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Stock: 15391

A near pair of ornamental statuary marble ionic capitals with scrolled shell cartouche in the Georgian style. Probably once part of the columns on a fireplace surround.
English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Left	11" 28 cms	5 3⁄8" 13.6 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms
Right	11" 28 cms	5 13⁄16" 14.8 cms

Stock: 14965

A pair of Georgian painted chairs in their original paint with fitted squab cushions made from Mallorquin ticking. The seats have been re-caned.
English, circa 1780 (George III).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 7⁄8" 50.5 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 12601

A small, early 20th century figurine composed of pressed steel parts, of a Knight of St John in full armour with a paper label to the base for C Galdies Valletta. Based on the full sized suits of armour in the Grand Master's Palace in the centre of the old walled city of Valletta. Malta, early 20th century.

Notes: The Knights of St John were of the order of the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and were an early Catholic military order. They were based in Jerusalem until 1291, on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522, in Malta from 1530 until 1798 and at Saint Petersburg from 1799 until 1801.

	Width	Height	Depth
	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	4 1⁄4" 11 cms

Stock: 15385

An attractive, arched Rococo style, giltwood wall mirror possibly an overmantel. The frame is surmounted by an ornate shell cartouche upon a bed of flowers and trailing acanthus leaves.
English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 15140

A small cut glass, ormolu late Victorian ceiling light suspended by four chains from a stylised crown fitment. The sixteen bevelled main glass panels are held by a circular, ribbon tied ormolu corona mounted with four cherubic heads from which descend ornate, foliate clasps. French/Belgian circa 1900.

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	Diameter	Drop
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 14795

A small late 20th century Georgian style brass hall lantern. The cylindrical, bevelled glass is held within a brass cage suspended from four shaped arms.and a reverse bell fitment.
English, 20th century.

Identical to SNo 14792,14793 & 14794.

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	Diameter	Drop
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14794

A small late 20th century Georgian style brass hall lantern. The cylindrical, bevelled glass is held within a brass cage suspended from four shaped arms.and a reverse bell fitment.
English, 20th century.

Identical to SNo 14792,14793 14795.

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	Diameter	Drop
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14793

A small late 20th century brass hall lantern in the Georgian manner. The cylindrical, bevelled glass is held within a brass cage suspended from four shaped arms.and a reverse bell fitment. English, 20th century.

Identical to SNo 14792, 14794 & 14795

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	Diameter	Drop
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14792

A small late 20th century brass hall lantern in the Georgian manner. The cylindrical, bevelled glass is held within a brass cage suspended from four shaped arms.and a reverse bell fitment.
English, 20th century.

Identical to SNo 14793, 14794 & 14795.

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	Diameter	Drop
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 11140

A pair of ornamental Statuary marble collars or plinths in the Jacobean style with strapwork and lozenge carving. Probably once part of a pair of chimneypiece columns.
English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms

Stock: 9235

A large four panelled, embossed leather Spanish room screen screen in the Baroque manner. The leather panels are richly embossed with fruit, foliage & scrolls highlighted in gilt & polychrome reminiscent of the Damascene motifs.
Condition commensurate with age and use.
Spanish, 18th century.

The leather panels could be removed to make 8 attractive, matching wall decorations.

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	each panel	height	depth
	26 5⁄8" 67.5 cms	78 3⁄8" 199.2 cms

Stock: 7159

A pair of charming Georgian parcel-gilt female terms or caryatids, mounted above tapering shafts with carved anthemion decoration. Possibly once part of a fireplace or equally they may have been a wall decoration framing a doorway in a salon.
English, circa 1770.

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	Width	Height
	9" 22.9 cms	72" 182.9 cms

Stock: 4037

A large lower part of an ocean clam shell. Clams are the largest living bivalve mollusks and are mostly found in shallow coral reefs in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. Circa 1920.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal

Stock: 14505

A traditional, Victorian copper pouring jug in good condition. The jug tapers down to a wide base. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 1⁄2" 29.1 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	9 11⁄16" 24.6 cms

Stock: 14928

An elegant, patinated brass five branch chandelier in the Baroque manner. The scrolled arms, which support the candle holders, emanate from the bulbous stem which is hung from a ring and foliate fitment.
English, circa 1930.

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	Diameter	Drop
	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	26" 66 cms

Stock: 13065

A pair of similar brass Victorian 'Wee Willie Winkie' candlesticks.The circular trays with decorative cut galleries.
English, late 19h century.

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	Length	height	depth
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	2" 5 cms	6 13⁄16" 17.2 cms

Stock: 12207

A pair of small, Victorian brass and cast iron revolving tazza stands raised on baluster form stems and with spreading, foliate feet.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms

Stock: 7360

A large and very finely made replica Chimneypiece in the Italian Neo Classical manner in Statuary Marble inlaid with Cippolino, Portoro, Sienna, Breccia Colorato and Aegean Bordeaux specimen marbles. The egg and dart moulding beneath a breakfront shelf is above a frieze centred by a carved Statuary marble cartouche inlaid with Cippolino marble flanked by oval Portoro marble endblocks.

Italian late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	98 1⁄2" 250.2 cms	76" 193 cms	11 11⁄16" 29.8 cms
Internal	61" 154.9 cms	50" 127 cms

Stock: 15231

An Edwardian, Arts and Crafts oak fire surround. The crenelated cornice, supported by a pair of turned columns, rests above a recessed frieze and mantle shelf. The frieze is set with five painted panels depicting Medieval York including the ‘bar’ or city walls, streets and gateways; the ruins of St Mary's Abbey and York Minster itself. A Tudor style arch frames the fireplace opening flanked by a pair of simple tapering columns on the jambs. English, circa 1910.

Photos before cleaning and polishing.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	75 5⁄8" 192 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.6 cms
Internal	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms

Stock: 15226

A stained and leaded glass window panel, possibly representing the paternal arms of the Grosvenor Crest, depicting a talbot dog atop a helm set in a field of multiple coloured glass sections held in a later stained pine frame. The quarterings include a crescent and star mark of cadency above the motto Virtus Non Stemma which translates as Valour Not Garland and is the Duke of Westminster's motto at his Eaton Hall Estate. English, 17th century and later.

Provenance: By repute removed from a chapel on a Grosvenor Estate.

Notes: The talbot dog, now extinct, was a type of hunting dog and probably the ancestor of the beagle or bloodhound and is often used in heraldry to represent a good-mannered hunting dog. The cadency marks the status of a younger branch of a family.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 1⁄4" 84.5 cms	49 13⁄16" 126.5 cms	2 11⁄16" 6.8 cms

Stock: 7237

A single Statuary marble ornamental Corinthian capital in the Neoclassical style with carved rosettes and acanthus leaf detail.
English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 11802

A large campana urn in bold purple- veined pavonazzo marble. Italian, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Top	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms
Bottom	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms

Stock: 11376

A fine, late 18th century antique fireplace surround in Statuary marble with Spanish Brocatelle marble fluting and ingrounds. The breakfront shelf rests on a frieze with inlaid Brocatelle marble fluting, which is interspersed by delicately carved rosette paterae. The frieze is flanked by endblocks carved with pillar vases and trailing leaves above tapering fluted jambs raised on stepped footblocks.
English circa 1780.

Known provenance.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	69 1⁄4" 176 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	6" 15.3 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 104.8 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 11330

A pair of small carved walnut lion monopodia terms or columns in the Roman Baroque manner. English, 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 8194

A large, nickel plated cast iron plaque in the Renaissance manner. The central oval medallion, depicting a battle scene is surrounded by four similar, smaller ovals amid warriors, satyrs, grotesques and maiden masks within strapwork borders. Possibly by Thomas Elkington.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 14055

A very large, early 20th century, cast iron fireback modelled on the earliest dated Wealden design of 1641. Cast with the Royalist symbols of a lion passant surrounded by the Scottish Thistle, the English Rose and the French Fleur de Lys. Probably the most familiar of Wealdon firebacks and much reproduced in succeeding centuries.
English circa 1930.

Please note an old crack runs down the left hand side.

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	width	height	depth
	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 6591

A tall carved mahogany glazed bookcase or collectors cabinet in the Robert Adam late Georgian manner. There is a blind fret carved design on the cornice over two full length astragal glazed doors, with Rams heads carved on the lower apron, supported on Adam style carved shell cabrioles over ball and claw carved feet. English, late 19th century.

The interior to be silk lined in a James Hare silk fabric.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	63" 160 cms	86" 218.4 cms	17" 43.2 cms

Stock: 14952

A pair of gilt brass, three branch, Rococo style wall lights. The entwined, acanthus clad scrolling arms, emanate from an ornate backplate and support the leaf wrapped, candle holders. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 11640

An Arts & Crafts embossed copper rectangular plaque in the manner of the Newlyn School, with a galleon in full sail and bearing a monogram SO or OS and set in an oak frame.
English, circa 1910

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	width	height
	19" 48.2 cms	23" 58.5 cms

Stock: 14237

A pair of bronze 19th century Scottish shop signs. The scrolled cartouche shaped signs are centred, on the central bulbous lozenge, by the initials DI representing the Edinburgh based Dunedin Interiors company. Scottish, mid 19th century.

Provenance: Formerly hung in 6 North West Circus Place, Edinburgh and later in Austin Reed on Princess Street.

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	width	height
	13" 33 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 12387

A small bronze vase or urn elaborately decorated in the manner of the Chinese Shang Dynasty.
Mid 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 4270

A fine, large Victorian roundel of a Golden Eagle perched on a rocky crag, carved from solid oak.
English circa 1890.

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	diameter
	27" 68.6 cms

Stock: 15357

A George III, profusely carved giltwood wall mirror in the Rococo style. The broken swan neck pediment is centred by a carved foliate crest. The scrolling, latticed frame is embellished with ornately carved flowers, fruit and acanthus leaves. English, circa 1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	2" 5 cms

Stock: 14838

A large pair of elaborate three branch brass wall lights in the Rococo manner with acanthus clad arms and foliate candle holders.
English, early 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	26" 66 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 15115

A very fine pair of tall French Baroque style brass firedogs. The central columns, surmounted by flambeau urn finials, are flanked by pairs of attached stylised dolphins above winged grotesque masks and raised on sturdy arched feet.

French, late 19th Century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms