock: 16138

A fine and rare set of Grand Tour plaster intaglios, individually mounted on dark green silk within their original mahogany and crossbanded satinwood case, which is fashioned as a false book. When the spine of the book is removed, the interior is revealed. Traces of marbled paper remain around three sides of the case, imitating the marbled finishes often seen on 18th century books. Some of the Intaglios have the impressed stamp for Nathaniel Marchant, who was the most well regarded gem engraver of the 18th century.
Sets such as these are very rare.

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	Width	Lenght
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 14269

A French Rococo four panel folding gilt brass and mesh fire screen with scrolling Rococo foliate decoration.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 6596

An exceptionally rare and finely cast George III neoclassical cast iron chimneypiece, attributed to Robert Adam. The frieze is delicately decorated with a finely cast central oval cartouche depicting the Triumph of Love, flanked by garlands of bellflowers and floral paterae. The endblocks are decorated with portraits of King George III and Queen Charlotte and are surmounted by a pair of neoclassical urns. These are supported on panelled jambs containing circular lion mask paterae and ribboned floral borders over paterae footblocks.
The fluted integral hob grate with serpentine bars is decorated with bell flowers and a central floral paterae. The handsome back plate with a half round arch, above which is a central mask, strung with garlands of bellflowers, which meet two portraits of the King and Queen again, this time in a distinctly classical guise.

English, circa 1760.

Provenance: Balcares House, from the London residence of the Earl of Crawford. Awaiting further research.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	55 1⁄2" 141 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	22 3⁄16" 56.5 cms

Stock: 16518

A very ornate and large Louis XV style giltwood overmantel mirror with a beautifully carved frame. The ornate frame comprises slender foliate pilasters, which support a grand pediment embellished with acanthus scrollwork and a floral crest, whilst enclosing marginal plates.
A very decorative Rococo revival mirror.

English, c.1850.

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	Width	Height
	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	74 13⁄16" 190 cms

Stock: 16514

One of a pair of Victorian corbel fireplaces, in a richly figured Languedoc marble. Elegant in its simplicity, the fireplace features a wide shelf over simply moulded corbels. Pair to Stock No. 16513.

English, c.1880.

Outside footblock to outside footblock: 155.5cm

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	Width	Height	Depth
	69 5⁄8" 176.7 cms	48 3⁄16" 122.5 cms	13 1⁄8" 33.4 cms
	38 1⁄4" 97.2 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms

Stock: 16501

A very large and grand Venetian overmantel mirror. The frame is profusely decorated with c scrolls and floral flourishes, and is surmounted by a mirrored cartouche with a rocaille surmount. The original gilding is beautifully worn, with the warm red bole glowing through.

Italian, 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
top	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
bottom	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 12837

A large and dramatic French Baroque fireplace in boldly veined green Verde Naoussa marble with detailed spandrels a large shaped opening over substantial footblocks.
French mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Interior	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms

Stock: 16416

A small and pretty William IV rosewood collectors cabinet on a later mahogany stand. The finely inlaid lacquered brass cabinet with two short draws and a single door with beaded mouldings. This is set above a single draw which pulls out to reveal a box with compartments for small treasures or jewellery. All raised on a later stand, (circa 1920) with square legs.

English, Circa 1830 and later.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 1⁄8" 48.6 cms	47 1⁄8" 119.6 cms	16 1⁄8" 40.8 cms

Stock: 16015

A superb pair of Northern Italian hall chairs in walnut, partially ebonised, inlaid with bone. Each chair has a foliate scrollwork top rail over barley twist supports which enclose beautifully inlaid panels with a number of mythological creatures shown within an arabesque border. The inlay continues below the seat and on the stretcher, which is supporting the four foliate clasped, turned legs.

Northern Italian, possibly Milan. c.1700.

Provenance: Label reads Ex Sir George Saville Lumley, Durham Castle.

Notes:
The hall chair originated in Renaissance Italy, where the 'sgabello' chair graced the entrance hallways of grand palazzi in the 16th century. They remained popular in Italy and came to England with the Grand Tour in the 18th century.

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	width	height	depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 16281

An Edwardian small glass pendant light of bag form, strung with beads of graduating size from a moulded cup fitting.

English, c.1910.

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	Diameter	Drop
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 16329

A Victorian cast iron register grate with an arched opening. Perfect paired with either an arched fireplace, or one with a rectangular opening.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16208

A super simple and very stylish French carrara marble fireplace, in the bolection style. Unlike English bolections, this fireplace has the useful addition of a shelf making it a practical choice when you are looking to decorate a mantelpiece.

French circa 1900.

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	width	height	depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	39" 99 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms

Stock: 15549

A fine Victorian fender in bright steel and bronze, with a rope twist bar, and ornately cast brass brackets.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16486

A striking Napoleon III ebonised and parcel gilt mirror, with a bound laurel frame and acanthus corners enclosing marginal plates. The mirror has a beautifully modelled cartouche and laurel surmount.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	59 3⁄8" 150.8 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 16401

A fine 19th century copy of the Sosibios vase by Handyside & Co in cast iron, with its original stepped plinth base. This was originally retailed by the Handyside foundry at £4 in 1880.

Notes:
This cast iron urn is modelled on a white marble urn from antiquity by Sosibios, a Greek sculptor working in Rome around 50 BC. An English version of the model was later in the 1874 catalogue of A. Handyside and Co. of Derby and London. A set of four painted cast-iron urns of this model sold at Christie's Wrotham Park, 4 June 1991 lot 120. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms
Overall		57 1⁄8" 145 cms

Stock: 16472

19th century Florentine gilt gesso wall mirror carved with acanthus scrollwork and an egg and dart border. A very useful size and can be hung portrait or landscape if desired.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height
	34 3⁄8" 87.5 cms	27" 68.5 cms

Stock: 16381

A fine Adam style brass & steel serpentine fronted fire basket. The three barred grate is munted with engraved brass shoulders and elegant urnular finials.The basket is raised on tall and slender tapered legs, which are centred by a pierced paterae apron.

English, Circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	26" 66 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.3 cms

Stock: 16335

A charming cast iron tiled fireplace with transfer printed and tinted tiles, decorated with scrollwork, poppies and dragonflies.

English, c.1900

	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	51 5⁄8" 131 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 16349

A set of eight framed steel engravings after Thorvaldsen's monumental marble frieze, depicting the "Entrance of Alexander the Great into Babylon". Completed in 1812, this subject was chosen by the marble sculptor to decorate the Palazzo Quirinale in Rome, before a visit from Napoleon. The emperor was so taken with the masterpiece, that he commissioned a replica for the Louvre in Paris, over thirty three metres in length. The sculptor created another version for the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen also.

This set of eight engravings faithfully reproduces the quality of this great work of sculpture, which includes a couple of single figures, later conceived by Thorvaldsen, to increase the scale of the subject for the later commissions. Samuel Amsler (1791-1848) after drawings by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) Published by J.H. Felsing, Darmstadt,1835.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	26 1⁄2" 67.2 cms	17 13⁄16" 45.3 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 15515

An ornate 19th century cast iron and brass fire basket standing on elegant brass monopedia, surmounted by ringed panther masks. The cast iron back is beautifully cast with foliate decoration within the rounded pediment.

English, registration mark for 1888.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Back width	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 16485

A very fine George III wall mirror, with a delicate giltwood frame embodying the lightness of the Chippendale style, with slender c scrolls, trailing foliage and an elegant crest. The frame encloses a very foxed mercury plate.

English, c.1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	28" 71 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16128

A fine gilt gesso George III wall mirror with delicate carving. The intricate frame has fine detailing throughout, including a well carved and delicate crest of foliate form and flowering vines and foliage within a framework of c scrolls.
English, c.1770.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms

Stock: 16489

A fine and large Italian oil on canvas en grisaille depiciting Volumnia and Veturia with their retinue pleading with Coriolanus to make peace with Rome.
The later frame is silver gilt but the painting was perhaps at one time, part of a larger architectural scheme. In cities such as Venice, where damp was a risk, large oil on canvases were used as they resisted the damp and humidity, and could be moved during periods of flooding.

Italian, 19th century.

This scene was immortalised by Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, believed to have been based on the life of the Roman leader, Caius Marcius Coriolanus.

Provenance: The Collection of Sir Rod Stewart

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	Width	Height
	84 5⁄8" 215 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms

Stock: 16409

A very fine Regency steel fender, with a beautifully pierced and engraved palmette decoration, with brass urnular finals.

English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64" 162.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
Internal	60 5⁄8" 154 cms

Stock: 16462

A set of eight William IV barback dining chairs in deep rich mahogany, the open backs with carved foliate scroll horizontal splats, with upholstered stuffover seats, on turned inverted baluster tapered legs, decorated with stylised leaves.

English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	35" 89 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 16350

An antique Louis XV fireplace in Belgian black marble. This strikingly simple fireplace has a moulded shelf over a panelled frieze, which is supported by elegantly canted jambs.

French, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms

Stock: 16366

A fine pair of large 19th century Imari porcelain vases and covers, with a generous baluster form and lightly fluted bodies. The covers are topped with a bowing foo dog, and the body of the vases are beautifully hand painted in red, blue and gold with phoenixes and fans among a floral display.

Japanese, Meiji period, c.1870.

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	Diameter	Height
	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 16353

A very fine Louis XV Rococo fireplace in a breche marble with deep violet veining.

French, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	56 7⁄8" 144.5 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms

Stock: 16166

An Aesthetic Movement cast iron and brass fireplace insert with hand painted tiles. The brass is very much in the manner of Jekyll but the two sets of beautifully painted tiles are the true focal point, with a scene of a butterfly flitting over a tussock across three tiles, framed by quintessentially aesthetic movement tiles painted with stylised strawberry plants and orange trees.

English, c.1870.

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	width	height	depth
	41 13⁄16" 106.2 cms	38" 96.6 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 15642

A pair of grand Renaissance Revival ewers in alabaster. The magnificent handles are models as phoenixes perching on the rib of the slender ewers, which are beautifully carved with acanthus leaves and ribbon tied posies.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	24 3⁄16" 61.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 16456

A set of ten fine William IV balloon back dining chairs in Rosewood with drop in upholstered seats and carved Rococo back rails, supported on turned front legs.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 16352

A fine and large French Louis XV Rococo fireplace in a beautifully veined arabescato marble. The Serpentine shelf sits above the panelled frieze which is centred by a dramatic acanthus cartouche. and c scroll acanthus endblocks sit above the elegant console jambs, raised on plain footblocks.

French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 1⁄4" 178.5 cms	44 3⁄16" 112.3 cms	16 11⁄16" 42.5 cms
Internal	51 13⁄16" 131.5 cms	37 1⁄8" 94.3 cms

Stock: 15644

A grand and imposing Victorian fireplace in dramatic portoro marble, with rare and beautiful Cornish serpentine columns. The fireplace's inverted breakfront shelf looms over an undershelf studded with crisplycarved Cornish serpentine dentils. Under this, the central keystone, ionic capitals and bases are highlighted in dramatic Belgian black marble. The double full columns stand out in serpentine against the bold gold veining of the portoro. The columns are mounted on generous footblocks and frame the arched opening.
English, c.1860.

Outer jamb to outer jamb measurement: 211cm.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	95 3⁄8" 242.3 cms	53 11⁄16" 136.3 cms	18 5⁄8" 47.2 cms
	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms

Stock: 16056

A good quality Georgian style fire basket of minimalist form, the bright steel three barred grate adorned with urnular finials over reeded legs, and a pierced apron.

English, c.1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	36" 91.5 cms	25 13⁄16" 65.5 cms	14" 35.5 cms
Back width	18 5⁄8" 47.3 cms

Stock: 15430

A very fine Victorian register grate with a fox hunting theme. The cast iron and brass insert conforms to the style of the Aesthetic movement, with the exception of the rare gilt brass panels, cast in high relief with a horse and rider, a stag, a fox, a retriever and a hound. A rider's crop and a huntsman's horn form part of the decorative scheme. Likely to have been a special commission for a country residence!

English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms