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Stock: 16319

A fine George III giltwood wall mirror very much in the Chippendale manner, the fine frame a profusion of c scrolls and stylised foliate decoration naturalistically entwined. Original mercury plate.
Irish, c.1760.

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	Width	Height
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	39" 99 cms

Stock: 16318

A fine George III Irish giltwood mirror. The elegant frame is carved with c scrolls and acanthus leaves, with floral garlands to the sides. The frame is surmounted by rocaille motif very much of the English Rococo style.

Irish, c.1760.

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	Width	Height
	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	44 7⁄8" 114 cms

Stock: 16303

A fine George III English Rococo period giltwood wall mirror, the frame carved with scrolling foliage and c scrolls. Small but perfectly formed!

English, c.1780

Provenance: the property of connoisseur Michael Godfrey.

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	Width	Height
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	2" 5 cms

Stock: 16252

A fine Louis XVI Carrara marble chimneypiece with ormolu mounts. The moulded shelf sits over a panelled frieze which has a fine tablet mounted with an ormolu cornucopia decoration, and the panels highlighted with ormolu beading. The ormolu continues in the form of acanthus paterae, ormolu husks and bound laurel on the stop fluted jambs.

French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	42 13⁄16" 108.7 cms	15" 38 cms
Internal	40 13⁄16" 103.6 cms	32 1⁄2" 82.5 cms

Stock: 15233

A very fine Louis XVI marble chimneypiece, possibly made for the English market in beautifully matched dove grey bardiglio fiorito. The marble has exceptional veining which is book matched on the jambs. The moulded shelf sits above a frieze carved with crisp volutes which are echoed in the jambs.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 3⁄16" 142.7 cms	48" 121.8 cms	13 7⁄8" 35.2 cms
Internal	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 16251

A very fine three door Victorian, ebonized, ormolu and inlaid Credenza. The three doors, two of which are glazed are separated by turned, carved, gilded and ebonised columns, supporting a delicately inlaid frieze with ormolu detail. The central door is finely and profusely inlaid in the italianate manner with Amboyna and Box on a Harewood ground surrounded by Acanthus ormolu panel mouldings and Amboyna fielding, which is echoed on the glazed doors. The lower frieze with further inlay is supported on short turned and ebonised legs. The polished Mahogany interior is fitted with shelves finished with Harewood and Box edging.

English, circa 1870. 

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	Width	Height	Depth
	73 1⁄4" 186.2 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms

Stock: 16162

A really striking and large Victorian fireplace in Bardiglio Fiorito marble. The wide and deep shelf is supported by simple corbels on plan jambs. The angled inner returns are a really unusual feature and give this fireplace a substantial presence.

English, c.1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 1⁄2" 199.3 cms	55" 139.7 cms	13 7⁄8" 35.4 cms
Internal	39 3⁄8" 100.2 cms	40 7⁄8" 103.9 cms

Stock: 16131

An Early Victorian flame Mahogany inverted breakfront chiffonier. The lower cabinet containing a single door with carved central detail and beautifully figured panel, is flanked by two pairs of substantial turned columns, beneath the plain frieze consisting of three drawers, the central door and drawer are both fitted with Bramah locks. The upper section consists of two shelves, with crossband moulded edges, supported on pairs of turned columns in the form of cannon.

English, circa 1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 16307

A small Louis XVI Bardiglio Fiorito marble fireplace, the moulded shelf sits snugly above the simply panelled frieze, which is flanked by simple rounded endblocks over angled jambs.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	42" 106.8 cms	14 11⁄16" 37.3 cms
Internal	38 1⁄2" 97.7 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms

Stock: 16306

A fine pompadour chimneypiece in a boldly veined nero marquina marble, with a panelled frieze and angled jambs. The perfect small fireplace that would work well in both period or contemporary interiors.
French, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	33 13⁄16" 85.8 cms

Stock: 16305

A beautiful Pompadour chimneypiece in a boldly veined breche violette fireplace. The serpentine panelled frieze is supported by angled panelled jambs over plain footblocks. Small but perfectly formed!

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	54 5⁄8" 138.7 cms	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	14 1⁄4" 36.2 cms

Stock: 16304

A Louis XVI fireplace in a boldly veined breche violette marble. The simply moulded shelf rests above a panelled frieze and square endblocks, over simple volute jambs. A celebration of this beautiful marble.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Internal	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms

Stock: 16285

A fine Scottish Rococo statuary marble chimneypiece. The moulded serpentine shelf rests above a dramatic panelled frieze, centred by a rocailled motif, and scrolling foliate decoration. This is echoed by the beautifully carved c scroll enblocks, aboce console jambs decorated with hanging bellflowers, and terminating in scrolling acanthus leaves.
Scottish Rococo chimneypieces are much rarer than their continental counterparts.

Scottish, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	67" 170.2 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	7 11⁄16" 19.5 cms
Internal	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms	38 7⁄8" 98.8 cms

Stock: 16273

A rare Irish chimneypiece of grand proportions in statuary marble. The generous moulded shelf rests over a wide panelled frieze which is mounted with a tablet of exceptional quality. It depicts a recumbent Poseidon, god of the sea, being drawn on a seashell chariot by hippocampi, all carved in an artful blend of high and low relief. This scene is flanked by the most glorious endblocks, each a crouching Aphrodite, situated within a scallop shell. These crouch above freestanding Doric columns. The strikingly simple elegance of the chimneypiece is a perfect foil for the beautifully carved tablet and spectacular endblocks.

Irish, c.1820.

Provenance: Raheen House, Raheen, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Southern Ireland. By repute, the chimneypiece was installed at Raheen House by the then owners of the house, the Burke family, circa 1889, when they apparently acquired it in lieu of a part payment for a warehouse. This commercial building was purchased by the Loreto Convent of Clonmel to be used as a religious school when their own school was damaged by fire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	83 7⁄8" 213 cms	54 11⁄16" 139 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Internal	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 16295

An exceptionally fine late Renaissance walnut cabinet from Tuscany. The two-part cabinet comprises an upper section of three cupboards concealing double shelves, and three drawers, divided by slender pilasters. The lower section is the inverse, and is supported on ionic capital feet. It also possesses early locks, and associated key.
This cabinet is characteristic of pieces that were made for the residences of Tuscan nobles during the late-Renaissance, and exhibits regional characteristics associated with furniture made in this region. Very few pieces of this quality survive from this period.

Italian, c.1590. With restorations, commensurate with age.

Villa Cenami, Lucca.

	Width	Height	Depth
	71 3⁄8" 181.4 cms	77" 195.5 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.3 cms

Stock: 15738

A Victorian Sundial with a gardrooned fireclay pedestal, possibly Garnick. An associated bronze sundial that is a perfect fit.
English or Scottish, c. 1880.

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		Height
		47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 16019

A French Rococo Revival firescreen in gilt brass with a scrolling foliate frame and mounted with a cast decoration depicting a putto holding bellows.

French, c.1890.

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	Width	Height
	22" 56 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms

Stock: 16199

A fine set of early Georgian fire tools, with small knopped finials and a beautifully shaped shovel.
English, c.1770.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16152

A pair of small glass chandeliers, each with a fluted central column and five swan neck branches hung with faceted beads and pear shaped drops.

English, c.1950.

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	Diameter	Drop
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms
With Chain		35" 89 cms

Stock: 15851

A fine gilt brass firescreen in the Louis XV taste, with a scrolling foliate frame, and trailing foliage mounted on fine mesh. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 8232

A very smart English Regency specimen marble chimneypiece in Kilkenny Black Fossil Marble inlaid with Breche Violette marble panels which have been cut and opened like a book to reveal symetrical veining. The oval plaque on the frieze and the flanking end blocks are of inlaid Convent Sienna Marble. English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69" 175.3 cms	55 11⁄16" 141.6 cms	6" 15.2 cms
Internal	43" 109.2 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms

Stock: 16174

A fine and large William IV library or centre table in rosewood, the top with a concealed drawer supported by an octagonal baluster stem over a quatreform base and scrolled feet. A very useful piece of furniture!
English, c.1835.

Provenance: Lockerley Hall, Hampshire

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	Width	Height	Depth
	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 15910

An exceptional pair of large alabaster lidded vases in the manner of Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850). The lidded urns of baluster form, are finely carved from translucent alabaster the body of the vase depicting classical scenes, the lids topped with a fruiting finial, resting on the slender everted necks with egg and dart rim.
Italian, c.1820, with restorations.

Notes: Lorenzo Bartolini was born in Tuscany and studied in Florence and at the Officina Inghirami in Volterra, a workshop established in 1791 which produced alabaster sculpture and objects in the neoclassical style for Grand Tourist and other wealthy patrons. In 1797 he moved to Paris, where he became a close friend of Ingres and the favoured sculptor of Napoléon, who sent him to Carrara in 1807 to direct the Academy of Sculpture. Later he settled in Florence, where his Grand Tour patrons included Thomas Hope and the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

Lorenzo Bartolini began his career on high quality decorative urns and tazzi for visiting grand tourists. A series of 19 sketches with designs for such vases was published.

	Diameter	Height
	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms	44 1⁄2" 113 cms
with wooden base		48 3⁄8" 123 cms

Stock: 16242

A large deep green serpentine marble pedestal column with a crescent shaped top, supported by delicately carved acanthus leaf carving over the tapering shaft with ribbon-tied flowers, on an octagonal base. Perfect for a piece of sculpture.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 16146

An unusual pedestal, converted from a printing roller, with a heart and diamond decoration on the copper roll, which is mounted by a turned oak top and base.
English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 16212

An early 18th century glazed walnut vitrine cabinet on stand. The arch topped display cabinet has its original glass and slender astragals, revealing two shelves and a concealed drawer. The elegant stand of Tuscan column formed legs, are raised on solid ebony bun feet.
Dutch, c.1720 with restorations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms	79 7⁄8" 203 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16164

A large Victorian chimneypiece in a striking, dramatically veined bardiglio fiorito marble. The large shelf rests on simply carved corbels, which flank a wide and plain frieze, over wide plain jambs with angled returns. This fireplace would be well suited to both a traditional, and a contemporary interior, due to its imposing simplicity.
English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	75 3⁄8" 191.5 cms	48 3⁄16" 122.5 cms	11 5⁄8" 29.5 cms
Internal	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	37 3⁄8" 95 cms

Stock: 15650

A small and elegant Regency fireplace with a reeded frieze and jambs. The central tablet is carved with a neoclassical urn flanked by ram's heads and the endblocks are simply rendered with floral paterae.
English. c. 1820.

Photographs before cleaning and restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	61" 155 cms	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms
	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 16230

A fine antique cut glass and gilt brass chandelier of exceptional quality of a tent and waterfall design, profusely hung with beads and prism drops, issuing eight scrolling foliate gilt brass arms.
English, mid-19th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	46 1⁄8" 117 cms

Stock: 16145

A superb octagonal centre table in the manner of Thomas King. The fine octagonal top in book matched pollard oak veneer, inlaid with a satinwood border, on a pit sawn oak top. This rests on four spiral twist legs joined by scrolling stretchers and is raised on bun feet with concealed castors.
English, c.1840.

In 1835, the cabinet maker Thomas King published 'Specimens of Furniture in the Elizabethan & Louis Quatorze Styles', and this table is reminiscent of the designs printed in this publication. Thomas King was a much admired cabinet maker and published over a dozen pattern books during his career.

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	Diameter	Height
	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms

Stock: 16222

A fine Rosewood William IV ottoman box stool, upholstered in leather with a lightly padded top. English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 16269

A fine alabaster figure of Ariadne and the Panther, after the marble sculpture by Johann Heinrich Dannecker, which was one of the most renowned works of sculpture of the nineteenth-century, drawing huge crowds to view it in Frankfurt, in the "Ariadneum" built solely for its display.
It depicts the Cretan princess Ariadne, wife of the god of wine Dionysus (identified by her crown of vine leaves), seated on a panther in a relaxed pose. The panther was a creature associated with the god of wine.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 15777

Pair of large hand painted chinoiserie design black lacquer baluster table lamps with gilt decoration.

Chinese, c.1920.

Shades not included.

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	Diameter	Height
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 10919

A beautiful early Victorian Derbyshire fossil marble fireplace. The marble is a beautiful soft dove grey and is studded with a plethora of fascinating fossils. This is one of the finest examples we have seen of a fossil marble fireplace.
English, circa 1840.

Notes from the Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones: The fossilised remains of crinoids (sea lilies) and corals are particularly abundant in Carboniferous Limestone, a geological formation that outcrops in various parts of Britain including Sheldon Moor, in the Derbyshire Peak District. It is rarely quarried for decorative use today. The 6th Duke of Devonshire, was responsible for bringing some of the Derbyshire stone to Rome and there are rare examples of its use in pietre dure work of the early 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	61 3⁄8" 156 cms	48" 122 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms
Internal	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 16201

A fine set of 19th century steel fire tools, topped with brass finials in the Rococo taste.
English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms