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Stock: 16660

A fine gilt gesso 19th century mirror in the manner of William Kent. The rectangular mirrored plate in enclosed by a bead and reel moulded slip, and the frame is embossed with a scrolling foliate design and a diamond pattern, with stippling to the lower portion of the frame. The mirror is topped with a broken pediment, centred by a central cartouche.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24 1⁄4" 61.7 cms	49 3⁄8" 125.5 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 16688

A 19th century hand painted Chinese Temple Jar later converted to a table lamp. This lidded jar has a floral decoration and is highlighted in gold. It is mounted on a later rosewood stand.

Chinese, 19th century.

We have a smaller lamp of the same design, see stock no. 16650.

View our collection of: Antique candelabras, candlesticks and lamps

	Diameter	Height
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 16282

A very fun set of French bayonet fire tools with Gras Bayonet handles, the shafts of which incorporate the original blades.

French, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	27" 68.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16671

A fine 18th century giltwood Rococo wall mirror. The mirror frame is confidently and finely carved, with c-scrolls, acanthine flourishes and trailing flowers, typical motifs of the Rococo style. The gilding is lovely, and beautifully burnished to give the gold a soft glow.

English, c.1770.
Later mirror plate.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16652

A 19th century French giltwood overmantel mirror with a Rococo foliate surmount above a cushion moulded, ogee frame. This encloses the crisp bevelled glass. A very elegant mirror.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms

Stock: 16618

A fine Louis-Philippe overmantel gilt gesso mirror. The surmount is decorated with a flaming torch, a quiver of arrows and a laurel wreath, and is mounted on an elegant frame, with a slightly distressed gilded finish showing traces of the red bole underneath. The frame is further decorated with a Greek key pattern embossed on the surface.
French, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height
	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	55 7⁄8" 142 cms

Stock: 16694

A fine and large early polychrome Delft covered vase in the Oriental taste. Decorated with panels depicting birds perching within flowering chrysanthemum branches, this vase is topped with the most charming of covers, complete with a cat finial!
It is rare to have a fine Delft vase of this scale and date.

Dutch, c.1700, the underside with makers' mark for DE GRIEKSCHE A.

Photographed before restoration.

Notes: In 1658, Wouter van Eenhoorn opened his pottery in the former brewery known as the 'De Griex A' (The Greek A) His company was soon supplying an international market with contacts in London, Hamburg, Stockholm and in 1674 Rouen. In 1678, his son took over the business, and the firm started supplying the Royal House of Orange. Successive generations expanded the business, and they supplied the British monarchs William and Mary as well as their wealthy courtiers. At this time, their pottery was signed AK, which we see on this vase. The factory closed in the early 19th century.

Awaiting further research.

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	Diameter	Height
	11" 28 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 16697

An exceptional giltwood Venetian wall mirror. The fine frame has strapwork cresting, pierced sides and apron, the whole carved with rocaille, c-scrolls and floral flourishes, enclosing the mirror plate, which is surmounted by a fine cartouche also with mirror plate to the crest.

Venice, c.1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	65 3⁄8" 166 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16540

An exceptionally fine 19th century French brass fender, Regence in style. Adorned with opposing griffins, whose rings hold a length of brass chain whilst they sit atop the beautifully cast chenet bar, this fender is wonderfully grand.

French, early 19th century.

Please note, the width can be reduced by bringing the chenet closer together.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	46 11⁄16" 118.5 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 16634

A charming set of four ornithological engravings by Francois Nicolas Martinet (French 1731-1800), titled the,"Grand Pie-grieche verdatre, de Madagascar", "La Petite Hirondelle de Mer", "Troupiale male du Senegal" and "Pie-grieche jaune de Cayenne", in original hand-colour. Small ebonised frames.

French, c.1770.

Notes: These engravings were taken from Comte de Buffon's superb work, the Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, published in Paris from 1770 to 1786. This is one of the most important ornithological publications of the 18th century, Darwin being a great admirer.

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

	Width	Height	Depth
	8 7⁄8" 22.6 cms	10 5⁄8" 26.9 cms	0 1⁄2" 1.3 cms

Stock: 16446

A fine 18th century fire basket. The ornately fireback is cast with cupid astride an eagle with a decorative border, and dated 17--. This is mounted on a three barred grate and a polished bar front, with finely engraved spandrels and urnular finials over a pierced and engraved scrolling apron. This is supported on slender, tapered legs.

English, mid 18th century. View our collection of: Antique fire grates and log baskets.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Back width	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 16374

A charming Victorian fire tool stand in brass. The perfect fireside accompaniment for a set of tools, keeping the hearth tidy!

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 6622

A rare fireplace insert by Thomas Jeckyll for Barnard Bishop and Barnard. Epitomising the Aesthetic movement style, the insert is mounted with a cast brass panel decorated with Jeckyll's signature use of Japanese mons, but the most striking decoration is of course the handpainted tiles on a burnt orange ground, decorated with birds of paradise perching on stylised branches. A rare survival of extraordinary beauty.

English, circa 1870. 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 Jeckyll. 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.

View our collection of: Antique Fire grates and Register grates.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	8" 20.3 cms
Internal	18 3⁄8" 46.7 cms	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms

Stock: 16650

A 19th century hand painted Chinese Temple Jar later converted to a table lamp. This lidded jar has a floral decoration and is highlighted in gold. It is mounted on a later rosewood stand.

Chinese, 19th century.

We have a larger lamp of the same design, see stock no. 16688.

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	Diameter	Height
	7 7⁄8" 20 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 16480

A fine Louis XVI chimneypiece in a beautiful breche d'Aleppe marble. Simple in form, this fireplace has a panelled frieze centred by an integral paterae tablet, which is echoed on the endblocks, which in turn are mounted over panelled jambs.

French, late 19th century.

Outside to outside footblock 150.4cm

	Width	Height	Depth
External	60 1⁄8" 152.7 cms	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103.2 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms

Stock: 16644

A beautiful French Empire period fireplace in an unusual, deep breccia marble. The marble has a deep red hue and incorporates grey brown and even yellow tones, with some sparse white veining. The moulded shelf sits over the plain frieze, which is supported on corbels over flat jambs.
A fireplace that showcases the marble with its simplicity of design.

French, early 19th century.

Outside footblock to outside footblock measurement: 151.5cm

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

	Width	Height	Depth
External	62" 157.5 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms
Internal	45" 114.4 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms

Stock: 16467

A fine antique fire tool stand in brass, with a fine barleytwist shaft and an ornate base. Perfect when paired with a set of our brass fire tools.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 16591

A beautiful 19th century garlic neck Delft vase lamp. This beautiful lamp is painted in the typically Dutch style in cobalt blue, with smaller details picked out in Manganese. The central scene is a landscape dotted with windmills.

Dutch, c.1880.

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	Diameter	Height
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 16428

A pair of charming Delft tin-glazed vases hand painted with pastoral scenes to the body of the vases, and surrounded by scrolling foliate decoration. On the back is a simpler floral design. The vase covers are mounted by lions, reminiscent of the foo dogs seen on Chinese pottery.

Delft, late 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	17 5⁄8" 44.7 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 16532

A wonderful set of Rococo style fire tools in brass. Topped with rocaille foliate handles, the slender shafts terminate in scrolling foliate tongs, and a lovely repoussé shovel.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 16103

A pair of fine Victorian buff terracotta urns, each with a flared rim and semi-gadrooned body, raised on a moulded pedestal and square base.

English, c.1890.

Would be fabulous paired with our selection of pedestals.

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	Diameter	Height
	26" 66 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 16600

An elegant neoclassical chimneypiece in pine. The inverted breakfronted shelf is carved with egg and dart and rests over a frieze which is profusely carved with scrolling acanthus and flowers. The jambs are decorated with strung flowers and fruit, very much in the manner of Grinling Gibbons.

English, c.1870.

View our collection of: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 11⁄16" 177 cms	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms
Internal	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms

Stock: 16278

A fine set of Victorian Gothic Revival brass fire tools. The faceted handles are echoed in the zig zag pattern on the shafts of the tools. The shovel is beautifully engraved with a lily of the valley design.

English, c.1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 1⁄2" 11.5 cms	27" 68.5 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 16603

An Aesthetic Movement octagonal occasional table with an ebonised finish and a Ebony, Thuya and marquetry veneered top, raised on turned legs united by a crossover stretcher.

English, c.1870 .

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	Diameter	Height
	22" 56 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms

Stock: 16543

A wonderful fruitwood Sorrento ware centre table inlaid with fine marquetry and parquetry. The tabletop is beautifully inlaid with a central St George and the Dragon scene, from which radiates beautiful bands of parquetry, in geometric zig zag patterns and simpler bands of inlay. This is echoed on the turned stem and tripod feet.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms

Stock: 16052

A fine set of brass fire tools of an elegant design, with urnular handles. The shover has a pierced Prince of Wales fleur de lys design.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	26" 66 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 15970

A set of steel Regency fire tools, with turned baluster handles and a pierced shovel.

English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 1⁄2" 11.5 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16594

A pair of Georgian brass andirons or fire dogs in the manner of Thomas Hope, modelled as robed maidens holding armfuls of fruit, perhaps as temple offerings. They stand on plinths, very much after the antique.

English, c.1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 11⁄16" 12 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16405

A set of three elegant steel fire tools with simply turned handles and an outswept shovel.

English, c.1770.

View our collection of: Antique Firetools.

	Width	Height	Depth
	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	3 1⁄2" 9 cms

Stock: 16595

A very unusual set of fire tools of excellent quality. Very much in the manner of Christopher Dresser, these fire tools have shepherd's crook handles, and turned and twisted stems, the shovel with a pierced decoration. There is very fine engraved decoration to the handles and at the ends of the shafts.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 11⁄16" 12 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16445

A very fine George II fender in brass, of a very useful size. The serpentine fender has a pierced and crisply engraved design of foliate scrollwork, centred by a neoclassical urn and two hounds. The whole is raised on lion paw feet.

English, c.1760

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	Width	Height	Depth
	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 14883

A starkly elegant Regency chimneypiece in black Kilkenny marble. The plain shelf rests over a frieze that is simply decorated with a tablet carved with an ovoid design. This motif is echoed in the endblocks which rest on reeded jambs.

Scottish, c.1810.

Notes: Kilkenny marble is a black, carboniferous limestone laced with ancient fossils which has been quarried in Ireland for centuries.

View our collection of: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 5⁄8" 164 cms	50" 127 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms
Internal	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.7 cms

Stock: 16283

A fine set of three fire tools in steel, topped with Rococo brass handles.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 16106

A set of unusual and large wrought iron fire tools, with matching tool rests, very much in the Aesthetic Movement Style. The tools are finished with brass rings to the finials, and the tool rests have turned brass knobs.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Firetools	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	2" 5 cms
Rests	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 6609

A pair of reproduction Georgian chimneypieces in white marble with Azul Valverde Greek key inlay. Beautifully carved, these fireplaces have thick moulded shelves with acanthus leaf and dart carved in low relief, over friezes inlaid with a Greek key design. This is flanked by very slender Adam style corbels, over slender jambs.

20th century.

Outer footblock to footblock width 55 1/2" 141cms

View our collection of: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. George IV fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 7⁄8" 162.3 cms	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	7" 17.8 cms
Internal	40" 101.5 cms	40" 101.5 cms