Decorative Antiques & Furnishings - Exceptional London Antiques

Stock: 14967

A large and rare glazed turquoise ceramic urn and stand in the Egyptian manner designed by Christopher Dresser and made by the Linthorpe Art Pottery in Middlesborough.

The urn is stamped with the maker's name on the base, along with the number 2253, and can also be seen on the inside of the base of the stand along with the number 2058. Both are shown in the tenth image below. Please note one of the handles has been restored and there is a restored chip to the rim. English, c.1880.

Notes: Linthorpe Art Pottery ran for just ten years from 1879 to 1889. It was started by John Harrison at the suggestion of Christopher Dresser, the prominent designer. Dresser supplied many designs for the pottery. Henry Tooth ran the pottery until 1882, when he left to set up Bretby Art Pottery with William Ault he was succeeded at Linthorpe by Richard Patey.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms	52 3⁄8" 133 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 13631

A large Art Nouveau stoneware jardiniere and stand made by Doulton of Lambeth with stylised lotus and rosette.
English circa 1910.

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	diameter	height
jardiniere	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
stand	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms

Stock: 15048

A large and fine pair of porcelain armorial lidded vases with meticulously hand painted molded and enamelled family crests and foliate decoration made by Edmé Samson (b Paris, 1810; d Paris, 1891), and were probably intended to be used as ginger jars. French, circa.1870.

Notes: Edmé Samson was the founder of the ceramics firm Samson, Edmé et Cie established in Paris in the 1840's. His Chinese style makers mark can been seen at the base.

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	diameter	height
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	12" 30.5 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: 11745

A large and striking composition on board sculpted plaque in the Egyptian Revival manner featuring triumphant Egypto-Greco warriors in battle formation, led by a mounted commander and urged on by female deities or royal maidens. Signed on the back - Montage by S.R. Bennett Jan 1970.
Mid to late 20th century.

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	width	height
	71" 180.3 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 11125

A decorative antique carved and painted wood pediment, cornice or ornamental hanging, in the Baroque style, set within an ebonised carved and pierced scrollwork frame, with a central carved a gilded sunburst flanked by two phoenix, the mythical bird that rose from the ashes thus symbolising renewal.
Mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	63" 160 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 11714

Antique cast iron portrait roundel of Vasco da Gama(1460 - 1524), a Portuguese count and one of the world's greatest explorers being the first European to reach India by sea thus linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean via the Atlantic and the Indian oceans leading the way to the Orient.
English circa 1890.

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	Diameter		Depth
	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms		1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms

Stock: 10393

A well carved, antique Victorian oak frieze panel in the Rennaisance Revival manner with scrolling detail depicting winged and forked tongued Dragons or Griffins set within with floral decorative detail, the central scrolled shield displaying the initials WCH 1897.
English 1897.

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	width	height
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 11980

A large and attractive polished copper repoussé roundel of the Arts & Crafts period. The central circular panels full of foliate motifs and birds, probably finches, within a stylised daisy held within beaded frame and with further finches amongst trailing foliage around the rim.
English early 20th century.

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	diameter	depth
	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 10104

A small cast iron antique Coat of Arms of Bournemouth Borough Council whose large coastal resort lies on the south coast of Hampshire in England. The Arms were granted on 24th March 1891 and quarterly depict a Cross Flory between a Lion rampant holding a Rose between the paws in the first and fourth quar­ters, six Martlets in the second and four quarters and Salmon naiant in the third. The crest with a knights helmet beneath a wreath upon a mount depicting a tree and four emblematic roses.
The Motto 'Pulchritudeo et Salubritas' at the base translates as 'Beauty & Health' or 'Handsome is as Handsome does'.
English late 19th century.

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	width	height	Depth
	8 1⁄2" 21.5 cms	15" 38 cms	1" 2.5 cms

Stock: 13589

A pair of small burnished iron Art Deco console table bases in the Egyptian Revival manner, depicting a Princess or Danceuse
delicately poised with arms raised to support a demi-lune / half round
glass or marble top.
English, 1930s.

NOTES : With 1930s romantic Hollywood connotations, but also faint echoes of the eras of the Pharoahs, the Pashas and the Princesses...even reaching back to distant Aztec "cousins".

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 13⁄16" 37.5 cms	27 7⁄8" 70.8 cms	14" 35.5 cms

Stock: 13422

A large antique cast iron convex roundel depicting a Bacchanalian rural scene of celebration. An angel holds a halo above the head of a women greeting a kneeling man and attended by Mercury and Cupid. The couple are surrounded by a throng with carousing figures, cherubs, horseback riders and mythological beings in the sky. A pair of caryatids bearing baskets of fruit upon their heads frame the scene.
French possibly late 19th century.

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	Radius
	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 13291

An very attractive Doulton Lambeth, saltglazed Lambeth stoneware Jardiniere stand, in the Art Nouveau manner. There would have been a matching bowl similar to the one in image 4 below.
English circa 1910.

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	Top diameter	Height	Base diameter
	8" 20.4 cms	30 3⁄8" 77.3 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 12058

A large antique cast iron wall figure in the Greek Revival manner of a young kneeling Greek Warrior or Herald holding a horn.
English late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms

Stock: 12431

A very large Arts and Crafts aluminium Lion Rampant believed to have been part of an external wall decoration removed from the external wall of an Inn.
Scottish 1930s.

Notes: Casting of monuments and works of art in aluminium is a practice first used for Alfred Gilbert's statue of Eros, actually Anteros, the Greek God of Requited Love who was placed in the middle of Piccadilly Circus in London, in 1893. The gilded eagle over the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square by sculptor Theodor Rozac is in the same vein.

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	Width	height	Depth
	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	57 1⁄8" 145 cms	5 1⁄8" 13 cms

Stock: 12615

A pair of cast iron 20th century replica field cannon in the 17th century style, each with a ribbed barrel mounted on a foliate cast carriage running on twin spoked wheels.
English, early 20th century.

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	Length	height
	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 12558

An antique Gothic Revival carved and painted wooden jardiniere, with four foliate pine cone scroll supports to the upper section, painted in green, gold, blue & red.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height
	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	55 1⁄2" 141 cms

Stock: 11897

A rare walnut laminated aircraft two bladed propeller, the markings denoting that it was intended for the Isotta Francini 7 370 HP engine powering an early 1930's Italian Piaggio Seaplane. There was much cross licensing between aero engine and propeller manufactures and this one greatly resembles designs by Dr H.C.Watts of the Weybridge Airscrew Co of the 1930s. They made the two bladed propellers for the first Hurricanes and Spitfires, which during the course of WW II graduated to 3 and 4 bladed higher performance propellers made by ROTOL an alliance between Rolls Royce and Bristol aero companies. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's

RINALDO PIAGGIO were a North Italian airframe construction Company founded in 1884, of considerable standing who specialised in marine aircraft until the factory was obliterated by allied aircraft in the 1940's. They resumed after the war producing the ubiquitous Vespa scooters and still produce mostly executive and airline feeder aircraft.

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	diameter
	106 1⁄4" 270 cms

Stock: 12076

A pair of exotic carved polychrome Far Eastern Oriental architectural elements in the form of ornate scaled, serpentine stylised Dragons.
Late 19th century.

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		height
		66 1⁄8" 168 cms

Stock: 11657

A 20th century composition circular Tondo plaque in the Italian Renaissance Revival manner, decorated in high relief with a maiden and attendant cherubs within a foliate border.
English 20th century.

Notes: A tondo (plural "tondi" or "tondos") is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. The word derives from the Italian rotondo, "round."

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	Diameter	Depth
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 11383

An attractive suite of 332 antique Victorian green and white floral tiles of varying size including the rose coloured edging tiles.They had been installed using lime mortar which enabled their safe removal as opposed to the more common use of Portland cement which would have made them almost impossible to remove.
English, circa 1900.

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	width	height
	129 7⁄8" 330 cms	50 3⁄8" 128 cms

Stock: 9363

A pair of oval Portrait Plaques of Mozart and Haydn. The low relief profiles of the 18c Classical Austrian Composers Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, in gilt and patinated cast iron ,both contained in frames seperate to the plaques, in the Rococo manner.
Stamped: Gesetzlich Geschuzt (patented) Lauchhammer, crossed hammers with crown , and serial numbers. Lauchammer , a German art and bell foundry near Dresden since 1725 .German circa 1880.

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	Width	Height
Each	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	19 1⁄2" 49.5 cms

Stock: 11638

One of three plaster panels with painted bronze effect this one with leaping deer and decorative trees after the original design from The Derry & Toms stores, London, after Walter GIlbert circa.1870-1946.

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	width	height	depth
	72 3⁄8" 184 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 11637

One of three Art Deco plaster panels with painted bronze effect this one decorated with leaping gazelles, after the original design from The Derry & Toms stores, London, after Walter Gilbert circa 1870-1946.

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	width	height	depth
	72 13⁄16" 185 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 11636

One of three large Art Deco plaster panels with painted bronze effect, this one depicting strutting peacocks in a field of flowers, after the original design from The Derry & Toms stores, London, after Walter Gilbert circa 1870-1946.

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	width	height	depth
	33 1⁄4" 84.5 cms	64 3⁄16" 163 cms	1 13⁄16" 4.5 cms

Stock: 11470

A large pair of Art Deco bronze pier finials of elongated ovoid urn form with flowers and four sentinel Parakeets upon stepped plinths. Circa 1930

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	Width	height	Depth
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 11314

A very large intricately carved giltwood and red lacquer antique Chinese screen surround with open fretwork carved in high relief throughout depicting ho-ho birds, peacocks, cranes and other exotic birds, lilies, lotus blossoms, realistic twigs and branches, clouds and profuse scrolling foliage. and folkloric Chinese figures. A veritable oriental nature study. Image before restoration.
Chinese, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	152" 386 cms	143 1⁄4" 364 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms
Internal	94 1⁄2" 240 cms	108 1⁄4" 275 cms

Stock: 8176

A solid cast iron three dimensional antique Heraldic Griffin, with folded wings and decorated armoured breastplate.
Flemish, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13 3⁄8" 34 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 8943

A Gaming Wheel, made by H.C. Evans & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Circa, 1900.

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	width	height	depth
	60" 152.5 cms	86" 218.5 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 7129

A pair of Royal Navy metal cartouches in the Baroque style.
Circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	depht
	27" 68.6 cms	28" 71.1 cms	3" 7.6 cms