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Stock: 12202

An Art Deco polished chrome plated register grate and matching fender set with pearl bead decoration around the edges, corner fleurettes, and a central stylised geometric pattern motif. Presented with the original matching fender.
English 1930s.

	Width	Depth	Height
Insert	42" 106.7 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	40 11⁄16" 103.5 cms
Fender	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 14190

A simple tall giltwood overmantel antique mirror with bead edging and with it's original plate.

English,late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	89" 226 cms	2 5⁄8" 6.5 cms

Stock: 14054

A pair of tall Arts and Crafts antique wrought iron andirons with scrolled bars on the supports and Tudor Rose style finials and mounted detail. Shown below with a 24"swan basket.

English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
Each andiron	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms

Stock: 13935

An early 19th century Regency rosewood and inlaid satinwood Sheraton Revival firescreen, the fabric panel depicting a couple strolling near pyramids in a desert scene, the frame with an acanthus scrolled handle and with carved tulip decoration on the side columns.
English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms

Stock: 14332

An elegant cast iron Georgian bullseye antique register grate insert with a three barred integral grate with angled side panels and an ornate acanthus scrolled foliate detailed apron.
English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47" 119.5 cms	45 7⁄8" 116.5 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 14400

A cast iron Victorian Gothic fireplace fender with stiff leaf decoration and rope twist bars and with a diamond registration mark for 1868.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Outside	65" 165 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	16 1⁄4" 41.3 cms
Inside	56 3⁄16" 142.8 cms

Stock: 14347

A cast iron Victorian antique arched fireplace insert with a two barred integral grate and foliate detail around the opening. and a slender shaped backplate.
English, mid to late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	38" 96.5 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 14564

A fine, large and stately French Renaissance style antique walnut fireplace with a tall pedimented overmantel set with winged dragons holding a caduceus cartouche above the large egg and dart framed mirror. The three panelled frieze of the fireplace is supported by a pair of ornate free standing columns fronting the jambs. French, late 19th century.

Shown here with andirons SNo 12149 not included in the price.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	74 3⁄16" 188.5 cms	143 7⁄8" 365.5 cms	25" 63.5 cms
Internal	51 5⁄8" 131 cms	56 1⁄8" 142.5 cms

Stock: 14256

A large replica cast iron arched fireback with figures framed in a rural setting .in the neoclassical style.
English, mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30 1⁄8" 76.5 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 14452

A Victorian cauldron shaped antique studded copper log bin in the Georgian manner with lion mask and ring handles and raised on three lion paw feet. English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 14432

A complete carved oak wainscot panelled room recently removed from a large house in Lille in northern France close to the border with Belgium.

The panelled suite includes a large Belgian Black Marble fireplace, a pair of full height doors and a set of six original late 19th century machine woven tapestries. The two sets of original windows, shown in situ in the images below, are not available but the panelled sections surrounding the window openings are and remain part of the whole suite. The doors and the window openings are surmounted by decorative carved friezes with highly ornate pediments flanked by tall pilasters. Further pilasters flank the overmantel mirror of original mercury plate above the fireplace and the mirror is surmounted by it's own richly carved pediment. The six late 19th century machine woven tapestries depicting various medieval rural pass-times are set above each section of panelling.

The large and imposing Belgian Baroque style fireplace surround has a deeply moulded shelf above a panelled frieze with a central foliate panel flanked by swagged corbels, repeated on the side returns, above descending bellflower detail on the jambs over bold moulded footblocks. The opening is framed by inner slips with carved lambs tongue moulding and floral spandrels.
French, circa 1880.

Shown here with firegrate SNo 14446 not included in the price and fireback panels SNo 14125 now sold.

Room Measurements:
Width 19ft ( 5m 58cms)
Depth 18ft 4ins (5m 80cms)
Height 12ft 4ins (3m 73cms)

Fireplace dimensions.
Width 78 3/8" (119cms)
Height 47 1/4" (120cms)
Depth 15" (38cm) + 9 1/2" (24cms) return around chimney
Internal width 39 3/4" (101cms)
Internal height 27 3/4" (70,5 cms)

Notes: Wainscot panelling is found lining the interior walls of rooms and hallways and usually forms the lower part of the walls.

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Stock: 14251

A rare 19th century Statuary Marble and ormolu chimneypiece in the French Regency style with a large, exquisitely carved 18th century panel after Clodion (1738 – 1814).

The fireplace, originally in the drawing room of Brook House, located at 113 Park Lane in Mayfair London, was made to accommodate the extraordinary18th century panel which was probably acquired during a Grand Tour.
The panel depicts 'Le Triomphe d'Amphitrite' who can be seen in the centre riding a dolphin attended by putti, tritons(mermen) and nereids(mermaids). Finely applied ormolu, set beneath the cornice shelf and on the jambs and sides, frames the panel and there are intricately detailed ormolu rams heads and tumbling festoons adorning each jamb above which are corbels embellished with large ormolu acanthus leaves.
Provenance: Brook House, Park Lane, Mayfair, London. English late 1860s.

Notes on Amphitrite & Poseidon.
Amphitrite was one of the fifty Nereids who were attendants of the sea-god Poseidon. On first seeing Amphitrite Poseidon fell deeply in love and ardently pursued her. When she fled his wooing he sent dolphins after her who finally persuaded her to return to become his bride. The bearded figure on the far right of the panel could well be Poseidon himself.

Notes on Brook House.
Brook House was built in the French style from 1867-1869 by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt for Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, the 1st Lord Tweedmouth. The interiors were designed by the renowned 19th century decorators Wright & Mansfield who were strongly influenced by French design. Please see photo below of the Brook House Drawing Room which shows the fireplace in situ. The photograph is courtesy of the Country Life Archives and was taken by Charles Latham in 1902 for The King Magazine and later included in 'London Interiors' written by John Cornforth and published by Country Life.

Ernest Cassell, private banker to Edward VII, bought Brook House from Lord Tweedmouth in 1904 and lived there with his granddaughter Edwina Ashley who later became Countess Mountbatten when she married Louis Mountbatten in 1922. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma was the uncle of the Queen's consort, the Duke of Edinburgh. Their marriage was attended by the then King and Queen and the Prince of Wales and the reception was held in Brook House. The couple later moved into a suite on the third floor. The house was subsequently demolished and redeveloped in the 1930's.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	88 5⁄8" 225 cms	65 3⁄16" 165.5 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms
Internal	53 1⁄2" 136 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 14417

An elegant steel and brass antique Regency fireplace fender with a pair of integral fire tool stands to either side together with their matching set of three fire tools. The fender enriched with a brass mounted foliate and medallion band. English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Fender	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms
Fire tools	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms

Stock: 14460

A sturdy three seat Arts and Crafts antique oak church pew, with a central pierced quatrefoil panel on the back repeated on each curved and shaped side panel. English late 19th.

Photos before cleaning.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	68 1⁄8" 173 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 14579

A late Victorian brass and mesh medium sized antique nursery fireplace fender, surmounted by acorn finials and raised on claw feet. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	24" 61 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 14466

A replica cast iron fireback an exact copy of the one made by the Carron Foundry of Falkirk in Scotland, cast with a knight on horseback and inscribed "L D Fairfax Covnqvonror ". and identical to fireback SNo 14056. An illustration of this fireback can be seen on page 204 of Carron's 'Architects Catalogue' circa 1910, please see the 4th image below. English, late 20th century.

Notes: Fairfax was a commander in The New Model Army of England formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, and was disbanded in 1660 after the Restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 14597

A rather smart, low and wide typically 1930's, Onyx and Portoro Marble Art Deco fireplace surround with the original reeded bronze insert. The curved and fluted Portoro jambs flank Onyx panels either side of the opening above the Onyx hearth.
English circa 1930.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 5⁄8" 187 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms
Internal	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 14398

A superb, tall and elegant twin columned Gothic Revival antique chimneypiece in finely figured, softly dark grey Saint Anne Marble. This is a wonderful fireplace imposing in its simplicity and one of a kind. The wide moulded shelf rests on twin pairs of attached octagonal columns, each with moulded capitals, supported on sturdy footblocks. The plain frieze is centred by a simple shield above the slow arch of the opening set with quatrefoil carvings on the spandrels.
English, possibly Scottish circa 1860.

Shown here together with firegrate SNo 11882 now sold.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 1⁄2" 209.5 cms	54 5⁄8" 138.6 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms
Internal	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 14443

A 20th century large, highly ornate and decorative French Rococo style gilt bronze firescreen with a cherub fanning a reclining maiden on the mesh panel.
French, mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	28" 71 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 14560

A very large and unusual cast iron and bronze English Regency register grate, with an integral toothed grate front with three floral roundels to either side, the surround with large bronze rosettes and framed and edged with fine bronze beading. English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	47 1⁄2" 120.6 cms	44 1⁄2" 113 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
Internal	35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms

Stock: 14492

A wide and low French Rococo style cast iron fireplace insert with a shaped serpentine top and opening and with deep cross hatching throughout.
French mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	35 13⁄16" 91 cms

Stock: 14516

A tall and imposing antique walnut trumeau chimneypiece together with it's original cast iron back plate and accompanying side panels. The large carved salamander on the trumeau is set beneath a high pediment. The fireplace surround, with a rectangular opening and a wide gadrooned frieze centred by acanthus carving, is supported by two large free standing balustered columns resting on plinths above large footblocks. The original central cast iron back panel is centred by another salamander amidst the flames and the twin side panels are embellished with a display of bees.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	65" 165 cms	114 3⁄16" 290 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.5 cms
Internal	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms	39 5⁄8" 100.5 cms

Stock: 14568

A richly veined large Belgian Griotte Rouge Marble antique Victorian fireplace, the panelled frieze, centred by a panel of three akroter, is flanked by floral paterae on the endblocks above jambs fronted by tapering panels topped by small akroter with trailing foliate detail above neat footblocks.
Belgian, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	68 11⁄16" 174.5 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Internal	46 11⁄16" 118.5 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 14497

A pair of polished cast iron Baroque style andirons with steeple finials above balusters in the form of mace, set on rectangular plinths supported on sturdy splayed feet.

English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 28 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 14444

A large and highly decorative cast iron antique French fireplace insert embellished in the Neoclassical style with pavilions, dancing maidens and floral and foliate detail throughout.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	47" 119.5 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms
Internal	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms

Stock: 14331

A simple but elegant cast iron and brass antique Georgian register grate, fireplace insert with a three barred integral grate mounted with a pair of small brass urn finials above a cut apron of linked rings each with a central boss. English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	42" 106.7 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms

Stock: 14171

An antique French cast iron fireback depicting figures and a dog in a rural setting
in a scrolling foliate frame. French late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 14308

A gilt bronze highly elaborate, twin train striking mantel clock garniture in the Rococo style embellished throughout with acanthus scrolls and swags, urns, acorn finials and applied leaf detail echoed on the twin five branch candelabra.

The enamel clock face has fine cobalt blue Roman hours and black Arabic minutes with elaborate pierced
and engraved gilt hands. Movement by Bonnard, Dijon.
French mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Clock	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms
Candelabras	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14528

A pair of tall wrought iron andirons each with faceted silver plated brass finials and
silver plated stylised griffin tool rest plates mounted on tapering standards supported on sturdy splayed feet. English, early 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 14459

A tall pair of elegant Georgian style antique cast brass andirons. The fluted Corinthian columns, topped with finely styled urn finials, are supported on leaf moulded, splayed feet ending in tiptoe lion paws, the back bars mounted by a further pair of delicately styled finials.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 13⁄16" 27.5 cms	27 3⁄8" 69.5 cms	19 7⁄8" 50.5 cms

Stock: 14549

A large, rare and imposing late George II English Rococo chimneypiece with strong Palladian influences carved in white Statuary Marble and inlaid with panels of Verde Tinos Marble. The panelled frieze, beneath a moulded serpentine shelf, is centred by a richly carved 'pelta' scroll cartouche with very finely carved trailing jasmine sprigs flanked on the endblocks by large C Scrolls. The generously scrolling, canted console jambs, with linked cartouche and acanthus detail, terminate in single hart's tongue fern fronds and are supported on simple foot blocks. Provenance: The Earls of Minto, Minto House, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
Scottish, circa 1750-1760

Shown here with andirons SNo 10202 now sold.

Minto House Notes:
This 18th century chimneypiece was selected by the 4th Earl of Minto to be installed in the Octagonal Drawing Room of Minto House by the decorators W. Turner Lord & Company, of 120 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, London, whose estimate for the works was dated 18 September 1891. The tower of an earlier property had been incorporated by William Adam in his design for Minto House around 1740 and the House has subsequently undergone various expansions. One was carried our by Archibald Elliot at the beginning of the 19th century, it was further altered by William Playfair in 1837 and was finally enlarged by Robert Lorimer at the end of the 19th century. Minto House was owned by the Elliott family and the Earls of Minto for several centuries but from the mid 1960s it began to fall into disrepair and suffering from increasing neglect it slowly deteriorated to a state where it was finally demolished in 1992.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	83 1⁄2" 212 cms	61" 155 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms

Stock: 14217

Louis XV Rococo style heavy gilt bronze and mesh antique fire screen with a pair of brass cherubs on the mesh panel with a highly ornate acanthus and foliate frame raised on pairs of scrolling feet. French, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height
External	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 14510

An early 19th century Adam style three barred cast iron fire grate mounted with a pair of small polished iron finials, a cut and beaded apron and supported by a pair of fluted standards topped by a larger pair of urn finials above paterae detail. English mid to late 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 12133

A pair of very small 19th century patinated cast iron campan urns in the Neo Classical style, the integral plinths with trophy decoration. English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms

Stock: 14073

A large Venetian baroque naval lantern, known as a fanò or fanale. These lanterns played an important role in the Venetian Armata (fleet), being mounted on a pole above the stern, which was the command centre of the vessel. This would emit much needed light and signals. Only squadron leaders were permitted to bear a single, grand lantern such as this on their galley; only nobleman were allowed the honour of this position. They lavishly decorated these vessels – which actually belonged to the Venetian Republic – with rich ornamentation such as carved panelling, lanterns and metalwork to indicate familial wealth and prestige. This of course, contributed to the intimidating display of martial valour.br> Conforming to the prevailing fashion of the Baroque, this lantern is ornately carved; solomonic columns flank the frame and dolphins dive down in the form of c scrolls, supporting the structure above. One later addition is the pendant knob, which would likely have been added when the lantern was converted to a hanging lantern (probably in the 18th century). Lanterns were often converted to hang in the androni (entrance halls) of Venetian homes, where other items associated with the families’ naval exploits could be displayed to celebrate their naval history.

Remarkably similar lanterns can be seen in Andrea Vicentino monumental painting in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, depicting The Battle of Lepanto, painted in 1595.

It is highly likely that this lantern was made by the renowned Venetian picture frame makers.

Converted to electricity.
Rare surviving original gilding. Italian, 17th century.

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	Width	Drop
	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms