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Stock: 15279

A very beautiful Louis XVI style Pavonazzo Marble chimneypiece. The finely carved frieze, of interlocking floral roundels beneath the moulded stepped shelf, is flanked by floral endblocks above panelled volute jambs. Each jamb is topped with tumbling carved acanthus leaf detail and rests on sturdy footblocks. French, late 19th century..

Notes: Pavonazzo Marble is one of the many varieties of white Carrara marble and is valued for its fine black, grey, violet and honey veining. The name derives from the Italian word for peacock (pavone) and it is also referred to as Pavonazzetto. It has been used by the Romans since around 43 BC when quarrying began at Docimium and can be seen in the House of Augustus, as well as in the Temple of Mars and many of the grand Roman villas.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	58 7⁄8" 149.5 cms	47 1⁄8" 119.7 cms	13 7⁄8" 35.2 cms
Internal	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	36 1⁄2" 92.7 cms

Stock: 15166

A Louis XV cast iron fireplace insert with ornate floral, strapwork ornamentation on a fleur de lys cross hatched field. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 13⁄16" 98.5 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	4 1⁄8" 10.5 cms
Internal	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 7871

An impressive and large Belgian Black Marble.Louis XV Rococo fireplace mantel. The richly carved serpentine frieze is centred by a dramatic, scrolled floral cartouche, flanked by panelled spandrels and generous 'C' scrolled endblocks above scrolled angled, acanthus clad jambs. French, circa 1850

(photos before restoration and more to follow).

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	width	height	depth
external	65 1⁄2" 166.4 cms	47" 119.4 cms	13 1⁄2" 34.3 cms
internal	45" 114.3 cms	37 1⁄2" 95.2 cms

Stock: 4922

A pair of small, carved oak Jacobean heads of a noble man and woman probably once the figure heads on a pair of chimneypiece caryatids. Some wear and splits in the wood commensurate with age - a/f.
English, late 17th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄8" 13 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 15298

A large and beautiful antique giltwood sunburst centred by a carved mask, mounted on a trompe l'oeil roundel, of the Greek God Apollo as a personification of the Sun. Radiating out from the mask are twenty two sun rays linked to a giltwood framed circle of further trompe l'oeil set with four giltwood bosses. It is likely to have once been a ceiling adornment in a grand Italian palazzo.
Italian, 18th century or earlier.

Photos before restoration.

Notes: Apollo was a Greek Roman deity and one of the Twelve Olympians. Recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth, healing, the Sun and light, poetry and prophecy he was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

Link to: Antique sculptures, carvings, bronzes, plaques and tablets one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.[1]

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	Diameter	Depth
	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 15023

A Louis XVI style cast iron Victorian fireplace insert with acanthus leaves and floral detail with the cross hatching. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	35" 89 cms	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms
Internal	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 8608

A rather fine and very large Georgian style steel and brass fire basket in the manner of Robert Adam. The arched backplate, with a central sunburst, rests behind a three bar, bow fronted grate cradled on either side by finely engraved shoulders within a beaded edging and surmounted by a pair of small engraved urn finials. The serpentine apron, with etched, linked lozenges sweeps around to a pair of tapering engraved standards surmounted by a pair of large urn finials.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	37 5⁄8" 95.5 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 15383

A tall, highly ornate gilt brass and mesh Rococo style antique fire screen. The central panel embellished with an applied putti on a swing. The scrolling frame is surmounted by a foliate handle and is supported by two pairs on acanthus clad feet.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	23 3⁄8" 59.5 cms	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 14356

A fine Statuary Marble Victorian chimneypiece with grey/green Verde Antico Marble inlay very much in the George III manner. The wide moulded shelf, with an underlay of dentil detail, rests above an inlaid Greek Key frieze with a central tablet of an urn surmounted by a pair of mythical styled sphinx. The rosette paterae on the end blocks are set above inlaid fluted pilasters fronting the jambs. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 11⁄16" 182 cms	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms
Internal	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	42 7⁄8" 109 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: 15258

A beautiful and very large Persian Kashan carpet. The central shaped panel with interlacing scrolled foliage and stylised flower heads woven in softly hued pale and midnight blues, magenta and ochre on an ivory ground. There are seven bands around the border of various repeating stylised flowers and motifs. Wool on a Cotton Base.
Persian, mid/late 20th century.

Kashan carpets are hand knotted and made in and around the town of Kashan in north west central Iran (Persia), 150 miles south of the capital, Tehran.

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	Length	Width
	139" 353 cms	102 3⁄8" 260 cms

Stock: 12105

A large pair of Neoclassical stripped pine caryatid, possibly once part of a fireplace surround. The figures appear to be female their upper bodies draped in tasseled shawls.English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
each jamb	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	11" 28 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 11475

A small, carved alabaster sculpture of a Middle Eastern gentleman possibly Saladin (the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria), raised on a black marble plinth. The figure may have been cut down from a full size figure please see the last image below.
Early 19th, possibly late 18th century.

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		height without plinth	height with plinth
		7 1⁄2" 19 cms	9 1⁄2" 24.1 cms

Stock: 14953

A set of three Baroque style two branch ormolu wall lights. The backplates are centred by bearded, grotesque masks, each wearing acanthus leaf crowns, from which emanate twin scrolling arms supporting urn candle holders.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 11367

A pair of Victorian arched ceramic parapets. They would be an attractive addition to a garden. Some chips a/f.
Provenance: 298 Bishopsgate in the City Of London built between 1877-1890 and demolished in 1980.

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	width	Height	depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 7136

A small marble plaque of a imperious Roman senator carved in low relief.
Circa 1960.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10" 25.4 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms

Stock: 15266

A delicately veined blue/grey and white Breccia Marble antique chimneypiece in the French Empire style with a slow arched opening and deep side returns. French, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	50 1⁄4" 127.7 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
Internal	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 15252

A very large Bidjar carpet centred by a double lozenge design filled with the traditional small floral motifs in deep reds and blues. The name is taken from Bidjar, or Bijar, a small Kurdish town in north western Iran where the carpets are made many in the surrounding villages. As the weavers tie each knot they add an extra weft and use their heavy metal and wood combs to beat the weft and the knots down which makes the carpets strong and very durable and this stiff, heavy foundation creates carpets that can withstand many years of heavy use. Because of this they are known as “the iron rugs of Persia”.
Persian, mid 1950s.

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	Width	Length
	91 1⁄4" 232 cms	140 3⁄16" 356 cms

Stock: 3977

A large Scottish Regency carved giltwood overmantel mirror, the scrolled cockaded pediment over high relief carved floral and lozenge decoration. With the original mercury glass plate.
Scottish, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Maximum Depth
	75 11⁄16" 192.4 cms	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 14561

A set of four pairs traditional Georgian style antique bronze door handles.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	7 1⁄8" 18 cms		2 1⁄2" 6.3 cms
Internal

Stock: 14504

A large and sturdy Victorian copper with studied side panels, which can be used as a log bin or a jardiniere
English, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	12 13⁄16" 32.5 cms

Stock: 12499

A pair of William IV style mahogany armchairs. The deep-buttoned backs and stuffover seats upholstered in cherry red cowhide. The crinoline stretcher base connects the front turned legs to the splayed back legs all raised on brass castors. English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	24" 61 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms

Stock: 2845

A large 19th century Doulton ceramic pediment plaque of a female head with two putti in the Renaissance manner. Some damage a/f .
English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	33 1⁄2" 85 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Internal

Stock: 9694

A large low relief antique carved Italian circular marble wall plaque of a young Florentine noble in the Renaissance manner. Italian, 18th century.

The last image shows a similar plaque of Ludovico il Moro Sfarzo, the 7th Duke of Milan (1451 - 1508) displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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	Diameter	Depth
	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 13998

A fine pair of Louis XVI style brass chenets with twin pairs of egg and cup finials above foliate paterae flanking draped, spindle friezes, the back bars with small brass, steeple finials and all supported by tapering reeded legs.

French, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms
Internal

Stock: 15257

A mid twentieth century Isfahan carpet dominated by the central foliate medallion of intricate design surrounded by vines and flowers. These carpets are identified by the use of soft kork wool and silk woven in a very tight pile in red, magenta, blue or indigo on an ivory background.

The city of Isfahan is one of the finest in the Islamic world known for its wonderful Persian architecture. The carpets, woven here for centuries, are perhaps the best and most valuable to be found and are often inspired by the designs found in the buildings, gardens and palaces in this beautiful city. Persian, circa 1956.

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	Length	Width
	86 5⁄8" 220 cms	56 1⁄4" 143 cms

Stock: 13999

A Louis XV style fender bar, surmounted by a central leaf and sprig decoration, linking a pair of tall, elaborate foliate chenets in the Rococo style. French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 15254

A mid 20th century Bidjar carpet of woven floral motifs on a midnight blue background. These carpets have been made for centuries in and around the small Kurdish town of Bidjar, also known as Bijar, south of Tabriz in the northwest of Iran. They can be distinguished by their heavy wool or cotton foundation (cotton was used in the twentieth century). As the weaver ties each row of knots, an extra weft is added and pounded down. The stiff, heavy foundation that this creates allows the carpets to withstand up to many years of heavy use. Because of this they are known as “the iron rugs of Persia”. Persian, mid 1950s.

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	Length	Width
	83 1⁄8" 211 cms	55 1⁄2" 141 cms

Stock: 15255

A large Heriz carpet with bold geometric design from the Heris region in east Azerbaijan in northwest Persia now Iran. The villagers of the region continue to weave carpets following traditional patterns often from memory the design having been handed down from generation to generation and usually featuring a geometric pattern with large central medallions. They are both durable and hard wearing and it is said that they incorporate woven images relating to old folk tales.
Persian, circa 1950.

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	Length	Width
	153 1⁄8" 389 cms	116 7⁄8" 297 cms

Stock: 14958

A pair of Victorian, Rococo style twin branch brass wall lights with acanthus leaf clad stems and candle cups and with elaborately scrolled twin arms. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 14927

A pair of Baroque Dutch style six branch brass chandeliers. The scrolling arms support urn shaped candle cups and the central stem terminates in a large bulbous reverse finial. English, early 20th century.

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	Diameter	Drop
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms

Stock: 14023

An early 20th century large lead garden figure of a Naiad, a water nymph, seated on a rocky outcrop. Naiads in Greek mythology were water spirits or nymphs who were said to preside over fresh water fountains, wells, springs, streams and brooks. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 12386

A gilded spelter Rococo style ewer or pitcher with a stylised dragon handle of fine quality casting, moulded to the body with cherubs, masks and shields amid floral detail and raised on an elaborate round pedestal. French, circa 1860.

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	width	height	depth
	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39.2 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 15256

A Qashqai tribal carpet with a central midnight blue medallion filled and surrounded by a field of small floral motifs.

The Qashqai people, throughout their history, have been nomadic their tribes travelling hundreds of miles across the Middle East to winter near the Persian Gulf. Their history and culture is rich in both struggle and inspiration which greatly influences the designs and motifs found in their carpets and give them an unusual sense of spontaneity and aliveness. These carpets are usually woven by the women of the tribe who, defying the modern practice of using commercial dyes, continue to almost exclusively use natural vegetable and plant dyes and follow the more traditional weaving techniques. Their family carpets are greatly treasured and they have a saying: “Where I am is my carpet. Where my carpet and I am is my home.”
Persian, mid 1950s.

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	Length	Width
	94 1⁄8" 239 cms	62 3⁄16" 158 cms

Stock: 14974

A fine Regency fireplace surround in pure white Statuary Marble. Beautifully elegant in its simplicity. The twin cushioned panelled frieze, beneath the moulded shelf, is centred by a tablet depicting a reclining Venus, holding aloft a rose, beside a basket of flowers with her temple in the distance.The endblocks with large rosette paterae above cushioned panelled jambs.
English, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65" 165 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22.2 cms
Internal	46 1⁄8" 117 cms	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms