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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.

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	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: 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	Height	Depth
max	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms
min	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 16235

A pair of 19th century flame mahogany and ebony lined pedestal cupboards, the rectangular tops above a panelled cupboard door, each opening to a single shelf, enclosed by lion mask capitals, raised on ebonised paw feet.
English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 16065

A superb early nineteenth-century Regency library or writing table. The beautifully figured rosewood top sits above a single drawer above octagonal columns which rest on platform bases with concealed castor mounted feet.
English or Scottish, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	53 7⁄8" 137 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 16196

A nineteenth-century steel fire tool stand perfect to accompany a set of fire tools.
English, c.1860.

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Stock: 16031

An elegant Arts and Crafts copper and brass three branch ceiling light in the manner of W.A.S. Benson. The three copper foliate arms are hung with vaseline / uranium glass bell shades.
English, c.1890.

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	Diameter	Drop
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	35" 89 cms

Stock: 16101

A very fine early George III giltwood wall mirror in the manner of Thomas Chippendale, the frame with a finely carved scrolling acanthus crest and trailing foliage with the merest suggestion of the pagoda corners associated with Chippendale's designs. Original gilding.
English, c.1760.

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	Width	Height
	24" 61 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms

Stock: 16093

A large and grand pair of gilt gesso Victorian overmantel mirrors. The slender spiral fluted frames are surmounted by eagles on rocky outcrops, situated within a thistle decoration.
Provenance: Runnymede Park, Surrey.

English, c.1850.

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	Width	Height
	48" 122 cms	59 13⁄16" 152 cms

Stock: 16127

A fine and large English Rococo wall mirror, with beautifully soft gilding. The sinuous frame is carved with sweeping foliate decoration which trails over the Rococo shell motifs to the top and bottom of the frame. Original silvered mirror plate.
English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	53 7⁄8" 137 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16079

A 19th century giltwood and gesso framed wall mirror in the Rococo style, with a delicately moulded and scrolling frame of foliate and Rococo design, the mirror plate held with a bound laurel border.
English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 16148

A French Louis XV Rococo Overmantel Mirror with fine gilding. The elegant sweeping frame is surmounted by a rocaille detail and open scroll cresting.
French, c.1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	68 7⁄8" 175 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 15997

A fine French giltwood wall mirror, the gilded frame carved with scrolls and foliate flourishes over a wide mirrored border.

Southern French (possibly Provence), c.1770 with restorations.

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	Width	Height
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms

Stock: 16051

A rare eighteenth-century English Rococo chimneypiece. Finely carved from pure white statuary marble, this fireplace epitomises Georgian England's interpretation of the Rococo style, which had originated in France.

The serpentine shelf rests above an ornately carved frieze, where the decorative elements appear to take the form of seaweed, with ribbon kelp and a central scallop shell cartouche.
English, c.1780

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	43 3⁄8" 110.2 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Internal	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	36" 91.4 cms

Stock: 16081

A pair of late 19th century patinated bronze garniture urns cast as models of the Warwick vases. The pedestal bodies with lion pelt and mask-head decoration in high relief and elaborately entwined handles, each raised on a waisted circular fluted socle base, supported on stepped Belgian black marble square plinths, raised on paw feet.

English, c.1880.

Notes: The Warwick Vase was excavated from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, and dates to the second century AD. Hamilton sold the vase to his nephew, the 2nd Earl of Warwick, who built a specially commissioned conservatory in the grounds of Warwick Castle to house it.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 15890

A fine Regency convex mirror with parcel-gilt frame surmounted by a giltwood foliate crest.
English or Scottish, c.1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18" 45.8 cms	33" 83.8 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 15877

A rare set of plaster intaglios by Nathaniel Marchant. Originally, this set of casts of Nathaniel's gems was sold by subscription with the accompanying catalogue, published in 1792. It is rare to have a collection of any great quantity, this set is complete, bar four intaglios which are not present. They are mounted within their original ebony strung, mahogany case, which is glazed and fashioned as a book, complete with remnants of marbling. When the spine is removed, the interior is revealed.
Complete sets are exceptionally rare, and one set is held at the John Soane Museum, purchased by Soane in 1793.

English, c.1792.

Nathaniel Marchant (1739-1816) was arguably the most famous gem engraver of the 18th century, prolific in both Italy and England. He was gem sculptor to the Prince of Wales and engraver to The King.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Closed	10" 25.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.6 cms
Opened	19 3⁄8" 49.4 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 15872

A fine late nineteenth century fireplace in beautifully veined serravezza marble. The fireplace is simply carved, allowing the marble to take centre stage. The moulded shelf sits above a paneled frieze centred by a flited tablet and flanked by acanthus paterae endblocks. These rest on stop fluted jambs over plain footblocks.
French, c.1880.

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	width	height	depth
External	60 3⁄8" 153.5 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.6 cms
Internal	43 1⁄8" 109.5 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms

Stock: 16063

A very pair of large gilt bronze vase table lamps, taking the form of the Townley Vase. The vases are modelled on a krater, a Greek vessel used for mixing water and wine. Each vase has elegantly scrolling bifurcated gilt handles, and the body of the vases are cast in high relief and depict a bacchanalian procession, featuring Bacchus on Ariadne. The vases are mounted on Belgian black marble pedestal bases, on which are mounted masks of a woman. English, c.1900.

Notes: The Townley Vase is a large Roman marble vase after a Greek original. The vase, dating from the 2nd century, was discovered in 1773 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish Antiquarian. Its name comes from the English collector Charles Townley, who purchased the vase after its discovery. After his death, the vase was brought to its final home, the British Museum.

Shades not included.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 16069

A terracotta group 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, seated on a panther in a relaxed pose. The panther was a creature associated with the god of wine, and here, his wreath of vine leaves emphasizes his connection with the deity.
L Hjorth Factory, Danish, c.1880.

Provenance: Coleridge Collection. Anthony Coleridge was well-known in auction circles, a Director of Christie's as well as Chairman and later President of Christie’s South Kensington. He was a keen collector, not just of furniture, but in particular of works of art and ceramics, and he looked after his collection meticulously and recorded it in considerable detail.

Notes: Johann Heinrich Dannecker(1758-1841), a German sculptor who found that the works of classical antiquity made a deep impression on him, as well as the work of Antonio Canova.

The Hjorth Factory was located in Roenne on Bornholm, and island off Denmark, and was founded in 1859.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms	3 3⁄8" 8.6 cms

Stock: 16068

A Parian Ware group 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. Although this example of Parian Ware is unmarked it is the same model produced by Minton & Co in 1847 until the 1860s for Summerly’s Art Manufactures. The model - by John Bell (1811-1895) was available as tourist souvenirs.

Provenance: Coleridge Collection. Anthony Coleridge was well-known in auction circles, a Director of Christie's as well as Chairman and later President of Christie’s South Kensington. He was a keen collector, not just of furniture, but in particular of works of art and ceramics, and he looked after his collection meticulously and recorded it in considerable detail.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	7 3⁄16" 18.4 cms	3 1⁄2" 8.9 cms

Stock: 16100

A pair of nineteenth-century terracotta twin-handled urns painted in black to simulate Josiah Wedgwood's renowned black basalt. Later converted to table lamps with gilt stands and covers and a base fitted with the lamp fitting, leaving the urns unaltered, so they could be displayed in their original format.
German, mid-19th century.

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		Height
		15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms

Stock: 16102

A set of six ornithological copper engravings, depicting five birds drawn and painted by Peter Brown, recorded from specimens collected during Captain Cook's voyages with Joseph Banks. In his publication, Peter Brown asserted that these birds hadn't been recorded before, so these were the first commercially available depictions and descriptions of these birds.
Peter Brown was a leading zoological artist of his day but the ornithologist George Edwards was also a prominent figure in eighteenth-centruy Britain, and this set includes one engraving by him, of a Great Bustard. The set is a beautiful and fascinating record of the great discoveries of their age.

Peter Brown, published by B White, 1775, George Edwards, published c. 1751. Copper-engravings, original hand colour.

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	Width	Height
	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms	10" 25.5 cms

Stock: 16080

A Florentine gilt wall mirror of foliate design with a bevelled glass plate.
Italian, c.1950.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	23 13⁄16" 60.5 cms	28" 71 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16008

An Aesthetic Movement ebonised and parcel gilt centre or library table by Maple and Co, Tottenham Court Road, London. The gilt and painted panelled frieze with a single lockable draw is decorated with stylised foliage and sunflowers with carver foliate details to the corners. All supported on turned legs and a lower shelf with galleried ends, above a double stretcher with turned spindles. The top edge of the draw is stamped MAPLE & CO.

English, circa 1880.

Established in 1841, Maple and Co were leading makers and retailers of fine furniture, operating from their warehouse and showroom on Tottenham Court Road. They enjoying international acclaim, and had an outfit in Paris in order to satiate the continents appetite for their wares.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 15535

A set of three small silver plated five arm chandeliers in the Dutch Baroque style.
English, c.1930.

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	Diameter	Drop
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 15639

An antique gilt brass fire screen in the shape of a fan, commonly known as a peacock screen. The intricately pierced leaves fold within an ornate gilt brass frame with bound laurel decoration, topped with an urn finial.
French, c.1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	27" 68.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 15898

A large and ornate pair of Rococo two branch wall lights in gilt brass, comprising intricately scrolling foliage, and slender arms which are mounted with drip pans in the form of flowers.

English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 15941

A petite Louis XVI fireplace in softly mottled Carrara marble. This charming fireplace consists of a moulded shelf which rests above a frieze which is beautifully carved with a ribboned garland of laurel leaves. This is flanked by acanthus paterae endblocks over canted stop fluted jambs.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	53" 134.5 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	15 1⁄8" 38.3 cms
Internal	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms

Stock: 16036

A striking 1920s glass lustre chandelier with moulded glass canopy over strings of faceted glass lozenges descending to a bowl constructed of prism rods, hung with further faceted drops and orb. An usual and very striking chandelier of excellent quality, on a silvered frame.

English, c.1920.

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	Diameter	Drop
	15" 38 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms

Stock: 15907

A large and grand Rococo white statuary marble fireplace, profusely carved in high relief to create a true statement piece. The moulded serpentine shelf sits an ornate frieze, carved with stylised acanthus leaves and flowers, centred by a beautifully carved scallop shell cartouche. This motif is echoed in the C scroll cartouche which sits above bold console jambs, also carved with flowers and curling acanthus leaves.

Scottish, mid-19th century.

Provenance: From a private Belgian collection.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 7⁄8" 169.8 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	14" 35.6 cms
Internal	41 13⁄16" 106.1 cms	34 1⁄2" 87.7 cms

Stock: 16002

A pair of fine Arita ware jars and covers, finely hand-painted with organic floral decoration.
Japanese, c.1880.

Notes: It is said that a Korean ceramist travelled to Japan and discovered a seam of porcelain stone in the province of Arita the early 17th century. Following this discovery, the manufacture of ceramics proliferated in Arita, and much was exported by the Dutch East India company to Europe, where was revered for its quality.

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	Diameter	Height
	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	12 13⁄16" 32.5 cms

Stock: 16013

A fine pair of 19th century and later ormolu wall sconces, each modelled as an Atlas figure stood upon a curved bracket with acanthus support, supporting a plain globe mounted with three scrolling branches with beaded sockets above foliate drip pans.

French, c.1890 with later modification to light fittings.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13" 33 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 15960

A pair of Aesthetic Movement andirons attributed to Thomas Jekyll and possibly made by Barnard, Bishop and Barnards. Although unmarked, they possess the qualities of Jekyll's designs, with his signature use of Japanese mons within the decoration on the shafts. The rosettes symbolise night and day and with beautiful repoussé work a Kingfisher on a branch represents Day, or dawn, with the sun rising behind him, whilst the owl represents Night and is surrounded by stars.
English, c.1875.

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 Jekyll.
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.

	Width	Height	Depth
	7" 17.7 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 16025

A pair of good quality patinated bronze two tier nine branch chandeliers in the Dutch style.
English, c.1930.

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	Diameter	Drop
	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	22" 56 cms