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Stock: 14384

A pair of Baroque style polished brass models of the Marley Horses after Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1677-1746).

English, early 20th century.

Notes: The original pair were carved in Carrara Marble and were over three meters high and were commissioned in 1739 for the park of the Chateau De Marly. They were moved in 1795 to the Place de la Concord in Paris where they remained for two centuries but were moved again in 1985 to the Marly Sculpture Courtyard at the Louvre Museum and a concrete pair replaced them in the Place de la Concord. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	7 11⁄16" 19.5 cms

Stock: 14286

A pair of fine marble resin relief plaques, in ornate carved giltwood frames, after the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy, (1594 to 1644). Copies of the originals made in Paris in the late 19th century. Each depicts Neoclassical scenes of nymphs and cloud-borne putti. One of the figures is probably that of Venus rising from the sea. Each is signed Francois Duquesnoy Paris 1892. The reverse of each bears a bronze medallion with the words Virges Acquirit Eundo ( which roughly translates as We gather strength as we go) and Lutet Parisi M.D. CC.XVIL. In good condition.
French, dated 1892

Notes: Medallion - A depiction of Fame, flying towards a rising sun, sounding one of her trumpets, to which is attached a banner and in her other hand she holds another trumpet.

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	width	height
	11" 28 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 12880

A delightful, early and rare Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) charity collection box of a dog painted brown and seated on a green painted base. The dog looks to be carved in resin. A collection box hangs around his neck bearing the words 'The RSPCA Invites Your Support' and the green base states that 'A coin will ring the bell'. Happily the bell still rings when you drop a coin in the box. These collection boxes would have stood in doorways of shops to catch the eye of passers by.
English, late 19th century.

Notes: The Charity was founded in 1824 in a London coffee shop. It was the world's first animal welfare charity. and was originally called the SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Royal patronage followed in 1837 and Queen Victoria gave permission to add the royal R in 1840, making it the RSPCA as it is known worldwide today.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms

Stock: 11203

A green painted wrought iron four seater Victorian garden bench in the Georgian manner. Photo before restoration.
English, circa 1890.

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	width	height	depth
	72" 183 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 12185

A pair of very large corbelled European Pine brackets or jambs carved in the Baroque manner with elaborately acanthus detail and each terminating in differing Green Man Masks. Possibly once part of a large fireplace. French, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	60" 152.5 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 13277

A large Edwardian terracotta garden urn attributed to the Garnick Fireclay Company, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The body with ribbon-tied oak leaf bands on lobed undersides above a waisted socle and square section base, the base stamped with the name Garnick. Probably once one of a pair.
Scottish, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms

Stock: 9752

An elegant, understated and refined English Regency chimneypiece in white Statuary Marble. The moulded shelf supported on finely fluted panelled jambs under triple carved circular rosettes on the endblocks.

English, circa 1830.

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	width	height	depth
External	73 3⁄8" 186.5 cms	46 3⁄8" 117.8 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	49 13⁄16" 126.5 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms

Stock: 10438

A large and rare, English Rococo, finely carved Statuary Marble tablet of the infant Eros asleep under trees on a bank beside a river in an Elysian landscape set within scrolling borders. It may have once been the central feature on the frieze of a grand chimneypiece. The last image, rather blurred I'm afraid, shows a similar tablet that was from a chimneypiece in Blair Castle, in Pitlochry Scotland.
Carved by Thomas Carter, English, c.1755.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	3" 7.5 cms

Stock: 15260

A striking 19th Century serpentine brass and steel fender, with a geometric pierced decoration framed with bands of brass. English, c.1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	54 1⁄8" 137.5 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Internal	52 3⁄16" 132.5 cms

Stock: 15248

A fine Regency steel and brass register grate. The top and sides are mounted with acanthus clad turned brass rods which slot into the bullseye endblocks and footblocks. The recessed, bowfronted toothed grate sits above a brass apron embellished with a pair of opposing seated griffin amid anthemion and foliate scroll motifs. English, early 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	40" 101.5 cms	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 15249

A pair of very tall Baroquqe style bronze and steel andirons with lobed mask finials above baluster columns with triform bases raised on large twin scrolled iron feet.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms

Stock: 11363

An attractive demi lune, inlaid wood marquetry panel depicting eighteenth century figures in silhouette taking tea al fresco in a Fete Champetre landscape. This type of panel would have been made for use in the trade to illustrate different woods for the perusal of clients. English, circa 1930.

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	width	height	depth
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.5 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 14124

A pair of cast iron Victorian fireplace panels with panelled geometric motifs each centred by a cherub mask in the Neoclassical style.
English, circa 1700.

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	width	height	depth
	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 15114

A Georgian style brass fireplace fender with integral tool rests. The bar, with cut alternating foliate and arch detail, is surmounted a pair.of fine, classically styled, leaf wrapped, large lidded urn finials draped with swags and masks topped by clusters of fruit. English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms
Max width	56 1⁄4" 143 cms

Stock: 9500

A charming mahogany Regency overmantel mirror with attached Tuscan columns either side of the original plate glass, supporting a stepped cornice.
English, 1830.
Provenance: The Old Rectory, Rivenhall, near Colchester.

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	width	height	depth
	45 11⁄16" 116 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 15246

A high backed Adam style cast iron hob grate with classical figural and foliate decoration, the backplate set with boldly figured rosette roundels.
English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 15250

A pair of decorative Edwardian polygon shaped stained glass window panels each with a central florally styled motif. English, circa 1910.

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	width	height
	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 8153

A very large Baroque style Victorian bolection chimneypiece in darkly hued Ashburton Marble. The wide simply moulded shelf rests above a deep panelled frieze beneath which is a flat moulded bolection surround centred by a keystone supported on integral footblocks. English, circa 1850.

Image before restoration.

Ashburton Marble: In 1852 a Devon newspaper 'The Western Times', reported that some large blocks of marble had been excavated from quarries adjoining the ancient Stannary Town of Ashburton. It was suggested at the time that the marble be used for the making of chimneypieces as the veins and colour were considered very decorative and superior to that found in any other quarry in South Devon.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	90 3⁄16" 229 cms	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	8 1⁄8" 20.5 cms
Internal	66 1⁄8" 168 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 15197

A tall cast iron pictorial fireback, with a typical Dutch style high shaped back, depicting Greek soldiers in a rural setting beneath a swagged shell and framed by floral and foliate detail. Dutch, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms

Stock: 14950

An early 20th century Neoclassical style Statuary and Sienna Marble chimneypiece. The Sienna panelled frieze beneath the stepped moulded shelf is centred by a carved Statuary Marble plaque depicting Venus and Cupid. Finely carved floral paterae adorn the endblocks above tapering, panelled Sienna columns on the jambs. English, circa 1930.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61 1⁄4" 155.7 cms	51 1⁄2" 130.8 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.6 cms
Internal	36 1⁄8" 91.8 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 15207

A smart set of Victorian steel firetools consisting of a shovel, a pair of tongs and a poker. shafts. Each with barley twist shafts and facted knopped handles. The spade of the shovel is cut in an oval stylised floral design. English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	6 3⁄16" 15.8 cms	29 11⁄16" 75.5 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms

Stock: 14868

A monumental Regency stoneware urn, in the manner of the antique. This magnificent urn recalls the form of an Ancient Greek krater - a large vessel for mixing wine. The entire urn is dedicated to the God of Wine Bacchus (Dionysus), with a band of fruiting vines to the neck, underneath which is high-relief frieze depicting a Bacchic procession or thiasus, with revellers carrying cups of wine, bunches of grapes and the other trappings of a hedonistic feast. The serpents fashioned into handles are characteristic of Bacchic iconography and they are often associated with Bacchus, as Maenads - female followers of the God - wore snakes in their hair.

This urn is unlike any other we have come across, but echoes the popularity of themes from classical antiquity, made even more popular by the phenomenon of the Grand Tour. The great engraver and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi even produced an engraved volume solely dedicated to the designs of urns in the antique style. He then manufactured urns in his Italian workshops. In England, the famous manufacturer Eleanor Coade and designers such as Thomas Hope also produced urns in the antique manner for an eager public.

The urn is made from a weather impervious stoneware, similar to the famous Coade stone. Restoration to the handles has been carried out.


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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms
Base	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 14650

A serpentine fronted cast iron and brass antique fire grate in the late Georgian manner of Thomas Elsley of London. The a high shaped backplate is centred by an oval medallion surrounded with ribbons and swags of bellflowers. The bow fronted three bar grate, surmounted by a pair of fine urn finials above applied brass ropes of descending bellflowers flanked by sunburst designs, is supported by a pair of tall out-swept bulbous stemmed standards raised on splayed feet. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Back width	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 14207

An unusually tall and elegant Louis XV style Rococo antique fireplace, including a decorative insert, in richly veined Saint Anne marble. The deeply moulded serpentine shelf is set above the panelled frieze, centred by a carved Rococo clam shell cartouche, flanked by smaller shell endblock over tall angled, scrolled and panelled console jambs.
French, late 19th century.

Note. The last two images show the fireplace with the later decorative steel and brass insert on a wooden frame. It is not suitable for use with a real fire.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61" 155 cms	50" 127 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.5 cms
Internal	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	43 11⁄16" 111 cms

Stock: 7566

A grand 17th century Italian bolection fireplace, carved from a beautiful Rosso Verona marble. The scrolled bracketed frieze supporting a large moulded shelf over a deeply moulded Bolection on plain footblocks. A near pair available.

Italian, 17th century bolection surmounted by a later entabluture and shelf.

Provenance: From an Italian Palazzo.

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	width	height	depth
external	81" 205.7 cms	75 11⁄16" 192.4 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms
internal	56 3⁄16" 142.8 cms	51 3⁄8" 130.5 cms

Stock: 15211

A pair of unusually large and highly ornate Gothic Revival brass firetools consisting of a poker and a pair of tongs with cut barley twist and cruciform handles and a plain shaped shovel. English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	4 13⁄16" 12.2 cms	33 11⁄16" 85.5 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms

Stock: 15137

A 20th century Coalbrookdale style garden bench. Entwined serpents and vines enhance the cast iron bench ends with hand rests terminating in hound dog heads. The back and seat are hardwood possibly mahogany.
English, mid 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Larger	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms
Smaller	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 12172

A boldly carved Gothic Revival composition stone chimneypiece. The frieze, set beneath a generous moulded shelf with deeply carved Gothic tracery echoed on the jambs, is flanked by stylised turret endblocks above further turret styled corbels on the jambs which rest on simple moulded foot blocks. Once a pair with SNo 12171 now sold.
English mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	61 5⁄8" 156.5 cms	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms
	35" 89 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 10848

A Tudor Revival limestone fireplace surround with a moulded, stepped shelf above a Tudor arched opening and with oak leaf and acorn carved detail on the spandrels.
English 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	45 7⁄8" 116.5 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	32 1⁄2" 82.5 cms

Stock: 15230

An ornate four fold leather backed screen with painted panels held by leather bands and metal stud work. Each panel is painted in the Baroque manner with depictions of birds, vines and flowers within decorative borders. The panels are almost certainly 19th century or earlier and have been re-lined and mounted on the later screen which is backed with leather panels.
19th century, possibly Italian or Spanish.

Provenance: Hadspen House, Castle Cary, Somerset.

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	Width overall	Height
	83 7⁄8" 213 cms	91 11⁄16" 233 cms

Stock: 15149

A Victorian Neoclassical style cast iron fire surround with a fluted frieze and a central floral plaque. English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	9 1⁄4" 23.5 cms
Internal	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms

Stock: 15504

A large framed and well painted 19th Century oil on canvas still life, by Charles Stuart 1838-1907, of a selection of exotic fruit and flowers in two wicker baskets set upon a rustic wooden table. Signed Charlie Stuart on the left hand corner of the table, it's presented in a good period gilt wood and composition frame. This well composed and executed painting has a craquelure throughout commensurate with its age and a small well done old repair to the upper left corner.
English, Circa 1865.

Charles Stuart was born in 1838 to William and Amelia Stuart, who were both artists. He was a prolific painter first exhibiting at the British Institution at the age of 16 focusing on still-life painting in his early years before switching solely to landscapes in 1871. Successful, he exhibited widely including more than forty works at the Royal Academy. Today his works can be found in public collections among them the Manchester and the Southampton City art galleries.

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	Width	Height
Canvas	36" 91.5 cms	28 1⁄8" 71.5 cms
frame	46 7⁄8" 119 cms	39" 99 cms

Stock: 10933

A small and compact, late Georgian mahogany gentleman's dressing or toilet chest of drawers. Oak lined and cross banded on the front, the top lifts to reveal a slide mirror and various lidded and open compartments for dress accessories. The handles are 19th century in the 18th century Sheraton manner. English late 18th century.

Photos before restoration & polishing.

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	width	height	depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	36" 91.5 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 10763

A pair of large cast iron and brass firetool rests in the Egyptian Revival manner of Thomas Hope. Each in the form of monopodic pairs of lions rampant.
English early 19th century.

The firetools, SNo 14306, shown in the third image are not included.

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	width	height	depth
	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms	11" 28 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 14545

A Statuary Marble bust of a young woman purportedly by the French sculptor Jean-Paul Aubé (1837-1916). The name P. Aubé and the date 1885 can be seen carved on the back. French circa 1880.

Notes:Jean-Paul Aubé (3 July 1837 – 23 August 1916) was a French sculptor born in Longwy, North Eastern France and was once painted, together with his son, by Paul Gauguin.

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	width	height	depth
	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms