Antique Panelling and Overmantels from Westland London

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: 15961

A 19th century relief copper electrotype plaque depicting a Coronation, with a Latin inscription from Luke 6:27-36 that translates as "Love your enemies and do good to those who hate you" in original moulded oak frame.
English, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	15" 38 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 14577

A carved, armorial panel depicting a triumphant, seated Boudica styled figure wearing a flowing robe and plumed hat, flourishing a staff bearing a Spanish helmet; and a lion rampant brandishing a sword and arrows. The central arched panel is framed within decorative gadrooned and foliate borders and is surmounted by a pair of stylised dolphins between three rosette medallions. It bears the words 'Oro Patria' which translate as 'gold' and 'homeland'.

The panel relates to the Netherlands, Eighty Years War of Independence(1568–1648) a revolt of Seventeen Provinces of what are today the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, against Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands.

The arched rectangular central panel and pictorial, patriotic scene is typical of Dutch fireback designs. An image of a 17th century Dutch fireback with a similar depiction can be seen in the last image below.

19th century, probably Dutch.

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		Height
		29 7⁄8" 76 cms

Stock: 13433

A finely carved, silvered pine and gesso headboard or overdoor panel. in the English Regency manner. Shaped in the stele style with scrolling shoulders and surmounted by a pierced akroter crest. It is centred by a floral and foliate decorated oval set amid rosette and leaf spay motifs. English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	66 7⁄8" 170 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 13877

A pair of small Victorian oak panels in the Renaissance style with water nymphs and birds hidden amidst profusely carved foliage above panels of lotus flowers floating on a lake.
English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	0 7⁄8" 2.3 cms

Stock: 12162

A front section of a 19th century Lit Clos possibly of the Beren region in France, typically inlaid with ebonised and boxwood lozenge and compass motifs, set with brass studs and spindle turned roundels and an arched niche and small podium to the centre.
French, 19th century.

A Lit Clos, or Box Bed, is a traditional piece of furniture usually found in homes with only one room. It would be ,like sleeping in a cupboard but it did allow some privacy and was warm in winter.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71" 180.3 cms	61" 155 cms	8" 20.4 cms
Internal	35" 89 cms	39" 99 cms

Stock: 14790

A 42 foot run of Walnut marquetry dado panelling consisting of arched panels, pilasters and two open bookcases. The ornately framed arched panels, inlaid with rosewood, pear, satinwood, burr elm and stained sycamore woods, depict Elysian scenes of nymphs reclining on boughs, stylised galleons, urns and cornucopia of fruits amid trailing floral and foliate frondrils and sprigs.
Provenance: Removed from 24 Portland Place, London W1B.
English, circa 1880.

Photos before restoration

	run	height
	503 7⁄8" 1280 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms

Stock: 11363

An attractive demi lune, inlaid wood marquetry panel depicting eighteenth century figures in silhouette taking tea al fresco in a Fete Champetre landscape. This type of panel would have been made for use in the trade to illustrate different woods for the perusal of clients. English, circa 1930.

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	width	height	depth
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.5 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 14432

A complete carved oak wainscot panelled room recently removed from a large house in Lille in northern France close to the border with Belgium.

The panelled suite includes a large Belgian Black Marble fireplace, a pair of full height doors and a set of six original late 19th century machine woven tapestries. The two sets of original windows, shown in situ in the images below, are not available but the panelled sections surrounding the window openings are and remain part of the whole suite. The doors and the window openings are surmounted by decorative carved friezes with highly ornate pediments flanked by tall pilasters. Further pilasters flank the overmantel mirror of original mercury plate above the fireplace and the mirror is surmounted by it's own richly carved pediment. The six late 19th century machine woven tapestries depicting various medieval rural pass-times are set above each section of panelling.

The large and imposing Belgian Baroque style fireplace surround has a deeply moulded shelf above a panelled frieze with a central foliate panel flanked by swagged corbels, repeated on the side returns, above descending bellflower detail on the jambs over bold moulded footblocks. The opening is framed by inner slips with carved lambs tongue moulding and floral spandrels.
French, circa 1880.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 14446 not included in the price and fireback panels SNo 14125 now sold.

Room Measurements:
Width 19ft ( 5m 58cms)
Depth 18ft 4ins (5m 80cms)
Height 12ft 4ins (3m 73cms)

Fireplace dimensions.
Width 78 3/8" (119cms)
Height 47 1/4" (120cms)
Depth 15" (38cm) + 9 1/2" (24cms) return around chimney
Internal width 39 3/4" (101cms)
Internal height 27 3/4" (70,5 cms)

Notes: Wainscot panelling is found lining the interior walls of rooms and hallways and usually forms the lower part of the walls.

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Stock: 14200

A magnificent and enormous pair of huge bronze Edwardian Baroque panels each in two parts made for Gillows of Lancaster, the famous furniture and furnishings company founded in 1730 who later to became Waring and Gillow. They would have been part of a grand display stand at one of the Great International Exhibitions that occurred from the mid 19th century. Gillows was one of a number of first class manufacturing companies to provide work of the highest calibre for these exhibitions. It is not clear exactly which event these panels, some parts of which are missing, would have been made for but it is likely to have been either the London Exhibition of 1908 or the one in Ghent in 1913. The panels bear medallion copies of the medals that Gillows were awarded at various exhibitions from London,1851 to Paris,1900 and Brussels.

Extraordinarily the panels were only discovered in 2015 stored away in a dock-side warehouse in Liverpool the home of Warings. It is possible that they had remained there undisturbed and forgotten for all those years from the time they were dismantled at the exhibition and transported back to Liverpool.
English, 1903 - 1914

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	approx width	approx height
	26" 66 cms	114" 289.6 cms

Stock: 11284

A large and rare, highly ornate antique oak overmantel reminiscent of the style of the French designer Daniel Marot(1661–1752). The top with egg and dart moulding, carved acanthus scrolls and pendant drops above a quatrefoil opening framed by acanthus carved bolection moulding reserved on a diaper ground and flanked by scroll supports with heavy acanthus carving above a base section with a scrolling cartouche and carved strapwork and draperies. Photos before restoration and in it's original state with some carved elements missing.
English mid 19th century.
Provenance: By repute originally removed from Alnwick Castle in the late 20th century and erected as an overmantel in a house in Alnwick.

Notes: In the second half of the 18th century Robert Adam carried out many alterations to Alnwick Castle. The interiors were largely in a Strawberry Hill Gothic style and not at all typical of his work, which was usually neoclassical in design. However in the 19th century Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland replaced much of the interiors with less ostentatious architecture designed by Anthony Salvin. According to the official website a large amount of Adam's work survives, but little or none of it remains in the principal rooms shown to the public, which were redecorated in an opulent Italianate style in the Victorian era by Luigi Canina.

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	width	height	depth
external	78 11⁄16" 200 cms	82 11⁄16" 210 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Inside mirror	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms

Stock: 11691

A large and highly detailed Jacobean style carved oak antique overmantel. The frieze, set with a pair of strapwork panels, is centred by a grotesque mask and flanked by two finely carved seraphim. Beneath this is a three sectioned panel with a large central shield set with twelve segmented heraldic devices. This is flanked by a pair of floral motif panels above a further pair of panels carved with the Star of David, each section is interspersed with carved effigies of pilaster kings. English,19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	66 1⁄2" 169 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms

Stock: 13489

A very large antique oak overmantel in the Jacobean manner with six robed pilaster figures framing five arched panels, each carved in the typical Jacobean strapwork style, above which are six grotesque masks beneath an anthemion carved pediment. French 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	88" 223.5 cms	48" 122 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 9779

A rare and very fine James I oak overmantel. This Jacobean piece has a reeded frieze, leaf carved to the centre and corners, over three arched arcaded panels. Each panel framed between four alternating carved figural caryatids and set with inlaid stylised tulips beautifully excuted in bog oak and fruitwood.
English mid 17th century.

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	width	height	depth
	60" 152.5 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 9828

An antique Victorian carved oak Gothic Revival four panelled overmantel with shield and medallion motifs beneath a cresting ridge. English mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 4630

A suite of antique Louis XV oak panelling consisting of:
14 carved pilasters:
4 carved panels:
7 raised and fielded panels:
and a quantity of cornices and other panels.
Average height: 106". English, 19th century.

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