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Stock: 14626

A large Georgian pierced and finely engraved steel antique fireplace fender of bowed form raised on neat bun feet. The decorative, linked foliate patera band, set between bead edging, the delicately engraved central tablet contains a single oval paterae surrounded by cut studs.

English, late 18th century

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	Width	Height	Depth
	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 7259

A cluster of four weathered, sandstone columns surmounted by a twelve inch bronze sundial bearing the motto: " Correct the Past, Direct the Present, Discern the Future " The sundial has a finely engraved well patinated orginal Victorian face with an eight point compass rose, five minute intervals and fleur de lys on the half hours. English, dated 1896 - as found.

Please note that the missing gnomon can be replaced if required.

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	Top diameter.	Height
	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms	45 1⁄8" 114.5 cms

Stock: 14732

A Victorian cast iron register grate inset with fine Minton tiles designed by Christopher Dresser in 1873 framing the integral grate and with the with the words Registered Trade Mark ' The Abbotsford ' on the backplate. The broken bricks can be replaced.
English, circa 1875.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 13814

A small cast iron garden seat for two in the Rococo style.
English, mid to late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 9444

A pair of antique Greek Revival Anthymion panels carved in Portland Stone in the English Regency style. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24" 61 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 14717

A large pair of Scottish glazed stoneware Campan style garden urns. The wide brimmed bowls with linked egg and dart detail above gadrooned stems raised on stepped bases resting on sturdy reeded column stands.
Scottish late 19th early 20th century.

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	Diameter	Overall Height
urns	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms
bases	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 10497

A beautifully carved and pleasantly patinated early pine and gesso antique fireplace surround the shelf with a delicately carved border above repeating foliate bands, the frieze centred by gambolling putti within a medallion and with draped bellflowers and tied reeded bands either side within a beaded panel, flanked by carved figural endblocks above tied tapering reeded jambs.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	53 11⁄16" 136.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms
Internal	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	44 1⁄4" 112.4 cms

Stock: 9618

A red sandstone column and capital, adorned with putti and festoons. Scottish, 18th Century.

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	width / depth	height
	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms

Stock: 13551

A set of four highly ornate and elegant cast iron Victorian antique garden or conservatory chairs in the Rococo style with oval shaped acanthus scrolled backs, detatchable seats and quadruple splayed legs. English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 12765

A nineteenth century cast iron public drinking fountain the lion mask spout above a fluted drip bowl as found.
English 19th century. Before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15" 38 cms	38" 96.5 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 11429

A pair of Victorian recumbent antique terracotta garden lions raised on moulded bases - one base is damaged and they have once been painted and stripped - as found.
English,19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 4816

Two pairs or a set of four Victorian terracotta urns decorated with fruit and flowers raised on square bases. English, late 19th century. Can be sold in pairs.

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	width (base)	height	depth
	17 1⁄2" 44.4 cms	20 3⁄16" 51.4 cms

Stock: 9445

A set of four reconstituted stone garden bowls or pots in the form of scrolled cornucopia believed to have once been part of a fountain pond. English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 13133

An enormous pair of pomme de pin ( pine cone ) carved stone gatepost finials in the form of pine cones supported on acanthus leaves.
French, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 14022

A large terracotta Victorian octagonal Gothic style garden urn.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms
Base	23 1⁄2" 59.8 cms

Stock: 13919

A large lead garden planter each panel decorated with a geometric design centred by lion masks
English early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms

Stock: 13809

A pair of large antique cast iron campana style Victorian garden urns with a linked leaf collar on the tapering bowls supported on stepped socles resting on two tier bases. English, mid 19th century.

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	width	hight
	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms

Stock: 13663

A very large well carved 20th century Carrara Marble growling garden lioness couchant.
English possbly French, mid 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms

Stock: 13199

A small 20th century burnished and etched brass and steel bow fronted firegrate in the English Rococo manner, with an arched back, four mounted brass finials and a cut etched serpentine apron incorporating a spread winged eagle amid foliage. The scrolled legs are supported on turned baluster feet.
English, mid to late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	13" 33 cms
Back width	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms

Stock: 14617

A large Victorian Aesthetic Movement fire basket. The arched back is cast with a Japanese style fishscale decoration with a floral roundel to the centre. The two barred grate cast with Aesthetic Movement motifs is supported by a pair of very tall steeple standards above sturdy scrolled feet.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	24 3⁄16" 61.5 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms
Back width	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms

Stock: 14709

18th century portrait of a lady in the typical dress of the early Georgian period; chemise, modesty piece, vee décolletage, criss-cross bodice, full sleeves and hair arranged in a long straight coiffure. There is evidence of a pentiment about the shoulders and there is loose, confident brushwork; especially in the drapery. The painting exudes the sparse elegance of the period; there is intelligence in the assertive gaze of the sitter.

Circle of Michael Dahl (1659-1743). Oil on canvas with 19th century re-lining and frame.
English school, c.1710

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	width	height	depth
With frame	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms
Without frame	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms

Stock: 14414

An imposing and profusely carved French Baroque style fireplace surround in lightly veined white Carrara Marble with an upper coffered stop fluted frieze and stepped entablature above an arched egg and dart band.

The fine quality clock, set within an arched niche framed by a foliate edged band above the garlanded frieze, strikes the hour and the half hour on a single bell. The clock face has gilt Roman numerals on a marble bed within a gilt egg and tongue frame. The delicately pierced hands are finely engraved with foliate detail and the clock is stamped on the movement Bailly Sr De Weibel, Breveté S.G.O.G. A Lyon.

The opening is edged with a finely carved leaf and berry band and the jambs each have two tapering, garlanded grotesque terms to the front and the sides terminating in large lion claw feet resting on stepped footblocks. Shown here with andirons SNo12527 not included in the price.
French, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	66 7⁄8" 170 cms	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
Internal	37" 94 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 13535

An antique fire-clay bowl and pedestal column in the Italian Renaissance style with a fluted shaft decorated with candelabrum acanthus. Attributed to the Garnick Fire-clay Company.Circa 1857.

Notes: The Garnick Company known for being the biggest manufacturer of fire-clay articles worldwide, worked for a great number of famous architects and sculptors, Alexander "Greek" Thompson, among others and was represented at the Great Exhibition in 1851. The company stopped by the end of the 19th century after it had run out of clay supplies.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	47 3⁄8" 120.5 cms

Stock: 14548

A large antique cast iron Arts and Crafts Victorian fire grate in the Renaissance style with a fine shield and oak leaf decorated back plate, double fleur de lys finials mounted on the grate and griffin holding brass rings in their mouths topping the standards.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms
	22 3⁄16" 56.5 cms

Stock: 14651

An exuberant, highly ornate antique cast iron Victorian chimneypiece in the English Rococo style with the original manufacturers faux oak painted finish now pleasantly distressed. The foliate frieze is centred by a large shell cartouche flanked by huge scrolling garlanded jambs framing the curved opening edged with chained beading.
English, with a diamond registration mark for 1854.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 5⁄8" 156.5 cms	47 5⁄8" 120.8 cms	10 1⁄2" 26.7 cms
Internal	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 13276

A pair of cast iron campana style urns on integral plinths, the shallow wide brimmed lobbed bowls above waisted socles, the stepped plinths with impressed crazed patterning.
English, 1870s.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 10776

One New Change Keystones.
LION'S HEAD MASK
Circa 1957.Sculptor: Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler, President of The Royal Academy, 1956-66.

Provenance: Originally one of three keystones on the façade above the main entrance of the One New Change building in the City of London.

The building erected in the 1950s to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department & demolished in 2007, occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wren's majestic Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral.

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	width	height	depth
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	25" 63.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 14374

A rare and monumental cast iron Victorian, Coalbrookdale fire grate with an elaborately scrolled backplate featuring 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 Coalbrookdale Company registered September 6th 1841 number 814 can 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.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Back width	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 14082

A somewhat distressed Victorian carved Portland Stone Lion Fountain Head.
English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 10764

Bank of England Sculpture Collection :The new 'Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.'
English, circa 1957.
Sculptor: Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler, President of The Royal Academy, 1956-66.

A smaller version of the 1934 Art Deco sculpture still centering the pediment over the main entrance of the Bank of England Threadneedle Street frontage also sculpted by the same sculptor.

Provenance: This version was removed from high above the main entrance of the One New Change building in the City of London the building, erected in the 1950s to accommodate the Bank of England's Accounts Department Annexe and occupied the whole site bounded by Cheapside to the north, Watling Street to the south, Bread Street to the east, Newgate to the north west and New Change to the west and filled a sensitive site in that it presented a backdrop to Christopher Wren's magnificent Roman Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral. The building was demolished in 2007.

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	width	height
	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms

Stock: 14569

A pretty, delicately carved Statuary Marble Louis XVI style antique French fireplace surround. The breakfront moulded shelf rests above a fine stop fluted frieze with a central tablet of carved swag and ribbons. The frieze is flanked by a pair of floral roundels on the endblocks above attached, angled, half round, stop fluted, tapering columns fronting the jambs resting on neat footblocks and to each side are plain panelled side returns.
French, late 19th century.

Shown here with chenet SNo 14192.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.5 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Internal	46 13⁄16" 118.8 cms	34 3⁄8" 87.5 cms

Stock: 14377

An antique French cast iron 18th century small Gothic style fire basket with a shaped arched backplate.
French, late 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	24 1⁄2" 62.2 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Back width	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 14664

A very fine pair of etched brass Victorian andirons in the Baroque style with high capped finials above tall barley twist standards and similar capped finials on the back bars. The barley twist, fleur de lys spearhead bar rests on bracket supports, themselves mounted with further capped finials The standards are supported on large curved ornate feet each with three projecting Tudor Rose arms.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	26 5⁄8" 67.5 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms
Each andiron	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	26 5⁄8" 67.5 cms

Stock: 14641

A late Victorian White and Crema Valencia antique marble fireplace mantel of a pleasingly simple design with a moulded shelf above a plain frieze flanked by stop fluted jambs, together with the original white marble fire kerb.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72 3⁄16" 183.5 cms	50 3⁄16" 127.5 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms
Internal	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 14627

An antique Victorian brass fireplace fender with a pierced fretwork frieze held within brass bands and raised on three lion paw feet.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	10 13⁄16" 27.5 cms	13" 33 cms