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Stock: 15478

A striking geometric Karajar carpet with three central medallions on a red ground, the border comprises a blue ground with nomadic style floral motifs. Iranian, c.1940.

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	Length	Width
	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 15354

A set of steel 19th century fire tools, the knopped handles with a cast lattice decoration and the shovel elegantly pierced.
English, c.1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	2" 5 cms

Stock: 15473

A simple and elegant St Anne marble corbel fireplace. The softly grey hued St Anne marble is gently veined and displayed to great effect on the plain shelf and jambs. The undulating corbels support a broad moulded shelf. Its' simplicity is enhanced by small bands of Belgian black marble above the corbels and footblocks, an unusual detail.

English, c.1870.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	67 7⁄8" 172.5 cms	48" 122 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 15465

An elegant Louis XVI style 19th century fireplace, crisply carved from Carrara marble, with a finely carved central foliate paterae flanked by the split panelled frieze. The paterae endblocks are of the same acanthus form, and are supported by flat, stop fluted jambs, which in turn rest on plain footblocks. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	15" 38 cms
Internal	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms	31 1⁄4" 79.5 cms

Stock: 15418

A large and ornate French 24 branch gilt brass chandelier. This chandelier embodies the Rococo style, its naturalistic form fashioned from entwined leaves and vines festooned with bunches of grapes. French, early 20th century.

	Diameter	Drop
	39" 99 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms

Stock: 15390

A small Statuary marble Regency style lion paw sculpture almost certainly once part of a fireplace. English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 3⁄16" 15.8 cms	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 15464

A very decorative cast iron insert, the hood decorated with a central urn, surrounded by a pattern of vines and flowers. The hand painted original tiles continue the botanical theme, with ripe apples on branches surrounded by a decorative floral pattern. English c, 1890. br>
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	Width	Height	Depth
	36" 91.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 15336

A most attractive Louis XVI style antique fire surround in rare Breche Violette Marble with fine violet, rose, blue and gold veining on a white background. The breakfront shelf, with a moulded edge, rests above a wide fluted frieze flanked by fluted endblocks above stop fluted jambs raised on stepped footblocks. Similar to but slightly larger than chimneypiece SNo 15360.
French, late 19th century.

Notes: Breche Violette Marble is quarried near the town of Serravezza, close to the Carrara region in Italy. It is often found in grand Italian churches and was used to create the columns in the galleries of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄4" 145.5 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms
Internal	39 5⁄8" 100.6 cms	31 3⁄8" 79.7 cms

Stock: 14048

A pair of early 20th century, textured glass painted windows in rectangular leaded metal frames, decorated with naturalistic ribboned garlands of roses and foliage to the upper section above flamboyant sprays of flowers arranged within twin handled urns. French, circa 1910.

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	width	height	depth
	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	61" 155 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 14738

A rare and monumental cast iron Coalbrookdale antique fire grate identical to fire grate SNo 14374. The elaborately scrolled backplate featues a Bagot Goat jumping a fence. The substantial basket, with a strapwork apron centred by a lion mask, is supported by a pair of large and powerful panther head standards.

Provenance: The registration mark 65 The Coalbrookdale Company registered September 6th 1841 number 814 can clearly be seen on the back.
English, early to mid 19th century.

Notes: The Bagot goat is believed to be Britain's oldest breed of goat and has lived semi-wild at Blithfield Hall in Staffordshire for over six hundred years.The Coalbrookdale Company, a foundry in Shropshire established in 1709, is probably most famous for building the world's first cast iron bridge erected and opened at Ironbridge in 1780, but it was also noted for its decorative ironwork an example of which is a set of gates opening into London's Hyde Park. The blast furnaces were closed down around 1820 but the foundries remained in use.

Please note that the back plate was once broken the damage can be seen under the goat. It has been strapped on the back, so the grate is still functional.

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	width	height	depth
	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 15247

A Thomas Elsley, polished steel and cast iron Georgian style fie basket. The arched fireback centred by an urn draped with bellflowers above a four barred curved grate, with etched shoulders, is framed by beading and surmounted by a pair of lidded urn finials above a pierced and etched apron. The twin tapering standards are etched and beaded and surmounted by a larger pair of lidded urn finials.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 15219

An iron and brass fire grate in the French Regence style with a turned two bar basket, above a brass vitruvian apron and surmounted by a pair of flambeau finials. The rectangular backplate depicts a procession of playful cherubs one of which appears to be riding a goat. The grate is supported to the front by a pair of ornate Louis XIV style andirons surmounted by further by flambeau finials.
Probably French, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 15462

A very pretty late Georgian brass and iron fire basket with an elegant silhouette. The high backplate sits behind the three barred grate surmounted by a pair of brass urn finials above a delicately cut apron supported by a pair of column standards also surmounted by a pair of brass finials. English, early 19th century. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	29 13⁄16" 75.8 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms

Stock: 15456

A very fine mahogany longcase clock, with an eight day movement by John Wyld of Nottingham. The fine silver dial is centred by a painted scene of a wooded landscape and this frames a date aperture. The lunette above is adorned with not only a painted moondial, but with opposing hemispheres. The dial is framed by very fine brass cherub spandrels, and mounted with three pierced hands.
The hood of the clock has a swan necked pediment with trompe l'oeil marquetry and a brass finial, which is echoes in the pair of fluted corinthian columns with brass capitals.

Inside the figured case is a four pillar movement which will be fully serviced on purchase.

Notes on the maker: John Wyld was an important and very competent maker who was born in Codnor, Derbyshire in 1710, son of another John Wyld (1678-1760) by Rebecca, sister of the notable Codnor clockmaker James Woolley (1695-1785), to whom Wyld was apprenticed. He set up at Codnor around 1732 and also rented a workshop in Chapel Bar in Nottingham from a Mr. Lupton shortly afterwards. He married in 1740 and died in 1773 leaving John, his successor at Nottingham, Joseph and three daughters.

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	width	height	depth
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	96 7⁄8" 246 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 15453

A lovely pair of Booth’s Silicone China Scale Blue table lamps. Hand painted in the manner of 18th century Worcester, these are decorated with a profusion of gilt, on a cobalt blue fishscale ground. The cartouches are painted with exotic birds - presumably pheasants - and exquisite flowers. Simple Empire style lamp shades would suit these lamps very well.
English, circa 1900.

Research: Booths' most highly prized pattern is Scale Blue, an early C20th copy of the famous Worcester blue glaze featuring vignettes with exquisitely hand-painted birds and flowers. Now extremely hard to come by, it is much sought after by Booths connoisseurs.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 15407

A Pompadour chimneypiece in a Campan Vert marble. The serpentine panelled frieze with flanked by rectangular endblocks above the angled, panelled and fielded jambs.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms

Stock: 14956

A pair of large, imposing brass three branch Neoclassical wall lights. The ornate central stems, surmounted by acanthus clad vases filled with roses, and from which the scrolled arms emanate, terminate in reverse acanthus clusters. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 15349

A Neoclassical brass and cast iron fire grate in the manner of Thomas Elsley. The serpentine front with pierced and engraved decoration and urn finials, raised on tapering legs. English, circa1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	31 11⁄16" 80.5 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Back panel	19" 48.3 cms

Stock: 15460

A George III 30 hour oak longcase clock with an engraved silvered dial and Roman numerals, framed by gilt spandrels to the corners. To the centre of the dial is a date aperture, and also an arched moondial with hand painted decoration. This elegant dial sits within a columned hood of an elegantly simple design. It has a 4 pillar movement. This clock will be serviced upon purchase.

Signed: Samuel Butterworth of Rochdale.
English, c.1770.

	width	height	depth
	79" 200.6 cms	23" 58.4 cms

Stock: 15434

A very large, hand painted maiolica urn in the form of a classical wine krater. The exquisite painted decoration includes two central cartouches, one depicting the Judgement of Paris, the other Venus and Cupid with attendants. This is set against a blue ground decorated with foliate scrolls, masks and shells. The handles are fashioned into winged, leopard like beasts.

It would make a fantastic centrepiece on a table and is designed to be seen in the round.

Italian, late 19th, early 20th century. Unmarked.

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	width	height	depth
	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Base	11 3⁄8" 29 cms

Stock: 15442

An elegant Regency white Statuary and Spanish Brocatelle marble fireplace. The wide moulded shelf rests above a plain frieze set with a Brocatelle panel, oval paterae on the endblocks and further panels of Bracatelle are set into the jambs beneath acanthus capitals. The opening too is framed wth Brocatelle marble.
English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	76 1⁄8" 193.3 cms	54 3⁄8" 138.1 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms
Internal	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms

Stock: 15437

A French Carrara marble Louis XV style Rococo fireplace surround. The serpentine breakfront shelf rests above a fielded freeze centred by a large foliate cartouche echoed on the endblocks which sit above angled, panelled jambs supported on sturdy footblocks.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	42 3⁄8" 107.6 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Internal	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms

Stock: 15452

A fine example of an early twentieth century time recorder clock in an oak case. The bevelled glass panel bears the words 'Manufactured By The National Time Recorder Co. (Patentees) London SE.' The clock face with Roman numerals is set within a carved wood frame and bears the name British Time Recorder Co. Ltd. 149 Farringdon Road, London EC. beneath which is a small metal plaque stating 'Overhauled by British Time Recorder Co. Ltd, 149 Farringdon Road, London EC1 Phone. Terminus 1451 and the Reg No 8129'. This Time Recorder is in full working order.
English, circa 1912.

Notes: Time Recorders like this one would have been used to record the times workers came in and out of their place of work. The National Time Recorder Co. Ltd (incorporated in 1917, company number 146424, though possibly founded around 10 years earlier in 1907) was one of the two largest UK manufacturers of time recorders in the UK. The head office and factory was originally based in Blackfriars London, and moved to the Lagoon Works in St Mary Cray (Orpington) Kent in 1951, on the site of the Blue Lagoon swimming pool which had been damaged during the war. Other branches were established in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield. .

	Width	Height	Depth
	15 7⁄8" 40.3 cms	47" 119.5 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 15448

A very smart polished steel Georgian register grate, with three bosses to the top within in bead edged panels, a finial mounted three barred grate and a pierced apron. English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	33 1⁄4" 84.5 cms

Stock: 15440

A Victorian black slate fireplace with corbels beneath a wide shelf. An abundant festoon of painted summer flowers adorns the frieze and more trail down each jamb. As with fireplace SNo 15441 the symbolism of flowers was a popular theme in Victorian Britain, with flowers adopted as symbols across the decorative arts. The art of floriography as it was called, was used to convey messages through the language of flowers.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 7⁄8" 157.3 cms	44 7⁄8" 114.1 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms	35 5⁄8" 90.5 cms

Stock: 15449

A mid Victorian cast iron arched register grate, with an ornate backplate, a two barred bow fronted grate and fine foliate detail around the opening. English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	41 1⁄8" 104.5 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms

Stock: 15436

A very fine and rare George III bronze register grate finely engraved with neoclassical motifs. Beneath the three barred serpentine grate is an elegant engraved apron of the same serpentine form.
Irish, circa 1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Front	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms
Back	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 15428

A charming, Louis XVI style, grey marble and ormolu table lamp, raised on a shaped base and with a pair of bold ormolu satyr masks, with large sweeping horns, mounted on the shoulders. French, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Lamp and Shade	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	31 11⁄16" 80.5 cms	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms
Lamp only	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 14211

A large and ornate Louis XV style giltwood and gesso over mantel mirror, with its original mercury glass plate. It is exhuberantly and luxuriously carved throughout with abundant swags, garlands and rocaille detail and there are a pair of small cooing birds framed beneath the central arched cresting.

French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	83 1⁄8" 211 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 15333

A Louis XV Rococo chimneypiece in delightful Breche d'Alep marble. The shaped moulded shelf rests above a scrolled, panelled frieze centred by a foliate cartouche echoed on the endblocks. The tapering, angled and panelled console jambs are supported on curved footblocks. French, early 19th century.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 15243

Breche d'Alep marble was first quarried in 1712 in Tholonet in Bouches-du-Rhône. It is formed of large rounded fragments of browns, greys, reds or blacks usually on a yellow bed and was much used in the making of furniture and fireplaces during the 18th & 19th centuries.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms
Internal	45 1⁄4" 115 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 15121

A 19th century Rococo style bronze mounted cast iron griffin fire basket. The scroll edged backplate, with a central medallion and leafy fronds, rests behind the bow fronted grate which is supported by a pair of large, bronze monopodial griffin with splayed claw feet. Each griffin is impressed on the back with the registration number 'R N 116834'. English, circa 1870.

Similar to brass mounted firegrate SNo 15515.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Back width	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 10413

A late William IV mahogany armchair with turned spindle uprights to the back, and upholstered cushion and armrests. Photos before restoration.
English, circa 1835.

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	width	height	depth
	26" 66 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms

Stock: 4196

A pair of small decorative, Statuary marble Regency carved ionic capitals with their original patina. a/f English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 28 cms	10" 25.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms

Stock: 15178

An elegant Louis XVI style fireplace surround, finely carved in Arabascato marble. The fluted frieze, beneath the moulded shelf, with a central floral garland panel is flanked by round rosette paterae on the endblocks. The fluted volute jambs topped by tumbling floral festoons and scrolled feet supported on sturdy footblocks. French, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄4" 181 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.4 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal	50 13⁄16" 129 cms	36 7⁄8" 93.8 cms

Stock: 9454

A smart 20th century iron and brass firebasket in the Baroque style of Queen Anne with tall turned finials, a Puginesque apron and tapering legs.
English, late 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	30 5⁄8" 77.6 cms	11 1⁄2" 29.2 cms