Stock: 15433

A superb Victorian walnut and solid ebony Gothic library table. This outstanding table is made especially rare by having solid ebony legs, stretcher and finials. The beautifully carved Solomonic legs and stretcher support a fine burr walnut top.

This table is incredibly diverse, and can be used as a centre table, or even a desk.
English, circa 1860.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	54 1⁄4" 138 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms

Stock: 15457

A William IV rosewood fold over tea table, the top is supported on a swivel action over an octagonal column which is mounted on a pedestal base with scroll feet. English, c.1830.

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	width	height	depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 15455

An early Regency twin pedestal sideboard in flame mahogany with a bowed tablet frieze which is flanked by two dovetailed drawers and a lower cupboard to the left, and a single dovetailed drawer mounted with a wine holder and lower cupboard to the right. The central frieze is fitted with two long drawers, the upper mounted with a central bullseye very much in the Regency manner. All drawers are mounted with brass ringed lion mask pulls. The drawers and cupboard fronts are solid mahogany, the rest of the carcass being constructed from oak. This sideboard is very much in the manner of John Soane. English or Scottish, c.1800.

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	width	height	depth
	72 3⁄8" 184 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 15242

A fine and elegant Regency four poster mahogany bed. The high shaped tester or canopy with a well carved egg and dart band is supported by two simple posts to the rear and by a pair of tapering columns with acanthus carved detail to the front raised on sturdy bun feet. The brass curtain rails and headboard are later. Bedding not included. English, circa 1810.

Notes: Four poster beds date back to the late 14th century and often served as important status symbols. Frequently also called ‘tester beds', they had curtains to the front and sides to keep in the heat and keep out drafts and sunlight.

	Width	Height	Depth
	88 3⁄16" 224 cms	84 1⁄4" 214 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms

Stock: 10413

A late William IV mahogany armchair with turned spindle uprights to the back, and upholstered cushion and armrests. Photos before restoration.
English, circa 1835.

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	width	height	depth
	26" 66 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms

Stock: 15431

A 19th century carved walnut French cabinet. The moulded top above a frieze of alternating diamond and corbel carved detail, beneath which in the upper section are three cupboards whose doors open to reveal double shelving. Each door, with ornate scrolled brass escutcheons, is finely carved with classical motif panels and is separated by slim columns. Twin pairs of which flank either side.

A pair of wide ribbed drawers, with large brass handles, supported by a pair or sturdy, fluted columns, separate the upper section from a twin cupboard lower section the doors of which are beautifully carved with ornate strapwork designs. The doors open to single shelving and the whole cupboard is raised on large bun feet.
French, circa 1880.

The last image shows the cupboard in natural light in our yard.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	61" 155 cms	73 5⁄8" 187 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 15315

A fine early Victorian, rosewood library table in the manner of the architect and designer Richard Bridgens(1785-1846).

The finely figured top, with a moulded edge above a framed carved baton and disc frieze and square paterae on each corner, is edged beneath with linked rows of pierced roundels. The table is supported on ornately carved baluster legs with sturdy splayed feet raised on brass castors and linked by a turned stretcher.
English, circa 1840.

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	width	height	depth
	50 3⁄8" 128 cms	31 1⁄4" 79.6 cms	27 3⁄16" 69.2 cms

Stock: 15426

A large Victorian fine mahogany breakfront bookcase and secretaire. The upper part has four compartments, the doors of which are glazed with their original plate glass revealing the adjustable shelving within, The doors themselves have ornate scrolls and leaf detail in the corners of the frames. The lower section divides into three parts. The central two door cupboard, bearing the same ornate scroll detail, is flanked by a pair of further plate glass glazed doors with ornate scroll detail.

Above the cupboard is a drawer like panel, with ebony inlaid pearl handles, which folds down to reveal the leather topped secretaire desk with six small drawers beneath a row of cubby holes.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	79 1⁄8" 201 cms	90 3⁄16" 229 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 15380

A fine William IV mahogany library bookcase with a moulded cornice above three glazed doors. The left and right doors are hinged, the central door slides. The cabinet base also features a central sliding door flanked by a pair of hinged doors and is raised on a plinth base.
English, early 19th century.

Interior depth for books 23 cm. Photo before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Exterior	74 13⁄16" 190 cms	92 1⁄2" 235 cms	16 1⁄2" 41.8 cms
Interior

Stock: 8205

A very large Baroque style canopy with hanging velvet drapes, with applied decorative detail, and edged with beaded, tasseled fringes. Possibly once the adornment of a large bed.
English, dated Dec 1929.

Some wear commensurate with age a/f.

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	width	height	depth
	72" 182.9 cms	48" 121.9 cms	18" 45.7 cms

Stock: 9236

A large Baroque style, five panel painted leather screen with romantic, elysian scenes set in foreign lands in the manner of Jean Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Each ecran, leaf painted with a gilt scroll reserved panel of figures in monochrome over profuse foliage with further land and seascape panels below.( Photo before restoration, cleaning and revival of paintings.
French 19th century.

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	Width	Height
Each Panel	24" 61 cms	77" 195.7 cms

Stock: 14965

A pair of Georgian painted chairs in their original paint with fitted squab cushions made from Mallorquin ticking. The seats have been re-caned.
English, circa 1780 (George III).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 7⁄8" 50.5 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 9235

A large four panelled, embossed leather Spanish room screen screen in the Baroque manner. The leather panels are richly embossed with fruit, foliage & scrolls highlighted in gilt & polychrome reminiscent of the Damascene motifs.
Condition commensurate with age and use.
Spanish, 18th century.

The leather panels could be removed to make 8 attractive, matching wall decorations.

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	each panel	height	depth
	26 5⁄8" 67.5 cms	78 3⁄8" 199.2 cms

Stock: 6591

A tall carved mahogany glazed bookcase or collectors cabinet in the Robert Adam late Georgian manner. There is a blind fret carved design on the cornice over two full length astragal glazed doors, with Rams heads carved on the lower apron, supported on Adam style carved shell cabrioles over ball and claw carved feet. English, late 19th century.

The interior to be silk lined in a James Hare silk fabric.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	63" 160 cms	86" 218.4 cms	17" 43.2 cms

Stock: 12499

A pair of William IV style mahogany armchairs. The deep-buttoned backs and stuffover seats upholstered in cherry red cowhide. The crinoline stretcher base connects the front turned legs to the splayed back legs all raised on brass castors. English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	24" 61 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	27 3⁄16" 69 cms

Stock: 15435

An antique Victorian mahogany, three door dresser, with two moulded draws, flanked by a pair of carved corbels. The central doors on both the upper and lower cupboards are fixed, with only the outer doors opening. All are set beneath a moulded cornice, over a plain frieze with a further pair of carved corbels
Welsh, Circa 1860.

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	width	height	depth
	62 3⁄8" 158.5 cms	92 1⁄2" 235 cms	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms

Stock: 15285

A Regency early Victorian style mahogany window seat or hall bench with turned and rolled end supports and raised on six turned tapering legs.
English, late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	65 7⁄8" 167.5 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms

Stock: 15286

A rare metamorphic, George III mahogany triple top table. This D shaped Georgian table folds out firstly as a tea table and then to a games table with 4 counter wells. The elegant leaves rest on tapered legs which terminate in pad feet. English, circa 1780.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 5⁄8" 75.2 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms

Stock: 15287

An early 20th century burr walnut serpentine pedestal desk, containing an arrangement of nine short dovetailed drawers, which rest on shapely cabriole legs. Original green tooled leather top. English, c.1910.

	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31" 78.8 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms
Knee hole	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 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: 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: 14972

A grand, golden oak Gothic Revival buffet attributed to the designer Charles Bevan for C. Hindley and Sons, 19th century London furniture dealers. The mirrored galleried back, topped by pineapple finials, sits above a deep shelf supported on quatrefoil pierced brackets under which is a wide worktop. The triple doors beneath open to reveal a double shelved cupboard and a racked storage area. C. Hindley & Sons, 134, Oxford Street, London is stamped on the back. English, circa 1870.

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Charles Bevan (1820s-1882) was an English Gothic Revival designer. The patterns of his designs defined him as a master craftsman in the Geometric style. He worked with a number of furniture manufacturers and designers, including Gillows, J. P. Seddon & Hindley & Sons and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1867.

Charles A Hindley & Son cabinet makers and furniture dealers, were established in 1773 at 31 to 32 Berners Street later moving in 1844 to 134, Oxford Street, London. The firm existed until 1916 when it was absorbed into Marshall and Snelgrove.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 15177

A sturdy and comfortable bombe shaped Art Deco wicker armchair stained in the traditional apple green and with diamond pattern motif. English, 1920's.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 10153

A charming and decorative Victorian triple arched embossed leather screen mounted on an wooden frame with striking hand painted floral decoration of lilies of the field, water lilies, irises & bull rushes on the panels. English, circa 1870.

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	width	height	depth
Overall	59 3⁄8" 151 cms	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 14997

An antique walnut Victorian canterbury with a single drawer and bobbin turned spindles. Four small knopped finials surmount the burr walnut top rail and the whole is supported on turned legs with their original brass and porcelain cup castors. English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22" 56 cms	19 1⁄2" 49.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 14554

An impressive and large baptismal font entirely carved from Ashburton Marble. This is a soft grey and blush pink, lightly veined marble with evidence of fossil remains of creatures, principally corals, crinoids and brachiopods, that lived in the Devonian Sea 360-380 million years ago, It was quarried in Devon in the west of England mainly during the 19th century. The deep, round font bowl sits on a sturdy circular column and is further supported by four tall Ashburton and Swedish Green Marble pillars. The whole font rests on it's original, octagonal stone base. English, late 19th century.

Notes: Ashburton Marble is more accurately a form of limestone and not a true marble but was described as such as it was capable of taking a high polish resembling marble. It was brought to prominence in the Victorian era. 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. It featured in many of of the great houses, buildings and churches throughout the country including Salisbury Cathedral. This marble was still being quarried at the Linhay Quarry into the late 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
font bowl	28 1⁄2" 72.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms
overall	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	44 3⁄16" 112.2 cms

Stock: 11268

THE EMPEROR'S BED

A grand and impressive, large and rare Portuguese emperor-sized mahogany bed carved from copper hued Honuduras mahogany. The head and the foot are of the same height and each is centred by a large stylised, gadrooned urn festooned with bellflowers and flanked by two smaller urns flanked by pairs of tall decorative spindles. All are carved on both sides.

The scrolled and leaf carved top bars are surmounted by carved lattice work panels. The bed is supported on four sturdy cabriole legs resting on lion paw and ball feet. It is held together by four massive threaded bolts operated by a key.
Portuguese, circa 1890.

Preliminary images prior to revival of polish.

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	width	length
External	78 11⁄16" 200 cms	91 11⁄16" 233 cms
Internal	71 1⁄2" 181.5 cms	81 1⁄2" 207 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: 14298

An octagonal Arts & Crafts antique oak font with a fine inset silvered bowl covered by a lid and a deeply carved acanthus, rosette and vine frieze set above eight arcaded panels, supported on a column resting on a spreading ogee base. One of the panels bears a commemorative plaque the dedication of which says:
" To the Glory of God. This font was gifted to Newington United Free Church, Edinburgh by Miss Alison Telford on the 16th January 1924, her eightieth birthday. She was the first girl baptised in this church 1844 ".
Scottish, early 20th century.

Provenance: Newington United Free Church, now the Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, Edinburgh

Notes: The Queen’s Hall has been at the heart of music making in Edinburgh since 1979 when, after a public appeal, the Church of Newington and St Leonards was bought and converted into a 900 seat concert hall . Since then it has become known internationally as the setting for the much loved Edinburgh International Festival Morning Concerts and an ideal space for chamber music.

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	width	height
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	37" 94 cms

Stock: 14299

A very decorative and unusual Arts & Crafts antique oak pedestal. The moulded square top is set above four carved panelled sides raised on a moulded plinth base. Each panel has a medieval figure carved in high relief representing the four seasons of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Provenance: Originally from Ravensby Hall in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland.
Circa 1900.

Notes: Ravensby Hall, with its turrets, bays, and gables built in the 1870s for The Thomson family of Dundee, is an elegant country house incorporating both Gothic and Scottish Baronial styles. The Thomson family had acquired their wealth through the 19th century, initially in shipping, and then later by expanding into publishing, buying the Dundee Courier in 1886. Ravensby Hall was intended as their country retreat, befitting a family of their status in Scottish society.

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	width	height	depth
	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms

Stock: 11412

An Arts & Crafts four sectioned antique panelled walnut & leather room screen to stop the draughts. Each section with gilt tooled leather panels, depicting cherubs cavorting amongst a cacophony of fruits, foliage and birds, set with walnut frames beneath a galleried walnut cornice.
English late 19th century.

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	width	height
	94 1⁄2" 240 cms	74 13⁄16" 190 cms

Stock: 13757

A fine and slender carved wood and applied gesso jardiniere with a mirrored top and delicately carved figures of the Three Graces. Their arms are linked around the foliate decorated column which is supported on a tripod of large carved scrolled feet.
English late 19th century.

Notes: There are some small cracks and wear commensurate with age.

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	Width	Height
	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms

Stock: 13528

A large Arts and Crafts Neo Gothic oak dinner gong and stand, in the manner of Howard & Sons, with carved quatrefoil stretchers complete with striker.
English, 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	37 3⁄16" 94.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms

Stock: 12884

A carved oak Eagle Lectern. The hexagonal base carved " Dei Gloria in Memoriam " God's glory in memory, Edwin James Taylor Died 5th February 1931, with Gothic tracery.
English 1930s.

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	width	height	depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	64" 162.5 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 11597

An Aesthetic brass and cast iron stick stand with a central embossed brass panel depicting a bird perched on a branch.
English circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	28" 71 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms