Stock: 11429

A pair of Victorian recumbent antique terracotta garden lions raised on moulded bases - one base is damaged and they have once been painted and stripped - as found.
English,19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 4816

Two pairs or a set of four Victorian terracotta urns decorated with fruit and flowers raised on square bases. English, late 19th century. Can be sold in pairs.

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	width (base)	height	depth
	17 1⁄2" 44.4 cms	20 3⁄16" 51.4 cms

Stock: 12934

A pair of composition stone rectangular garden plinths.
English 20th century (as found).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14" 35.5 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	14" 35.5 cms

Stock: 14547

A pair of large 18th century Carrara Marble Italian garden sculptures of playful Putti riding and cavorting with Billy Goats, holding aloft bunches of grapes and garlands of vine leaves and standing on rusticated bases mounted on the original plinths decorated with egg and dart cornice tops and moulded bases.
Italian, late 18th century.

Provenance: Purportedly to have been originally in the grounds of the Rushbrooke Hall Estate, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk a moated stately home with a large ornamental garden which was owned for many years by the Jermyn family. In 1938 the estate was taken over by Victor, the 3rd Lord Rothschild (1910-1990) and in 1961 it was decided to demolish and rebuild the house. During the demolition, a fire devastated the building and the moated site and some of the formal gardens are all that remain. The Rothschild family continued in ownership of the estate until it was sold in 2015.

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	width	height	depth
sculpture with plinth	26" 66 cms	58 1⁄4" 148 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
sculpture only	26" 66 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 13919

A large lead garden planter each panel decorated with a geometric design centred by lion masks
English early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms

Stock: 13339

A tall and slender 20th century green painted cast iron three tier fountain in the Coalbrookdale manner, with triple graduated bowls of campana form, the water spouts emanating from the top finial spills into each bowl in turn. The base is guarded by four large swans. English 20th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	46 1⁄8" 117 cms	94 1⁄2" 240 cms

Stock: 13809

A pair of large antique cast iron campana style Victorian garden urns with a linked leaf collar on the tapering bowls supported on stepped socles resting on two tier bases. English, mid 19th century.

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	width	hight
	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms

Stock: 13663

A very large well carved 20th century Carrara Marble growling garden lioness couchant.
English possbly French, mid 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms

Stock: 10851

A large English Baroque marble sundial and baluster pedestal in the Baroque manner. The 18th century base is finely carved in Statuary Marble with egg and dart detail around the top, deep spiral fluting around the baluster form body and acanthus leaf and scrolled decoration carved around the lower section. The whole raised on a circular socle. The sundial itself is 17th century, with a circular equation of time graph on its face.
English, 17th - 18th century.

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	diameter	height
Diameter	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	48 13⁄16" 124 cms

Stock: 14097

A pair of large Victorian terracotta garden urns in the Regency style with fine linked leaf collars around the bowl raised on waisted socles.
Circa 1860, possibly Scottish.

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	diameter	height
	25" 63.5 cms	23" 58.5 cms

Stock: 13535

An antique fire-clay bowl and pedestal column in the Italian Renaissance style with a fluted shaft decorated with candelabrum acanthus. Attributed to the Garnick Fire-clay Company.Circa 1857.

Notes: The Garnick Company known for being the biggest manufacturer of fire-clay articles worldwide, worked for a great number of famous architects and sculptors, Alexander "Greek" Thompson, among others and was represented at the Great Exhibition in 1851. The company stopped by the end of the 19th century after it had run out of clay supplies.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms

Stock: 14082

A somewhat distressed Victorian carved Portland Stone Lion Fountain Head.
English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 11738

A large French statuary marble bust, possibly of Cardinal François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon. Provenance: Château des Guignes, Orléans, France.

French, 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 13323

A tall and beautifully carved Carrara Marble statue of Eiar, Goddess of Springtime and one of the Goddesses of The Four Seasons. She is standing on an octagonal plinth and is holding a tumbling festoon of flowers representing the abundance of Springtime. She may have come from the gardens of an English country estate. As found before restoration. English, mid to late 19th century.

Notes: The Four Seasons were depicted in mythology as the personification of nature in its different seasonal aspects. Theros (Summer), Phthinoporon (Autumn), and Cheimon (Winter) were the other three. They were said to guard the gates of Olympus, promoting the fertility of the earth and both presiding over and directing the stars and constellations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	65 5⁄8" 166.5 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 13068

ECHOS OF EMPIRE.
An enormous and grand Gothic Revival sandstone throne made to commemorate Queen Victoria`s Golden Jubilee of 1887. The pitched gable back with raised and carved foliate mantle enclosing the VR crowned cartouche with laurel leaves and Jubilee banner terminating in mask heads flanking a broad seat and chamfered plinth base.
Scottish late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	72" 183 cms	112 5⁄8" 286 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 13526

A rare Bronze Fountain Group attributed to David Rawnsley (1909- 1977).
Sculptor, Painter, Ceramicist, Film Art Director & Production Designer.

A delightful, unique and beautifully sculpted Fountain of an entwined Mermaid & Merboy resting on rocks by the sea, both are twin tailed. The Merboy holds a large fish from whose mouth a water spout falls into the clam shell beneath. There is another water spout emanating from the abalone shell held above his head. The Mermaid is holding the clam shell in which lies a large starfish. A crab, a lobster and an octopus are climbing the rock beneath and nearby are limpets and coral.

Mermaids & Merboys are legendary figures appearing throughout the centuries in the folklore of many cultures and traditionally could symbolise either danger or good fortune. This pair are of course beneficent. English, circa 1960.

Notes: David Rawnsley was in his own words 'a jack of all trades'. Initially trained as an architect and engineer he entered the film industry in his early twenties as an art director & production designer. Film credits include: 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, They Flew Alone and In Which We Serve. In the 40's and 50's he started up a series of potteries. The first in Paris was followed by the famous Chelsea Pottery in London in 1952 and later by one in the Bahamas and another in Mexico. His sister Una Hanbury (1904 – 1990) was a renowned Washington sculptor of horses and Rawnsley himself became an acknowledged artist and sculptor. His parents had settled the Rawnsley family on the Isle of Capri in the 1920's and in later years he set up a studio there. During a short visit in 1977 he died of a heart attack and he is buried on the Island. One of his last bronze sculptures, that of a young maiden made in 1972, is mounted on his grave.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28" 71 cms	69 1⁄2" 176.5 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms

Stock: 13384

A weathered 20th century Italian style composition stone fountain. A charming child,crouching on a rock above a pool, contemplates a tiny turtle climbing the rocks beside him. A water spout emanating from the mouth of a large snail at his feet spills into a boldly carved scallop shell basin which rests on an ornately carved baluster pedestal. English, 20th century.

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	Diameter	Height
External	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms

Stock: 11022

A large antique terracotta campana urn, possibly by Blashfield, decorated in the Greek Revival manner after Bertel Thorvaldsen and Thomas Hope. Frieze features under the anthemion motif beneath the rim show various figures of flower and fruit maidens, minstrels and an angel typical of Ancient Greek inspiration, the handles are butted by the heads of river deities. English, early 19th century.

Notes: Although not stamped the texture of the clay & the design is very similar to the work produced by J M Blashfield." There was an identical urn sold at a Sotheby's Sale on 21 Sept 1999.

Weight: 110 kg.

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	Diameter	Height	Base W & H
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms

Stock: 13140

One of five carved Portland Stone Plaques removed from the facade of St Thomas' Hospital. It is carved in the shape of a Shield and bears some of the symbols of the Hospitals Crest; a Cross, a Tudor Rose flanked by two Fleur de Lys and
a Spear - the original also bore a Fish on the Cross and a Chough ( associated with Thomas Beckett from whom the Hospital took it's name), in the top right quadrant.

The Hospital was moved from it's 17th century site in Southwark to new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road across the River Thames from The Houses of Parliament where it was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.
Early 20th century. A pair with SNo 13144.
Weight: 276kg.

	Width	Height	Depth
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 12500

A LARGE PATINATED BRONZE FOUNTAIN IN THE BAROQUE MANNER of a Egyptian watercarrier standing in a large crenellated oystershell bowl, supported by four stylised dolphins each spouting water on an ornate circular plinth. Mid 20th century.

Shown with Clover Leaf Fountain Basin SNo 12697 not included.

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	diameter	height
	50" 127 cms	88" 223.5 cms

Stock: 11334

A slender classical three tiered painted cast iron fountain surmounted by a winged cherub and with the foundry mark of the Handyside Foundry, Glasgow on the base stem. Late 19th century.

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	width	height
	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	50" 127 cms

Stock: 11768

A pair of well carved stone Renaissance overdoors each with carved central cartouche depicting Medieval noblemen. Images before restoration.
Northern England, 18th century.

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	width
	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 12047

A Victorian cast iron two tier garden fountain in the Baroque Revival manner. English, circa 1880.
Shown with a Clover Leaf Fountain Basin not included in the price.

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	Width	Height
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	63" 160 cms

Stock: 12002

A 20th century delightfully detailed small terracotta fountain featuring a boy and a girl standing on a a round plinth bedecked with dock leaves and other foliage,sheltering under a rigid patinated copper umbrella from the fountains water which cascades from the spout above the umbrella.
20th century a used replica.

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	width	height	depth
Overall	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms
Base	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 12001

A slender French mid 19th century Cast Iron Garden Fountain in the manner of the Barbezat & Cie's Foundry which in 1870 changed its name to Val d'Osne. The water is delivered from the top centre spout. French, circa 1860.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	63" 160 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 12010

A BAROQUE RELIC
A series of five large carved stone Metope elements in the Baroque Roman Revival manner.
They form a running frieze, the elements all being the same height, depicting several hunting and animal scenes. A wild boar hunt, a lion hunt and youths feeding goats centred by putti heralds blowing horns.The heads of the youthful hunters having being removed which could indicate they date from before the 17th century Commonwealth period of Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans, 1649-1660 when the Roundhead Parliamentry troops frequently defaced human features on statues for their so-called association with idolatry.
English or Welsh, 17-18th century.

Notes: The beheading and other acts of vandalism carried out on figurative carving was a regular practice done in the name of Puritanism at the order of Oliver Cromwell after Englands 17th century short lived Revolution and establishment of a Republic / Commonwealth (1649-1660) and before the restoration of the Stuart monarchy to the throne. See also our sold stock no 2871,
a pair of 17th century carved angels. whose faces were also removed, bought in an attic and stables sale at Hatfield House.

Condition: To be expected in a relic there are missing detail elements, apart from the presumed Cromwellian destruction, which could be reinstated. But part of the charm of these huge carved elements lies in leaving them in this unrestored state.

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	width	height	depth
Overall running length.	400" 1016 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 11961

A small cast iron wall fountain spout in the Baroque manner in the form of a putto's head. English,19th Century.

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	width	height	depth
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 11916

A large bronze three tier fountain in the Italian Baroque manner.The smaller top bowl supported on a fluted, waisted baluster, seated in the larger second tier owl with two children seated either side of a Corinthian fluted classical column supporting a lobed base all over a large serpentine edged, florally decorated main basin of conforming design, all supported on a gadrooned outward tapering base.Late 20th century.

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	width	height
	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	68 7⁄8" 175 cms

Stock: 10045

A pair of cast iron urns, after the Borghese Vase, on stepped plinth bases. Attributed to the Handyside Foundry in Derby, England.These urns are illustrated in the 1874 Handyside catalogue No 3 & 3A.
Mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	15 1⁄2" 39.4 cms	25" 63.5 cms
Internal	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 10774

One of three keystones .
THE FLEET
Sculptor Sir Charles Wheeler. Circa 1957.

Provenance: Originally one of three keystones, representing historical London rivers, The Thames, The Fleet & The Walbrook, & part of a larger group including two statues of St George. This keystone was above the main entrance left hand bronze door of the One New Change building, part the Bank of England Annexe in the City of London

The building erected in the 1950s to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department & demolished in 2007, occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wren's majestic Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral.

The Fleet is one of Londons lost rivers and was once the next largest to the Thames. It flowed south from Hampstead Heath and entered the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge. What is left of the once grand Fleet now flows in pipes buried deep under the streets of the city. Fleet Street..".The street of shame " , so called because of its many hostelries, is named after it.

	width	height	depth
	18 11⁄16" 47.5 cms	35" 89 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 10772

OLD FATHER THAMES Keystone.
Sculptor Sir Charles Wheeler.

Provenance: Originally one of three keystones, representing historical London rivers, The Thames, The Fleet & The Walbrook, & part of a larger group including two statues of St George. This keystone was above the central bronze door of the main entrance of One New Change, part of the Bank of England Annexe in the City of London.

The building erected in the 1950s to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department & demolished in 2007, occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wren's majestic Roman Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral.

' Old Father Thames keeps rolling along, down to the mighty sea'...( Raymond Wallace )..The source of this great river is reputed to be in a field in Gloucestershire from where it begins a 215 mile journey eastwards passing through Oxford, called here by its Latin name of Isis; past Windsor Castle and Hampton Court; through London past the Houses of Parliament and The Tower and on down to Gravesend & the sea. Its strategic position has seen it at the centre of many historical events; it has supported human activity from its source to its mouth for thousands of years; provided water power, food and drink; has been a venue for spectacular entertaiments & acted as a major highway for international trade through the Port of London. Perhaps John Burns, MP for Battersea 1929, best described it as “Liquid History”.

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	width	height	depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	35" 89 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 10766

A large Portland Stone keystone depicting the Lion as on the Scottish Shilling holding a sword and sceptre above the crown. Sculptor David Evans.

Part of a collection of approximately 45 statues and carvings commissioned by the Bank of England to adorn it’s Annexe built in the 1950’s at One New Change in the City of London. They were removed prior to the building being demolished in 2007. This was one of three keystones above the entrance on Watling Street.

Notes: The building was erected to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department and occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west. It was built on a World War II bomb site and was sensitively designed in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wrens majestic Roman Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral.

English, circa 1957.

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	width	height	depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	35" 89 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 10309

A Victorian terracotta garden urn in the Roman Revival Pagan manner. The body with ribbon tied laurel decoration and ram's mask handles, supported on an egg-and-dart decorated socle.
Mid 19th century.

Fluted plinth SNo 10285 is not included.

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	width	height	depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 8119

A composition stone figure of a salamander lying on a rock in the sun.
20th century.
Image before restoration included in the price.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Max	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	55 1⁄8" 140 cms

Stock: 8077

A pair of antique carved stone recumbent lions in the Venetian manner.
Italian, circa 17th century.

Stone and marble lions of this form were often used as supports for columns over doorways and church altars in Italy. A particularly magnificent pair can be seen supporting the grand doorway of Parma Cathedral.

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	width	height	depth
	30" 76.2 cms	18" 45.7 cms	13" 33 cms