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Stock: 15127

A splendid Gothic Revival cast iron Victorian fireplace fender, with decorative repeating arches and quatrefoil on the frieze above a foliate skirt, raised on claw and ball feet.

English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 15128

A large and handsome Victorian brass and cast iron hooded fire grate in the Baroque manner. This impressive grate has a high shaped hood inset with an ornate repousse brass panel above a deep grate surmounted by a pair of brass finials and with turned spindle bars along the apron. The whole is supported by a pair of fine pierced brass baluster standards raised on triple paw feet. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	37" 94 cms	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
Back width	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms

Stock: 15080

A very large and fine example of a Victorian burnished cast iron Coalbrookdale chimney piece in the Georgian Neoclassical manner of Robert Adam. The decorative urn on the freeze beneath the wide shelf is flanked by swags which in turn are flanked by pairs on lidded urns on the end blocks above twin pilasters with descending foliate detail.
English, the Coalbrookdale foundry mark and the number 367840 are on the back as is shown in the last image and date it to 1881. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	78 7⁄8" 200.3 cms	55 1⁄4" 140.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 15068

A fine brass and cast iron fire grate, in the George III style. The high shaped back with a central cartouche depicts a double headed eagle and shield, held by a man and a woman. The bars of the grate are elegantly bowed, and sit above a richly embellished apron which is pierced and profusely engraved with a ribboned and floral design. The andirons are surmounted by steeple finials and supported by curved shoulders which are also finely engraved.
English, 19th century incorporating a significant amount earlier 18th century elements.

Notes - In heraldry the double-headed eagle is a charge associated with the concept of Empire and is frequently found with links to the Roman/Byzantine Empire and also the Holy Roman Empire, which after its dissolution, the double-headed eagle was retained by the Austrian Empire, and served also as the coat of arms of the German Confederation.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Back width	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 15083

A large decorative Adam style cast iron Victorian fire surround with wide moulded shelf above an egg and dart band.The central panel on the frieze with quivers and arrows is flanked by ribboned foliate swags. The sturdy panelled jambs embellished with ropes of descending bellflowers. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 11⁄16" 179.6 cms	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	11 1⁄8" 28.2 cms
Internal	33 1⁄2" 85 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms

Stock: 15056

A pair of tall brass antique andirons in the Classical style. Each with slender tapering baluster columns topped by swagged urns and lidded finials and supported by ornately designed scrolling legs with small lion paw feet.

French, late 19th Century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12" 30.5 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 12734

A large Victorian limestone fireplace surround in the Elizabethan style with carved shields and highly stylised mythical beasts carved on the spandrels. Image before restoration. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 1⁄4" 155.6 cms	49" 124.5 cms	6" 15.2 cms
Internal	48" 122 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms

Stock: 15076

A very large brass lantern (one of 3 available) of hexagonal form, with an elegantly domed top and and a central chandelier fitting. English, c.1950. Provenance: The Garrick Club, London.

	Diameter	Height
Smaller diameter	27 3⁄8" 69.5 cms	55 7⁄8" 142 cms
Larger diameter	31 11⁄16" 80.5 cms

Stock: 15001

A pretty pair of Art Nouveau style brass fire tool rests with fleur de lys finials and supported on pairs of splayed paw feet. English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 13⁄16" 19.7 cms	12 13⁄16" 32.4 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 14970

A finely carved early George III giltwood wall mirror in the manner of Thomas Chippendale, surmounted by a large Ho-Ho bird perched with wings outspread. The mirror with its original mercury glass also is framed by gilt acanthus scrolls, rosettes and foliate detail. The mirror has a lovely rubbed and burnished surface. English, circa.1765.

The Ho Ho bird myth originated in Japan and is similar to the phoenix. It was said to bring luck and symbolise good fortune. Carvings of these birds appeared in England in the 18th century on Georgian furniture and most commonly mounted on mirrors.

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	width	height
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	48" 122 cms

Stock: 15063

A period six branch cut glass chandelier with a faceted baluster stem issuing 6 glass arms fitted with cut glass drip pans hanging with faceted drops.
French, circa 1930.

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	Diameter	drop
without chain	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 15060

A Victorian cast iron and brass mounted large antique fire grate with a stepped arched back plate centred by a radial foliate design and central boss. The wide grate, surmounted by a pair of urn finials, is flanked by shoulders with seated dragons and is supported by a pair of prominent tapered and fluted classical style standards topped by ornate flambeau finials. English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms	26 3⁄16" 66.5 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Back width	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 15220

A Victorian burnished and riveted copper cauldron which could be used as a log bin. English, mid 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 14968

An impressive and large late 19th century French quarter chiming gilt brass Gothic Revival bracket or mantel clock retailed by Hall & Company, Manchester. The case, with engraved floral decoration and applied coloured cabuchon jewel mounts, encloses a gilt 7" Roman dial with a finely scroll engraved centre and an eight day spring driven movement with anchor escapement chiming the quarters on a nest of two bells. The movement was made in Saint Nicolas d' Aliermont, by Pierre-Honoré-César Pons and then finished by the Parisian Clock maker, Louis Achille Brocot. French, circa 1870.

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	width	height	depth
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 14017

An Arts and Crafts cast and wrought iron fire basket. The cast back plate with a depiction of a Bacchanalian procession. The grate is supported to the front by a pair of tall standards with outswept, pierced bronze roundels raised on splayed scrolled feet. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Back width	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 11502

An elegant brass Regency fireplace fender with a bombe shaped central panel set within a pair of reeded bands and raised on three lion claw feet.
Earl,y 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 13903

A small pierced steel and brass D shaped Victorian fireplace fender raised on three lion paw feet.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 13631

A large Art Nouveau stoneware jardiniere and stand made by Doulton of Lambeth with stylised lotus and rosette.
English circa 1910.

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	diameter	height
jardiniere	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
stand	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms

Stock: 13404

A large decorative pair of Arts & Crafts wrought iron andirons, in the manner of Ernest Gimson, with intricately pierced brass foliate roundels surmounted on the concave iron uprights. resting on splayed feet. English, circa 1930.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 14985

An interesting pair of cast brass chenets in the Neoclassical style. Each in the of lyre with relief grotesque masks, raised on pairs of sturdy scrolled feet resting on inverted breakfront bases.

French, late 18th/early 19th Century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 14542

A Victorian brass fireplace fender in the Neoclassical style surmounted by a pair of bars each with three small, square columns and decorated with rosettes.

English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	52 5⁄8" 133.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms

Stock: 14370

A large, and rather grand Baroque style antique cast iron Victorian fire basket with a high arched sunburst themed backplate. The bow fronted grate has a lower knopped barley twist front bar beneath an upper bar surmounted with three knob finials. The grate is supported by a pair of columned standards, topped by pinnacle finials, above sturdy shaped feet.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Back Width	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 14997

An antique walnut Victorian canterbury with a single drawer and bobbin turned spindles. Four small knopped finials surmount the burr walnut top rail and the whole is supported on turned legs with their original brass and porcelain cup castors. English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	19 1⁄2" 49.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 15049

A pair of patinated bronze torchere wall lights with glass flambeau shades. English, c.1920.

	Width	Height	Depth
	3 1⁄2" 9 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 14857

A rigid steel wire mesh Victorian antique fireplace fender with a polished steel top rail.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms

Stock: 14858

A polished steel cross hatched wire mesh Victorian fireplace fender with a polished steel top rail.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	51" 129.5 cms	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 14891

A late Georgian burnished steel bow fronted fireplace fender in the manner of Robert Adam. The Pierced frieze, with rows of small bosses above and below and alternating square panels each centred with a lozenge, above beaded edging.

English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	49 5⁄8" 126 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 13902

A wide, late Victorian brass fireplace fender. The upper bar supported on a series of tapering spindle supports resting on a stepped base etched with diamond and floral motifs within beaded bands.

English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	53 1⁄4" 135.5 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 14842

A large Victorian cast iron fireplace fender with recumbent Lions holding bronze shields bearing the British coat of arms and with stiff leaf decoration along the frieze which is surmounted by a pair of globe shaped finials linked by a bar.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 14371

A polished cast iron highly ornate serpentine Rococo fireplace fender in the Louis XV manner with scrolling foliage along the frieze surmounted by large acanthus leaf detail. English, Circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms

Stock: 14931

A large and beautifully made late Edwardian silver plated brass ceiling light suspended from four rigid barley twist chains. The gallery is set with mythological dolphins alternating with rosette medallions beneath which is the charming, cut and frosted glass bowl held within a highly ornate frame of scrolling tendrils, bellflowers, rosettes and reverse anthemions. English, Circa 1910.

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	Diameter	Drop (without chain)
	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14657

A small pierced brass Victorian fireplace fender with a repeating fleur de lys and bead central band and raised on a pair of reverse cupped feet. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms

Stock: 14880

A fine Edwardian matched set of wrought iron and copper fireplace accessories. The set consists of a large fender with exuberant scrollwork and leaf detail held by a series of copper knopped finials and a pair of reeded finial topped unrights; a pair of tool rests, with ornate copper foliate detail raised on scrolled feet and a pair of barley twist fire tools, a poker and a pair of tongs with reeded finial topped handles together with a copper finial tool stop.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Fender	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	14" 35.5 cms
tool rest	10" 25.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 14855

A wide Pierced steel antique Victorian fireplace fender. The serpentine freeze, pierced with a double slat design interspersed with a series of boss medallions and with bead edging, is supported by a pair of sturdy pillars on plinth feet.

English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60" 152.5 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 15087

A small but delightfully ornate Victorian cast iron fireplace surround. The high moulded shelf, above a reeded panel, surmounts the shaoed frieze decorated with a profusion of birds, sprigs, stylised flowers and berries. The integral grate sits within an arched frame of cross hatching and paterae.English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms	6 1⁄2" 16.6 cms