Stock: 16721

A fine and large 17th century ebonised ripple mirror. This striking mirror has a wonderful patina, the warmth of the wood just gleaning through the original ebonised finish. This encloses a foxed Mercury plate.
Such a wonderful survival from this period, perhaps originally a picture frame, and later re-purposed as a mirror.

Possibly Italian made for the Dutch market, c.1670.

These frames were thought to have originated in Germany - possibly Nuremberg - and are now most commonly associated with the Dutch 17th century tradition. The frames were in fact often produced in Italy, Spain and Flanders, using both ebony veneer and stained softwood. A machine was developed specifically to create the ripple effect, creating undulations in the wood using a fixed blade on a jig. These frames have become synonymous with the Dutch tradition as they were favoured by artists as they did not detract from the subject, and instead drew the gaze towards it.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 16697

An exceptional giltwood Venetian wall mirror. The fine frame has strapwork cresting, pierced sides and apron, the whole carved with rocaille, c-scrolls and floral flourishes, enclosing the mirror plate, which is surmounted by a fine cartouche also with mirror plate to the crest.

Venice, c.1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	65 3⁄8" 166 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16540

An exceptionally fine 19th century French brass fender, Regence in style. Adorned with opposing griffins, whose rings hold a length of brass chain whilst they sit atop the beautifully cast chenet bar, this fender is wonderfully grand.

French, early 19th century.

Please note, the width can be reduced by bringing the chenet closer together.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	46 11⁄16" 118.5 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 16703

A French gilt-bronze fire-screen, the frame surmounted by a ribbon-tied wreath, the sides with flaming torches, the mesh screen mounted with a relief-cast musical trophy.

French, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	30 3⁄16" 76.8 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms

Stock: 6622

A rare fireplace insert by Thomas Jeckyll for Barnard Bishop and Barnard. Epitomising the Aesthetic movement style, the insert is mounted with a cast brass panel decorated with Jeckyll's signature use of Japanese mons, but the most striking decoration is of course the handpainted tiles on a burnt orange ground, decorated with birds of paradise perching on stylised branches. A rare survival of extraordinary beauty.

English, circa 1870. Notes: Barnard, Bishop and Barnards were at the heart of Norwich's iron industry, and the company gained an international reputation after their collaboration with Thomas Jeckyll. Jeckyll’s associations with a group of London artists – notably James Abbott McNeill Whistler – made him a key figure in the Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement. Jeckyll used japonaise designs for Barnards’ fireplaces while his sunflower motif came to symbolise the Aesthetic Movement.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38" 96.5 cms	38" 96.5 cms	8" 20.3 cms
Internal	18 3⁄8" 46.7 cms	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms

Stock: 16467

A fine antique fire tool stand in brass, with a fine barleytwist shaft and an ornate base. Perfect when paired with a set of our brass fire tools.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 3⁄8" 24 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	9 3⁄8" 24 cms

Stock: 16532

A wonderful set of Rococo style fire tools in brass. Topped with rocaille foliate handles, the slender shafts terminate in scrolling foliate tongs, and a lovely repoussé shovel.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 16200

A large set of steel fire tools on stand. This companion set is strikingly modern in design, with twisted shafts and stand with a scrolling tripartite base.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Stand	11" 28 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16603

An Aesthetic Movement octagonal occasional table with an ebonised finish and a Ebony, Thuya and marquetry veneered top, raised on turned legs united by a crossover stretcher.

English, c.1870 .

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	Diameter	Height
	22" 56 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms

Stock: 16106

A set of unusual and large wrought iron fire tools, with matching tool rests, very much in the Aesthetic Movement Style. The tools are finished with brass rings to the finials, and the tool rests have turned brass knobs.

English, c.1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Firetools	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	2" 5 cms
Rests	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 16590

A fine example of an early twentieth century oak cased time recorder clock, with an eight day movement. The glass to the door bears the words Blick-Time Recorders Limited 174 Gray's Inn Road London SE1. The clock face with Roman numerals is set within a wooden frame and bears the name "Blick Time Recorder Ltd. 188 Grays Inn Road, London EC". The ornate cast iron front containing the card slot is also inscribed with the Blick name in a diamond lozenge This Time Recorder clock is fully serviced and in full working order, with its original keys.

English, circa 1930.

Notes: Time Recorders like this one would have been used to record the times workers came in and out of their place of work. Blick was started around 1900. In 1917 the company bought the sales rights for the Follet time stamp (USA). Blick was one of the two largest manufacturers of time recorders in the UK. In 1920 the National Time Recorder Company agreed to market their machines as 'Blick National' in the UK. In 1922 the company 'Blick Time Recorders Ltd' was established and in 1927 the word 'National' was was dropped and all machines being sold under the Blick name.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14" 35.5 cms	34 1⁄4" 87.2 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 16566

A rare pair of very fine Louis XV marble fireplaces in a beautifully veined breche voilette marble. On each, the serpentine shelf is mounted over the serpentine frieze, beautifully carved with a central acanthine cartouche, which in turns rests on generous console jambs, their side returns fitted with fine brass vents.

It is extraordinarily rare to have an original pair of fireplaces of such quality.

French, mid-19th century.

Provenance: A fine house in Italy.

Outer footblock to footblock width 61" 155cms

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63 13⁄16" 162 cms	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Internal	48 7⁄8" 124.3 cms	36 7⁄8" 93.8 cms

Stock: 6602

A strikingly simple early Victorian chimneypiece in a softly mottled grey and white Carrara marble. The flat shelf rests over a plain shelf and jambs.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 1⁄8" 162.7 cms	47" 119.3 cms	10 1⁄8" 25.7 cms
Internal	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms	38 3⁄8" 97.5 cms

Stock: 6600

A beautifully simple warm hued stone fireplace. The wide shelf rests over the plain frieze and jambs, which are simply chamfered around the opening.
This fireplace would be perfect in a traditional country interior, but would also suit the simplicity of a more contemporary home too.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	57 1⁄2" 146 cms	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.7 cms
Internal	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 6598

A Large fireplace in a softly mottled Carrara marble. The serpentine shelf rests on generous corbels and canted jambs which flank the panelled frieze, centred by a keystone.

Belgian, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄4" 181 cms	49 3⁄16" 124.9 cms	17 1⁄8" 43.5 cms
Internal	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	39 1⁄8" 99.3 cms

Stock: 15368

A small Arts and Crafts three barred cast iron fire grate of organic form, with a curving backplate and standards reminiscent of a shepherd's crook. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms

Stock: 13942

A pair of small 20th-century cut glass chandeliers, with baluster stem supporting 8 swan neck branches each with drip tray, glass lustre drops throughout.

English, c.1950.

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	diameter	drop
Chandelier	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	19 1⁄2" 49.5 cms
With chain		35 3⁄16" 89.5 cms

Stock: 16028

A large pair of wonderfully ornate French ormolu andirons. They are beautifully cast, modelled as dragons with snake rings hung from their mouths.

French, late 19th century.

Photographed with 18" swan's nest basket, available separately.


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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 16556

A rare pair of large cast iron Handyside urns after the the Medici Vase. These urns were manufactured by the renowned Andrew Handyside & Co Foundry, and as illustrated in the catalogue, are a near pair, with a different subject to the bas-relief friezes. The right is a faithful copy to the original Medici Vase, now on display at the Uffizi in Florence. Both are mounted on their original pedestals.

English, c.1851.

Notes: The Handyside Foundry exhibited this model at the Great Exhibition of 1851, as it was, and still remains, one of the most popular subjects from antiquity.

Having returned from his uncle's engineering business in Russia, the young engineer Andrew Handyside took over the Britannia iron works in Derby in 1848, a foundry that was known for the quality of its casting, owing to the fine sand that could be found in the region. He made a wide range of materials in cast iron, from garden ornaments, to iron buildings and bridges.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Urn & Base	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms
Base	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 16011

19th Century Victorian metamorphic folding library steps in beautifully quartered oak. The shaped backrest is carved with a simple roundel very much in the Arts and Crafts style, and when inverted, forms a 3 step ladder.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 16558

A Regency Mahogany waterfall bookcase. Beneath the simple scrolled broken pediment, the seven graduated shelves with crossbanded edges are flanked by scalloped waterfall ends, and supported on short turned legs.

English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30" 76.2 cms	72" 183 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16387

The most charming Regency bullseye fireplace in slate, which has been cut across the grain to make a feature of the natural striations in the stone. Ordinarily slate fireplaces of this period were painted, but this one was carefully made to showcase the beauty of the stone.
The slender, moulded shelf, sits over a cushion moulded frieze and jambs.

English, c.1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms	42 1⁄4" 107.5 cms	7 11⁄16" 19.6 cms
Internal	33 1⁄8" 84 cms	35 13⁄16" 91 cms

Stock: 15840

A large and rare neoclassical chimneypiece in a soft, honey toned sandstone. Very much in the manner of William Kent, and therefore Palladian in style, this grand chimneypiece bears a thick shelf carved with a bold egg and dart moulding and a delicately carved foliate undershelf. Both rest on a beautifully carved half-barrel frieze, with acanthus paterae carved in a cross-hatch arrangement, centred by a blank tablet. The half pilaster jambs with ionic capitals are carved with bead and reel details and enclose the flat crossette cornered ingrounds, with further egg and dart and leaf and dart mouldings.

English, mid-20th century.

Notes: William Kent was the preeminent architect of the early Georgian period and the father of Palladianism. His style was informed both by antiquity and the bold style of the Italian Baroque, which was introduced to him on his tour of Italy. He was the first British architect to consider the interior as part of the whole decorative scheme, and designed furniture and other the small details necessary to complete a room.

View our collection of: Antique Baroque Chimneypieces inc English, Italian, French, Flemish Bolection fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	75 1⁄2" 191.7 cms	59 13⁄16" 152 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	46 3⁄16" 117.3 cms

Stock: 16509

A fine Italian centre table with a wonderful top comprising concentric bands of bookmatched burr walnut. The outer ring is exquisitely decorated with marquetry crosshatching, which frames a wide band of burr walnut veneer. This in turn, encloses the central decoration of beautifully inlaid marquetry of a foliate design, each leaf shown delicately curled. This magnificent tabletop is mounted on a turned pedestal triform base, terminating in beautifully carved scallop feet.

A very useful table, perfect as a breakfast table, or a centre table.

Italian, possibly Sorrento, circa.1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms

Stock: 16314

A fine set of three antique Louis XVI style cast iron fireplace panels. The main central panel is decorated with a basket of flowers on a background of ivy, beneath ribbon tied swags of flowers, surrounded by a moulded border with floral paterae corners. The two side panels are decorated with trumpets and sheet music, hung on tasselled cords and ribbons with matching borders.

French, circa 1880. View our collection of: antique Firebacks

	Width	Height	Depth
Main Panel	31" 78.7 cms	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms
Side Panels	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms

Stock: 16518

A very ornate and large Louis XV style giltwood overmantel mirror with a beautifully carved frame. The ornate frame comprises slender foliate pilasters, which support a grand pediment embellished with acanthus scrollwork and a floral crest, whilst enclosing marginal plates.
A very decorative Rococo revival mirror.

English, c.1950.

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	Width	Height
	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	74 13⁄16" 190 cms

Stock: 16495

A fine pair of 19th century Imari vases and covers.

Each with a bell shaped cover over the body, sweeping to a slightly chamfered rim. The covers with panels of flowers, the finials or decorative knobs on the lids are in the form of a guardian lion, also known as a shishi. The vase tapering to a small proud foot rim. The bodies decorated with abundant flowers and foliage, against a scrolled flower background.

Japanese, circa 1850.

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	Diameter	Height
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 16501

A very large and grand Venetian overmantel mirror. The frame is profusely decorated with c scrolls and floral flourishes, and is surmounted by a mirrored cartouche with a rocaille surmount. The original gilding is beautifully worn, with the warm red bole glowing through.

Italian, 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
top	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
bottom	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 16488

A fine George III giltwood and carton-pierre wall mirror in the manner of James and Robert Adam. The slender frame encloses the rectangular plate and is surmounted by opposing griffins centred by a slender urn and ears of wheat.

English, c.1770. Provenance: The Estate of the late Sir George Dowty (1901-1975, inventor, engineer and businessman) and Lady Marguerite Dowty, thence by family descent.

Notes: Carton-Pierre is effectively a type of papier mache, popularised in the 18th century for its ability to be moulded to create adornments for mirrors or even ceiling cornices, as a cheaper alternative to plaster.

Final image credit: Office of Robert and James Adam, 'Design for a Pier Glass, 1772, Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London”.

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	Width	Height
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	64 5⁄8" 164 cms

Stock: 16496

A pair of fine and large 19th Century Imari vases and covers. With a bell shaped cover, topped by an onion finial and finished with a flat overhanging rim. The finials are decorated with flower heads, between lattice panels repeated to the rim, the bell formed body with blooms and trees against a flower filled ground. The rim decoration repeated to the raised collars of the vases. The bodies with rounded shoulders as they taper to a raised foot rim. The shoulders decorated with flowers and scrolling foliage whilst the bodies are decorated with arcaded panels, filled with rising flowers. The reserves against a vibrant ground of flowers and foliage. The lower bodies with rising arcades filled with flowers and overlapping leaves. The foot rim with scrolling motifs.

Japanese, c.1850.

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	Diameter	Height
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

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Stock: 16281

An Edwardian small glass pendant light of bag form, strung with beads of graduating size from a moulded cup fitting.

English, c.1910.

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	Diameter	Drop
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 16330

An elegant late 19th century insert with Aesthetic movement metalwork, and neoclassical tiles in a cream and green colourway.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	38" 96.5 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 16471

A Rococo overmantel mirror in gilt gesso, with a moulded frame that has been beautifully gilded and slightly distressed to reveal the warm red bole underneath. This is surmounted by a Rocaille crest.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	64 1⁄4" 163.2 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 15549

A fine Victorian fender in bright steel and bronze, with a rope twist bar, and ornately cast brass brackets.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60 3⁄16" 153 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16486

A striking Napoleon III ebonised and parcel gilt mirror, with a bound laurel frame and acanthus corners enclosing marginal plates. The mirror has a beautifully modelled cartouche and laurel surmount.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	59 3⁄8" 150.8 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms