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Stock: 15666

A large pair of andirons modelled as female terms in the guise of temple attendants in the Egyptian Revival manner - after a late 18th century design by Thomas Hope.
These andirons currently do not have a back bar so can be used as decorative objects, or a back bar of an appropriate size can be made in our workshops if required.

English, circa 1810.

Shown with 18" swans nest basket but available separately in various sizes.

A pair with stock no. 9591.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 1⁄2" 11.5 cms	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms	4 1⁄4" 11 cms

Stock: 6599

An elegant 19th century fireplace in beautifully veined pencil statuary marble. The wide shelf rests over a frieze with a slow arch, which is flanked by wide plain jambs mounted with applied shield decorations.

English or Scottish, c.1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	71 1⁄4" 181 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	10 7⁄8" 27.8 cms
Internal	40 3⁄8" 102.6 cms	39" 99 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: 16550

A wide and low Empire fireplace in a buttery crema Valencia marble. The moulded shelf rests on a panelled frieze, with deep scrolling console jambs.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	60 13⁄16" 154.5 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms
Internal	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	32 5⁄8" 82.7 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: 6597

A small French chimneypiece in an unusual, creamy orange marble with coral veining. The softly rounded opening is surrounded by a panelled frieze and jambs, the simplicity of which lets the marble sing.

French, late 19th century.

The depth can be reduced if desired.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	15 11⁄16" 39.8 cms
Internal	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 16328

A charming neoclassical hob grate with integral reeded panels, and a finely cast decoration to the front.

English, c.1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	10" 25.5 cms

Stock: 16034

A fine cast iron neoclassical hob grate of neoclassical design with integral back and side plates. Very much in the Adam style.

English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	43 1⁄4" 110 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 16429

A charming pair of heraldic fire dogs, likely estate made. The hand forged dogs are mounted with a beautifully detailed armorial, still showing traces of the original gilding.

English, 18th century. Awaiting further research.

Second image shown with 18" swans nest grate, available separately in various widths.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each	11" 28 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	25 5⁄8" 65 cms

Stock: 16215

A pair of tall and grand fire dogs or andirons in brass. Obelisk in form the tapering brass andirons rest on scrolled feet in the Baroque style.

Likely English, mid-19th century.

Provenance: Langdale Chase Hotel.

Second image shown with 18" swans nest grate, available separately in various widths.
Brass can be polished if desired.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms	28 1⁄8" 71.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 16544

A very fine Piedmontese giltwood pier mirror. This beautiful mirror has a wonderfully patinated arched mercury plate, which is enclosed by a slender marginal plate of the same glass. The refined rocaille frame is topped by the most magnificent pierced scrollwork crest, and the whole is raised on sweeping acanthus feet.

Piedmont, c.1750.

This mirror would be magnificent over a fireplace, or a console table.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	71 11⁄16" 182 cms	2 3⁄8" 6 cms

Stock: 16535

A fine cast iron register grate. This insert is loosely Rococo in style, with foliate c-scrolls and acanthus embellishments to the opening, which borders the two-barred grate.

English, diamond mark registration for 1858.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms	36" 91.5 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16559

A grand late Regency overmantel mirror of exceptional quality. The giltwood frame is richly embellished with acanthine and scrollwork decoration, with a particularly magnificent crest. This encloses the original silvered plate.

English, c.1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	60" 152.5 cms	72 3⁄8" 184 cms	4 11⁄16" 12 cms

Stock: 16517

A very fine 19th century desk very much in the manner of Gillows. This is a piece of exceptional quality, with a burr walnut veneer strung with satinwood marquetry to the top, the drawers and the pedestal. The breakfront top is inset with a tooled leather writing surface, bordered by brass beading, above a central secrétaire drawer, supported by elegant ebonised parcel-gilt pilasters and flanked by ten further locking doors. The desk alludes to the Aesthetic Movement style, but is not overtly so.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 15648

An elegant chimneypiece of a good size in a pure white statuary marble with Siena marble ingrounds. The inverse breakfronted shelf rests over a crisply fluted frieze, which is mounted with a tablet, deftly carved with a reclining figure holding a harp. This detail is echoed on the endblocks, which are decorated with a foliate lyre and trumpets. These are mounted over the slender scrolling console jambs.
An interesting chimneypiece, spanning the stylistic gap between the Georgian and Regency periods.

English, c.1810, with restorations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	67 3⁄8" 171.3 cms	52 7⁄8" 134.4 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms
Internal	42 7⁄8" 109 cms	40 11⁄16" 103.5 cms

Stock: 15512

A good sized and very charming Gothic Revival fender in cast iron and brass. The cast and pierced quatrefoil decoration is bordered by bands of brass, and the corners are mounted with stylised hart's tongue ferns, over brass bun feet.

English, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	52 13⁄16" 134 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms	15 5⁄8" 39.5 cms

Stock: 16420

A pair of charming 19th century garden urns in terracotta, with a fruiting vine around the rim and gadrooned bowls.

English, c.1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	15" 38 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 16178

A set of three Scottish fireclay urns of campana form by Garnkirk Fireclay Works. The urns are simply decorated with leaf tip mouldings to the rim, gadrooned bodies mounted with loop handles.
They would look wonderful on plinths, or perhaps mounted on a wall.
Scottish, c.1860. Garnkirk, stamped to base.

The Garnkirk Fireclay Works was a renowned maker of bricks and decorative objects in the 19th century. Their clay was renowned for its durability and also light colour, making it a leader in the field of manufacture of garden urns.

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	Diameter	Height
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 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: 16511

A rare mid-19th century Italian beadwork circular wine table. The glass covered and brightly coloured geometric and foliate patterned beadwork top is executed using tiny glass and metal beads individually sewn onto a fabric backing, this is contained within a deeply moulded walnut frame, raised on a turned central column supported by three scrolled and carved legs.

Italian, circa 1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 14742

A pair of grand and extremely tall early 20th century scagliola urns in the Neoclassical style, each with twin black lion masks mounted to the sides, and raised on scagliola column plinths with black marble bases.
English, circa 1920.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall	22" 56 cms	83 1⁄8" 211 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms
Urn	22" 56 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 16541

An exceptionally fine and rare pair of Venetian giltwood mirrors or pier glasses. Mirrors of this type, especially those in an original pair are vanishingly rare. Their gilded giltwood frames take an organic form, the whole carved with rocaille, c-scrolls and floral embellishments, with a mirrored rocaille crest. This Rococo design encloses the more traditional frames that are the signature of the Venetian style, which in turn borders the most magnificently patinated original mercury plates.

Italian, c.1760.

Provenance: From a palazzo in Venice.

Notes: It is likely that this pair of mirrors was made on the island of Murano, known as the 'Isle of Glass'. It has been the centre of fine glassmaking for centuries.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	54 1⁄2" 138.5 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 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: 12539

An Edwardian gate post finial modelled as an eagle in composition stone, on a rectangular plinth. Attractively patinated and verdigreed with well defined carved detail. English, early 20th century.

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		height
		36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 16070

A pair of rustic French cast iron garden urns, with traces of the original painted finish. Would look fabulous raised on pedestals.

French, c.1880.

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	Diameter	Height
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 16530

A set of two black painted cast iron garden urns on stands, attributed to the Handyside Foundry. This set of campana urns with flared lobed rims, have lovely acanthine foliate embellishments to the body, over gadrooned socles. They are mounted with mask and loop handles. The plinths are simply decorated with bound laurel wreaths.

English, mid 19th century.

Notes: The renowned American landscape gardener, writer and horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) speaks fondly of the garden urn stating,“There are few objects that may, with so much good effect, be introduced into the scenery of pleasure grounds, surrounding a tasteful villa, as the vase in its many varied forms.”

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	Width	Height	Depth
Urn & Base	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	44" 111.8 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Base	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	19 13⁄16" 50.3 cms

Stock: 12695

A really unusual and beautiful roof ventilator manufactured by Ewarts & Son with the most wonderful verdigris patina. Whilst originally used to improve air circulation, today it would be a beautiful decorative centrepiece in the garden, or as a roof finial.

English, c.1890.

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Stock: 16376

A pair of early 20th Century cast iron pedestal planters with a fantastic paint finish.

English, c.1900.

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	Width	Height
	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 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: 16519

An interesting Louis Philippe period overmantel mirror with an elegant water gilded frame, enclosing a mercury plate. The frame is topped by a later surmount, ornately carved with ribbon tied wheat, vines and fruit, centred by an urn.

French, mid-19th century and later.

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	Width	Height
	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	66 1⁄8" 168 cms

Stock: 16399

A grand terracotta style composition garden urn in the form of the Warwick Vase, after the antique popularised by 18th century collectors. This piece is large in size and a beautifully modelled copy of the Roman original, and can be displayed both outside and in.

English, mid 20th century.

Notes: The Warwick Vase was excavated from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, and dates to the second century AD. Hamilton sold the vase to his nephew, the 2nd Earl of Warwick, who built a specially commissioned conservatory in the grounds of Warwick Castle to house it.

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	Width	Height
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 16522

A fine and large Irish William IV convex mirror. The original convex plate is enclosed within a reeded slip, which is bordered by an ornate giltwood frame which is mounted with acanthus scrollwork, bunches of grapes, a sunflower and twin candleholders. Most unusually, the surmount depicts a stag resting under an oak tree. Mounted with wired girandoles.

Irish, c.1830.

Similar to stock no. 16491.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms

Stock: 16182

A pair of Victorian painted cast iron garden urns or planters, with scrolled rims over gadrooned bodies, raised on cast iron plinths.

Victorian, c.1890.

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	Diameter	Height
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 16091

A fine pair of 19th century cast iron twin handled garden urns or planters. The elegant urns have egg and dart rims over baluster bodies, and rope twist handles to the side.

English, c.1880.

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	Diameter	Height
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms