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Stock: 16338

A fine Louis XVI style gilt gesso overmantel mirror. The egg and dart frame encloses marginal plates and is surmounted by an ornate pediment of scrolling foliate decoration.
Original mercury glass.

French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	73 3⁄16" 186 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 16368

A set of three Georgian firetools in steel, the shovel with a pierced palmette decoration in the Adam manner, with urnular handles.

Provenance: Property of a Gentleman from a Knightsbridge residence.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 16337

An exceptional Gothic Revival stone chimneypiece from Woodchester Mansion. Carved from soft buff coloured Bath stone, this chimneypiece is a celebration of nature, with a floral undershelf beautifully carved in high relief. This rests on a frieze carved with five foliate panels. One panel is carved with a vine, the other a flowering lily, the central panel depicts two birds devouring grapes from a vine, the next, a British oak laden with acorns, and the final panel, a fruiting ivy.
This beautiful carving is surpassed only on the spandrels, where on one side it is carved with a grapevine, and on the other a serpent is shown within a fruiting tree, evoking the story of Eve. The jambs are deftly carved with floral paterae and grapevines over moulded footblocks.

This piece is an extraordinary survival from the unfinished Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. By repute it was designed and made for the mansion but was never installed as the building project was left unfinished. AWN Pugin drew up early plans for this house, but the project was later taken on by Benjamin Bucknall. It is uncertain whether this chimneypiece was designed by Pugin, or was in fact designed by Bucknall, but it does share many stylistic similarities to the stonework throughout the rest of the house. Sadly after the patron of the project died, his Gothic vision was never realised in full.

English, c.1860

Provenance: Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire.

View our collection of: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	55 3⁄8" 140.7 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	8" 20.3 cms
Internal	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 16362

Large and finely carved Florentine giltwood wall mirror, with a scrolling acanthus leaf frame. A very diverse mirror that can be hung either landscape or portrait.
Italian, Florence, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	45 7⁄8" 116.5 cms	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 16322

A fine Jacobean Revival chimneypiece with exceptional stone ingrounds. The oak chimneypiece is beautifully carved, the high shelf with four nude terms dressed with elaborate headpieces carved in high relief, whilst the frieze is carved with Jacobean fretwork in crisp low relief. The tapered jambs support two portrait endblocks and terminate in high footblocks, which rest over the stone. This encloses the spectacular ingrounds, which have a beautiful frieze carved with foliate scrolls and two opposing birds.

English, 19th century.

Provenance: A country house in Cheshire.

View our collection of: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	width	height	depth
External	82 1⁄2" 209.6 cms	60" 152.4 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	47" 119.4 cms

Stock: 16344

A fine and rare pair of 18th century George III wall mirrors with original mercury plates. Each plate is bordered by a giltwood frame of foliate design woven with c and s scrolls, very much in the Chippendale manner.

It is very rare to come across such a fine pair of mirrors of this date.
English, c.1760.

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	Width	Height
	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	49 5⁄8" 126 cms

Stock: 16340

A good 18th century Venetian mirror with original mercury plates. The gilded frame takes a loosely organic form and interprets the French Rococo style, with a rather more traditional frame boldly embellished with organic c scrolls and foliate flourishes.

Venetian, c.1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 16294

A fine mid-eighteenth century Venetian giltwood wall mirror. The elegant mirror is profusely decorated with foliate c scrolls in the Rococo manner, with floral flourishes and an elegant finial above an additional mirror plate. With original mercury plates.

Northern Italian, c.1760.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms

Stock: 16225

A large 19th century French overmantel mirror in the Rococo style. The generous frame has an unusual pie crust edge and is surmounted by a foliate crest in the Rococo manner.

French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	70 1⁄2" 179 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 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.

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

	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: 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.

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

	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: 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.

View our collection of: Antique Firescreens.

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

View our collection of: Antique candelabras, candlesticks and lamps

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

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.

View our collection of: Antique Baroque Chimneypieces inc English, Italian, French, Flemish Bolection fireplace mantels.

	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: 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: 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: 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.

View our collection of: antique wall tapestries, panels and paintings

	Width	Height
	26" 66 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 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: 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: 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: 16204

A fine steel and bronze companion set, with slender barley twist shafts and finely cast handle finials.
English, c.1870.

Link to: Antique Firetools.

	Width	Height	Depth
	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	30 7⁄8" 78.5 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 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: 16109

A French ormolu six light chandelier of exceptional quality in the Baroque manner. The ornate central baluster stem is fixed with three applied putto terms and also six elegant branches, with cast foliate decoration and female masks. The stem terminates in a reversed foliate finial.
French, mid 20th century.

Ceiling rose not included.

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	Diameter	Drop
	24" 61 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 15859

A large and grand Renaissance Revival chimneypiece in Walnut. The inverted breakfront overmantel has a large cornice, which is supported by twin Corinthian freestanding columns. These flank the panelled frieze, which is centred by a beautiful panel carved with fantastical putti holding cornucopia, from which mythical birds pluck fruit. This large overmantel sits above the main chimneypiece, which is also a grand affair. The frieze is evenly placed with both triglyphs and biglyphs between finely carved foliate panels in low relief. Fluted and collared columns on large footblocks support the shelf.
English, c.1880.

View our collection of: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 7⁄8" 187.7 cms	96 1⁄4" 244.5 cms	12 11⁄16" 32.2 cms
Internal	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 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: 16154

A rare William IV cast iron register grate. The ornate opening is cast with acanthus scrollwork and frames the rare feature of a cantilever fire basket, which is a mark of great quality.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	depth
	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 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