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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.

View our collection of: Antique, old vintage fountains, sculptures, garden furniture and statuary

	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.

View our collection of: Antique Victorian, William IV and Edwardian fireplaces and chimneypieces.

	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

Stock: 16198

A sturdy set of Victorian steel fire tools, with faceted handles and a simply pierced shovel.
Victorian, c.1870.

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Stock: 16197

A set of smart Victorian fire tools, comprising tongs, a poker and shovel, with elegantly turned handles and slender shafts, the shovel with a simple pierced decorations.
English, c.1860.

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Stock: 16195

An antique steel fire tool stand with a knopped finial and a slender stem. Perfect to accompany a set of our antique steel fire tools.
English, c.1890.

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Stock: 16057

A stylish and strikingly modern antique marble bolection fireplace in beautifully veined portoro marble with its original matching fender and cast iron work, not yet photographed.
English, circa 1920.

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	width	height	depth
External	64" 162.6 cms	44" 111.7 cms	4" 10.2 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	36" 91.4 cms

Stock: 16179

A very fine Regency card table in Rosewood with intricate brass inlay. The swivel and foldover top has its original green baize playing surface and provides a useful storage area. The tapered pedestal is also beautifully inlaid and is mounted on a quatreform base with outwept legs terminating in brass paw feet.
English, c.1825.

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	Width
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms

Stock: 16229

A fine pair of early Regency ebonised and parcel gilt side chairs, the square backs inset with painted panels reminiscent of the domestic Roman frescoes of Pompeii, over caned seats.
English, c.1815.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 16227

An unusual George I 'mulberry' cabinet in the manner of Coxed and Woster. The cross banded and veneered walnut doors reveal a fine fitted interior which is also beautiful veneered, including a number of hidden drawers, which are beautifully scumbled.
English, c.1710, with restorations.

Notes: It is now widely accepted that much furniture which was commonly thought to be 'mulberry' is in fact stained burr elm, walnut, maple or alder. The popularity of these veneers in the 1690-1730 period is thought to stem from its tortoiseshell like appearance. If mulberry wood is ebonised to reinforce its markings it does not take the staining effectively whereas with elm, walnut, maple and alder the porous parts of the woods retain the dark streaks giving this dramatic tortoiseshell-like appearance.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	61 13⁄16" 157 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 16243

A large Continental carved gilt wood panel the central carved aromorial cartouche surrounded by carved acanthus leaves and vines, on a blue painted background.
French, mid-18th century.

This panel would look stunning over a fireplace, or even mounted on the ceiling.

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	Width	Height
	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	67 1⁄4" 171 cms

Stock: 16272

A late Victorian cast iron register grate, with cast foliate decoration and a set of 10 sepia transfer printed tiles in the neoclassical style.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38" 96.4 cms	38" 96.5 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16260

A set of four framed hand-coloured copper engravings depicting English country houses and their estates by Johannes Kip, from his Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne. Published London by J Smith, c.1720.

Notes: Johannes Kip was a Dutch born engraver who settled in London c.1680, his Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne is considered one of the most important 18th century English topographical works as it meticulously documented buildings, gardens and other such features lost to the march of time.

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	Width	Height
	26" 66 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 16123

A rare neoclassical chimneypiece of exceptional quality in statuary marble with a lapis lazuli tablet. The inverse breakfront shelf is supported by a boldly carved egg and dart undershelf which rests on a crisply carved, reeded frieze. The frieze is mounted with an exceptionally fine lapis lazuli tablet with an applied low relief scene in statuary marble depicting a pair of cavorting putti. This is flanked by floral paterae endblocks over jambs finely carved with flat corbels, terminating in bellflowers.
English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 1⁄4" 186.1 cms	58 7⁄8" 149.5 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	44 1⁄4" 112.5 cms	43 1⁄8" 109.6 cms

Stock: 16151

A William IV foldover tea table in beautifully mottled plum pudding mahogany, with a fluted baluster stem and a quatrefoil plinth over scrolled feet on castors.
English, c. 1830.

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	Width
	36" 91.5 cms

Stock: 16246

A Victorian chimneypiece in a grey mottled St Anne marble, with a stepped frieze and fluted pilaster jambs, striking in its simplicity.
English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 1⁄4" 158.2 cms	49 1⁄4" 125.3 cms	11 1⁄4" 28.6 cms
Internal	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	40 3⁄16" 102.2 cms

Stock: 16124

A fine statuary marble Regency chimneypiece in the manner of Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807). The plain shelf sits over a slender panelled frieze, which is flanked by stylised oak leaf endblocks over jambs finely carved with ribbon tied oak leaves and acorns. This chimneypiece is reminiscent of the work of Samuel Wyatt, as the carving on the jambs is remarkably similar to his chimneypiece designed for Sundridge Park.
English, c.1805.

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	width	height	depth
External	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms
Internal	39 1⁄2" 100.3 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.3 cms

Stock: 15619

A charming William IV cast iron fire basket in a shape reminiscent of a Savonarola chair, adorned with ringed lion masks.
English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Back width	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 16183

A pair of colonial armchairs in rosewood, with scroll and bar backs, and melon section posts. Upholstered drop in seats over fluted legs.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms

Stock: 15439

An imposing Regency statuary marble chimneypiece with a bold geometric design to the frieze and the jambs, and laurel wreath endblocks. This strikingly modern design embedded within the Greek Revival style is very much the antecedent to the Art Deco, despite being designed over a hundred years before the modernist style. This chimneypiece is of exceptional quality.
Irish, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	84 1⁄8" 213.5 cms	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms	12" 30.6 cms
Internal	50 3⁄16" 127.5 cms	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms

Stock: 15503

A grisaille oil on canvas study of cherries on a cut stem. This carefully rendered picture creates a trompe l'oeil effect, reminiscent of decorative plasterwork, or a carved marble tablet.

Unsigned but certainly by a very competent hand. Original silver gilt frame. Possibly French, c.1880.

	Width	Height	Depth
	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms	1 3⁄8" 3.5 cms

Stock: 4506

A weathered carved stone bust of Moliere, the 17th century French playwright (1622 - 1673) looking to dexter.
French, circa 1720.

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	width	height
	21" 53.3 cms	25" 63.5 cms

Stock: 14802

An imposing and striking large fireplace in highly polished Belgian Black Marble. The wide and deep moulded shelf sits above a panelled frieze with a crisply carved central tablet, which is flanked by two lion mask endblocks over wide panelled jambs and plain footblocks.
French, c.1900.

Link to: Antique French chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire fireplace mantels.

	width	height	depth
External	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	43 3⁄8" 110.2 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms
Internal	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	36" 91.4 cms

Stock: 16173

A gilt brass fender in the Rococo style, the central bar allowing the width of the fender to be adjusted. The Rococo chenet are indicative of the scrolling leaves of an acanthus.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 16085

An ornate Victorian brass hearth fender of a compact size, decorated with lions rampant holding blank shields flanking the pierced bar.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width
	37 13⁄16" 96 cms