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Stock: 10847

THE GREEN MAN CHIMNEYPIECE:
A large well carved oak chimneypiece in the English Jacobean manner. The overmantel with four fluted columns topped by ornate capitals enclosing two rows of three panels, the central panel depicting the emotive Green Man Mask above a row of three Gothic niche. The fireplace frieze, flanked by similar fluted columns and capitals, is carved with Celtic strapwork. English, part 17th century, rebuilt in the early 19th century with matching elements.

Notes: The Green Man motif is usually depicted as a face surrounded by or made from leaves and sprouting branches or vines, surrounded by flowers or fruit. It often be found as a decorative architectural ornament or carving in churches. It has many variations and is found in many cultures from many ages around the world, He is primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of growth each spring.

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	Width	height	Depth
Overall	66 1⁄2" 169 cms	101 5⁄8" 258 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms
Internal	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	41 1⁄8" 104.5 cms

Stock: 12570

A substantial Tudor Revival style Derbyshire Fossil Limestone chimneypiece. The spandrels carved with trailing rosette and shield motifs, the left jamb carved with the initials FPVC, the right jamb with the date 1916.
English early 20th century.

Provenance: The initials on the left jamb may refer to a Frederick Daniel Parslow VC (14 January 1856 – 4 July 1915) who was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Parslow was a Master in the Mercantile Marine, and the first from that Service to be awarded a Victoria Cross. He was the oldest person to receive the VC for actions in World War I.

Notes:The Clipsham fossil stone is dense & hard and will take a polish.

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	width	height	Depth
External	69 1⁄8" 175.5 cms	51" 129.5 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms
Internal	59 3⁄8" 151 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms

Stock: 12576

" AWAY TO NEWMARKET " This delicately carved oak Jacobean chimneypiece is attributed to the provenance of the original Royal Palace built by King James Ist in Newmarket in 1606-10, from which time Newmarket became the “Resort of Kings “as the centre of horse racing which is still known as “ The Sport of Kings “. The Royal Palace was the smallest of King James's palaces and cost £ 20,000 to build.

James Ist was the first to import an Arab stallion into England for racing. Later, around 1724, three Arab stallions were imported and crossbred with English mares to produce the thoroughbred horse from which all thoroughbred horses worldwide are descended...The original horses were named after their owners: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk.

The first Newmarket Royal Palace built by James I from which this chimneypiece orginates was succeeded by another palace built by James' grandson Charles II of which the present Palace House is the surviving element.

Please note the image of an advert published in 1934 from Hotspur Antiques which advertises this same chimneypiece as being " from a Stuart King's palace near Newmarket, Suffolk" The original 1606-10 Royal Newmarket Palace was neglected and later destroyed during the Commonwealth / Republic period of Oliver Cromwell. The chimneypiece would have gone into royal custody. It was bought by us on the Isle of Wight where it's provenance was believed to be that it came from a house on the Osborne estate of Queen Victoria.

Shown with 12570, a 19th century Clipsham fossil stone, Jacobean Revival interior / bolection. English, early 17th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	104 11⁄16" 266 cms	95 11⁄16" 243 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	76 13⁄16" 195 cms	54 7⁄8" 139.5 cms

Stock: 12311

A large High Victorian carved oak chimneypiece in the Italian Renaissance manner. The straight shelf with repeating carved acanthus leaf detail over dentil mouldings over lamb's tongue carved detail. Under this is the panelled frieze and endblocks with symbolic carved detail in each panel depicting the four seasons: Putti for Spring, a Venerable Sage for Winter, flanking the long central panels with high relief carved cornucopia of fruit and other products of the land. The jamb panels carved with land game on the one side and fish on the other. English, circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	84 5⁄8" 215 cms	67 7⁄8" 172.5 cms	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms
Internal	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	44 1⁄8" 112 cms

Stock: 12511

An unusual boldly carved oak chimneypiece in the Neo Gothic manner of A.W.N. Pugin (1812-1852). The contoured shelf over the open clover leaf frieze, flanked by typical Pugin oak leafage decoration, supported on multi column jambs. Image before restoration and polished revival.
English, mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	61 5⁄8" 156.5 cms	60" 152.5 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Internal	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	43 7⁄8" 111.5 cms

Stock: 12548

An imposing Gothic Revival fireplace surround in lightly veined English Marble with a half hexagonal column plinth centrally on the frieze and inset Gothic tracery panelled jambs supporting the shelf. The slow Gothic arch is formed with attractive florally carved spandrels.
English mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72" 183 cms	51 3⁄16" 130 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 cms
Internal	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	36 3⁄16" 92 cms

Stock: 12430

AN IMPOSING LARGE CARVED OAK WOOD CHIMNEYPIECE in the English Renaissance / Jacobean Revival manner. The broad shelf carved with vine leaves and grapes, over the frieze carved from the solid with typical scrolling strapwork centred by an oval medallion, flanked on either side by twin plain pilasters topped with gadrooned capitals. The opening is contained within a slow medieval arch centred by a small keystone. English, mid to late 19th century.

Provenance: Removed from a substantial 19th century house in Bristol.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	77" 195.5 cms	52" 132 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms
Internal	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 12118

A finely carved oak chimneypiece and overmantel in the English Renaissance Elizabethan manner. The gadrooned cornice is set above the many panelled overmantel. This series of panels of varying formats carved with Vitruvian scroll and other period decoration with spirally supported shelves either side. The two main panels showing a noblewoman with a captured dragon facing satyrs. Beneath the well-proportioned shelf with double Guilloche carved detail on the frieze between and Venetian styled capitals, the carved panels on the jambs open to reveal shelves within.

Provenance: A small oval brass plate attached at the back with the details Hewetson, Milner & Thexton Ltd, House Furnishers, Tottenham Court Road, London.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	overall height	depth
	81 1⁄2" 207 cms	100 3⁄8" 255 cms	13" 33 cms
	48 13⁄16" 124 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 12006

A large period Italian Renaissance Chimneypiece in Istrian marble. The frieze carved in high relief with scrolling foliage interspersed with winged cherubs on stylised seahorses either side of a central circular medallion with Hercules slaying an opponent, flanked by figures of putti and winged figures on the corners. The jambs also profusely carved with typical arabesque designs. Venetian, 17th-18th century.

Provenance: By repute from Warwick Castle, a partly medieval castle built in 1068 by William the Conqueror, altered and added to during all the succeeding centuries.

NOTE : Istrian marble from the Istrian peninsular, which borders Italy, Croatia and Slovenia on the Adriatic sea, is sometimes referred to as Istrian stone and was much used in Renaissance Veneto, Venice etc.

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	width	height	depth
External	85 3⁄8" 217 cms	72 5⁄8" 184.5 cms	13" 33 cms
Internal	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	56 1⁄4" 143 cms

Stock: 8893

A Venetian Renaissance Revival Chimneypiece richly carved in Breccia marble. The deeply moulded serpentine shelf over the high relief carved frieze centered by a central floral cartouche flanked by florally decorated panels and scrolled bearded masks of Venetian noblemen supported on substantial, moulded jambs and plinths.
Italian, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
external	76 5⁄8" 194.5 cms	58 11⁄16" 149 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms
internal	49 5⁄8" 126 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms

Stock: 11766

A rare and extraordinary Italian Renaissance Mannerist marble chimneypiece. The deeply undercut serpentine shelf over the exquisitely carved frieze centeed by a Satyr's mask, surrounded with scrolled and extremely fine foliate decoration with large scrolled, angled and likewise deep undercut foliate end brackets over Arabesque decorated jambs descending to curved decorated footblocks. With restorations.
Italian, circa 1680.

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	Width	height	depth
External	63" 160 cms	53" 134.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 11746

" THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE CONNECTION "
A large richly carved Jacobean oak chimneypiece and over mantel.The later carved top rail ornamented with three protruding cartouches centred by shields carved with the letters P.D., E.D 1617, centred by crested twin scrolls and flower-headed finials. The carved details on the massive twin panelled overmantel are centred by putti masks within strapwork, separated by flanked female deities and faun side brackets, over three lion masks on the lintel on substantial supporting pilasters, carved with further female deities; one with a bird and the other with a lute above decoratively carved footblocks .Shown with the original 19th century Neo Gothic carved stone ingrounds. English, late 19th early 20th century.

NOTES; This is a late 19th, early 20th century replica of the 16th century original in the Guildhall at Barnstaple in Devon, SW England. The original is reputed to have been " removed " from a property in Seville, Spain and brought to Devon in 1590 by a privateer from a pirate ship called 'The Prudence'. Devon was the main recruiting area for the “Westward Ho” crews in the build up of English sea power to join the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch in the search for treasures of the orient and the New World. Penzance is in Cornwall, next county to Devon. Research ongoing.

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	width	height	depth
	89" 226 cms	107 1⁄8" 272 cms	11" 28 cms
	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	46 1⁄2" 118 cms

Stock: 11765

SHAKESPEARE PRESENTED. An Arts & Crafts Tudor Gothic revival carved oak chimneypiece and overmantle with low relief carved detail in the Classical and Celtic manner. The main features being the central bronze patinated plaster center tablet on the overmantel depicting characters in Elizabethan costume in a scene from a Shakespearean play, flanked on either side, carved in wood in high relief, by two dancing minstrels playing flute, cymbal and bagpipes. Possibly by The Bromsgrove Guild. English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	75" 190.5 cms	85 3⁄8" 217 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms

Stock: 9922

An imposingly large chimneypiece and overmantel carved in oak in the Tudor / Jacobean Renaissance manner. Extremely tall and with intriguing imagery and motifs at the different levels which include a series of four carved owls interspersed with scallop shells and Tudor roses carved into the lower frieze. The owls frequently found in armorial bearings & associated with wisdom. The roses and shells were symbols or badges for Pilgrims to the East. The frieze is supported on two female Caryatids with abundant fruit headress and strapwork format below. The overmantel is composed of three typical Jacobean Panels with carved central Paterae, seperated by four female caryatids and lion masks, surmounted by the top fanned panels.These features bear a great resemblance to the chimneypiece and panelling in the Great Hall at Castle Ashby, see images and more details below.The 19th century red marble ingrounds are not original to the mantel, but we will extend them to fit.

CONNECTIONS : The Chimneypiece and panelling in the Great Hall in Castle Ashby, Marquis of Northampton, have similar details and features and could have been the inspiration for 9922 made in the 19th century and later, integrating earlier 17th century elements. That one was formerly in the Canonbury Tower, Islington on the Northampton's estate..which formerly belonged to the Spencer family of Diana renown, also a hunting lodge for Henry XVIII. The Tower was from the 1950's until recently the Tower Theater..now rebuilding on the recently revealed remains of Shakespeares original Curtain Theater round the corner from Westland's.

Built in 1509 as a country retreat for the Prior of St Bartholemew, Canonbury was acquired in 1590 by Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London 1594-1595.His daughter eloped with a scion of the Compton family, latterley the Earls of Northampton who inherited the Tower when Spenser died. Sir John made many improvements, the fine panelling of the Spencer and Compton Oak Rooms are his work.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	109 3⁄8" 278 cms	146 1⁄8" 371 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	80 11⁄16" 205 cms	70 1⁄8" 178 cms

Stock: 10189

A RARE AND REMARKABLE ornate 19th century Renaissance-Mannerist Revival chimneypiece in reconstituted stone with four sentinel amorini supporting the shelf either side of a florally decorated frieze centered by a massive cartouche, flanked by Florentine male and female masks over panelled jambs inset with descending floral decoration with pairs of griffins either side. Italian/English, 19th century. The composition material used is being researched but is similar to the exotic mixtures used by the 19th century manufacturers of garden ornaments such as Blashfield, & Austin Seely.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	81 1⁄8" 206 cms	57 1⁄4" 145.5 cms	14" 35.5 cms
Internal	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 10837

A very large and dramatically carved oak 19th century Chimneypiece in the 16th century Venetian Renaissance manner. The massive structure stands on full length oblong white veined Rouge de Rance red marble footblocks with substantial moulded ingrounds in the same marble above a hearth inlaid with St Annes marble panels. The overall concept and decoration is very much in the tradition of the architecture and Caminos to be found in the Palazzo Ducale in St Marks Square in Venice and somewhat in the manner of a design by Giulio Romano. See images below. Italian, mid 19th century.

INTRIGUING PROVENANCE : Ashley Manor, Myrtle Grove,County Waterford in the Irish Republic, until recently a Convent… The property is the original 15th century preferred comfortable windowed house lived in by Sir Walter Raleigh and is owned by Lord Swarsbrick near the Duke of Devonshires estate..Lismore castle which was Raleighs Official residence being 10 miles away. Raleigh, who founded the first English colony at Roanoake in Virginia brought the potato back and it was first planted here, also the fabled instance when a servant threw a jug of water over him when he was smoking happened in Ashley Manor.

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	width	height	depth
External	107 1⁄4" 272.6 cms	117 1⁄2" 298.5 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms
Internal,marble.	55 7⁄8" 142 cms	50 13⁄16" 129 cms

Stock: 10527

A richly carved antique limestone chimneypiece in the Arts & Crafts Neo Gothic manner, with moulded shelf above a carved Shakesperian quotation: "Here we will sit and let the sound of music creep in our ears" from The Merchant of Venice; centred by scrolling floral motifs with further related high relief detail on the spandrels. All carved from the solid stone, the broad arch below supported on straight moulded jambs . English late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	63" 160 cms	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms

Stock: 10321

AN IMMACULATE LARGE SOPHISTICATED CHIMNEYPIECE in the Italian Renaissance manner in black marble. The substantial moulded shelf breaks back at the ends and is broken by an arched niche containing a sculpted circular mask of a Bacchic maiden with vine leaves and grapes adorning her hair - in Rosso Antico red marble. A vine leaf and grape swag is festooned beneath a scrolled central plinth and flanked by acanthus leaf detail over fluted bars interspersed with pyramid lozenges, supported on splendid fluted columns under plain Tuscan capitals, descending to circular bases on square footblocks. Image before final restoration and repolishing. Italian 19th century. Shown with a matching 19th century decorative cast interior, SNo 10184, not included in the price.

SCALE : Tall, wide and grand.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	82 11⁄16" 210 cms	83 11⁄16" 212.5 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms
Internal	50 3⁄16" 127.6 cms	59 1⁄2" 151.1 cms

Stock: 10014

A very large Tudor Gothic Revival chimneypiece in Painswick Limestone, possibly by T. H. Wyatt 1807-1880, a contemporary of Pugin. The frieze and canted ends are carved with nine Quatrefeuille under a concave moulded shelf with likewise nine carved floral motifs in the Pugin style of Oak leaves, over a Gothic arch with oakleaf carved spandrels.Shown in the last frame below with 10015, the original fire grate.

Provenance: Wyke House, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, home of the Hammond Family19th century cloth mill owners in Trowbridge, demolished in the 1950s.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	90 7⁄8" 230.9 cms	70 7⁄8" 180 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	43 7⁄8" 111.4 cms

Stock: 9856

A substantial and impressive Italian Renaissance chimneypiece possibly by Jacopo Sansovino 1486-1570, in extraordinary intricately polychromed fossil, Lumachella Bigia di Verona marble. The large contoured frieze cantilevered out and supported on massive scrolled jambs descending to Lion Paw feet.
Italian, 16th century.

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	Width	Height
External	78 1⁄4" 199 cms	77 3⁄16" 196 cms
Internal	52" 132 cms	60 5⁄8" 154 cms

Stock: 9630

THE SHAKESPEARE CHIMNEYPIECE, Circa 1880.
A truly delightful and richly carved Oak chimneypiece and overmantel depicting scenes & characters from the plays of William Shakespeare for whom the drama held far greater importance than historical fact. Two carved images of him can be seen to left & right at the top of the overmantel. Beneath the circular inset brass working clock by Barry of Edinburgh, the overmantel is dominated by a scene from Richard III, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays written between 1591-1593 & argued by some to be his masterpiece.

1. The Overmantel
Central Panel: 'Richard III' Act 1 Scene II
A messenger arrives with orders from the Regent, later to be crowned Richard III, that the young Prince Richard is to leave his mother Queen Elizabeth, widow of deceased Edward IV, and for his safety join his brother Prince Edward, the as yet uncrowned heir to the throne, in sanctuary in The Tower of London. Queen Elizabeth & the Archbishop of York knowing that the Regent wants the throne for himself are greatly dismayed & fear for all their lives.
Archbishop: "Here comes a messenger. What news ?"
Messenger: "Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold."
Queen Eliz: "Ay me, I see the downfall of our house."

The brothers became known as 'The Princes in The Tower' and their ultimate fate is unknown though it is strongly held that Richard, their uncle and appointed Protector after the death of their father Edward IV, had them murdered to secure his own place on the throne of England. He was crowned on 6th July 1483 after Parliament, through the act Titulus Regius, had their parents marriage declared null & void on the grounds that Edward had been engaged to another at the time of the marriage, a legally binding contract, & that therefore the two Princes were illegitimate.The small cameo on the frieze below could well represent Prince Edward, very briefly King Edward V of England in 1483

2. The righthand panel depicts a scene from 'King Lear' and to the left
3. A scene from the play ' Two Gentlemen of Verona' .
4. The panel beneath them to the right of the frieze depicts Shylock in a scene from
'The Merchant of Venice.' Act 1 - Scene 3
Shylock: "You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me, and you say ' Shylock, we would have moneys ' . You say so - You that did void your rheum upon my beard "
5. The lefthand panel depicts Sir John Falstaff & The Prince of Wales in a scene from
' Henry IV ' ( Pt 1) Act 2 - Scene 4
Prince: "Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the particulars of my life ?"
Falstaff: " Shall I ? Content ! This chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown."
Prince: " Thy state is taken for a join'd stool, thy golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich crown for a pitful bald crown !"

The Chimneypiece:
6. The central frieze on the chimneypiece depicts a scene from
' The Taming of the Shrew ' Act 2 Scene 1
Baptista, a rich man of Padua, with two daughters, Katherine (The Shrew) & Bianca, is petitioned by two suitors for Bianca's hand but tells them Bianca will not be allowed to marry before Katherine, they replied that no one would ever marry a devil like her & they leave. They meet up with Lucentio, secretly in love with Bianca, & later with Petruchio who is hoping to marry a rich man’s daughter & together they pursade him to court Katherine leaving them free to woo Bianca.
The panel depicts Gremio, Petruchio, & Tanio (standing in for Lucentio who doesn't want to reveal himself ) petitioning Baptista.
Petruchio: " And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous? "
Baptista tells Petruchio that he must be crazy to want to woo Katherine but Petruchio after confirming that she will have a substantial dowry assures him:
Petruchio: " Why, that is nothing ; for I tell you father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet together They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:"
Baptista: " Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed! But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words."
After much verbal battle between the pair they fall in love and Katherine is tamed
Petruchio: " Father, 'tis thus ; yourself and all the world, That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her:... For she's not froward, but modest as the dove; ....And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together, That upon Sunday is the wedding-day."
Katherine: " ..Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, ... To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; "
Petruchio: " Why, there's a wench ! Come on, and kiss me, Kate."
.... and all ends well.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 1⁄4" 186.2 cms	98 3⁄16" 249.5 cms	11" 28 cms
Internal	39" 99 cms	40" 101.5 cms

Stock: 7807

LONGSTAFF FAMILY CHIMNEYPIECE: A finely carved small but tall Jacobean Renaissance Revival chimneypiece & overmantel in Derbyshire fossil stone with the coat of arms of the Longstaff Family, who financed the Sir Ernest Shackleton and Scott's Antarctic Expeditions in 1914. The family motto "VIGILATE" carved along the frieze. With restorations.
English, dated 1892.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	61" 154.9 cms	85" 216 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Internal	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	42 11⁄16" 108.5 cms

Stock: 8970

A large Arts and Crafts stone chimneypiece in the Tudor manner, with very fine carved detail on the frieze depicting wood nymphs playing instruments with cornucopia, scrolled floral and mask decoration. Carving also low down on the faceted jambs depicting further mythical creatures.
English, circa 1890, ( photo before restoration ).

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72 13⁄16" 185 cms	53 1⁄4" 135.3 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms
Internal	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 6341

" The Hunters Chimneypiece". An exceptional high relief carved arched marble chimneypiece with rich adornment. The 'pre-crust' breakfront shelf over a massive Wild Boars head central cartouche, with scrolled floral decoration on the frieze panels and end returns, scrolled inverted acanthus corbals of fluted column with Ionic capitals, bunches of grapes and vine leaves on the spandrels and wildfowl hanging from the angled side returns. Italian mid 19c.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	70 1⁄8" 178 cms	49 3⁄16" 125 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Internal	35" 89 cms	39 3⁄8" 100 cms

Stock: 8467

A rare and extraordinary Italian Renaissance Mannerist marble chimneypiece. The deeply undercut serpentine shelf over the exquisitely carved frieze centered by a Satyr's mask, surrounded with scrolled and extremely fine foliate decoration with large scrolled, angled and likewise deep undercut foliate end brackets over Arabesque decorated jambs descending to curved decorated footblocks. With restorations.
Italian, circa 1680.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	63" 160 cms	53" 134.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Internal	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	39 3⁄16" 99.5 cms

Stock: 9055

An impressive tall Rosso Lavanto Marble and walnut Italian Renaissance style chimneypiece. The massive Tuscan columns supporting a well propotioned plain panelled frieze with fluted brackets under a moulded shelf, beneath a large panelled walnut hood. Flemish late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73" 185.5 cms	134 1⁄4" 341 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms
Internal	38" 96.5 cms	65" 165 cms

Stock: 8959

A most striking and impressively large Flemish, High Renaissance style chimneypiece in polished fossil black and red Griotte marble. The fluted frieze richly decorated with ten patinated cast bronze lions heads over urn and dolphin and griffin paterae and griotte marble faceted lozenges, over large carved brackets supported on handsome Griotte columns topped with bronze Corinthian capitals descending to ornate bronze sleeves on high shaped socles. The interior with the original ornate bronze trimmed insert and cast iron fireback.
Flemish dated 1886.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	88 3⁄16" 224 cms	79 1⁄8" 201 cms	25 3⁄16" 64 cms
Internal	45" 114.2 cms	59 1⁄4" 150.5 cms

Stock: 8385

An impressive large Victorian, Gothic Revival antique fireplace mantel in old English marble, the moulded shelf over trefoil decorated frieze and jamb panels, the 'slow peaked' arch with floral spandrels.
English, circa 1860.

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	width	height	depth
external	81" 205.7 cms	52" 132.1 cms	12" 30.5 cms
internal	40 3⁄16" 102.2 cms	37 1⁄2" 95.2 cms

Stock: 7926

An impressive richly carved walnut troubador antique fireplace with spiral carved columns and floral entwined capitals beneath a Gothic Revival trellised overmantel, centered by a dramaticly carved high relief arched centrepiece, depicting Henry II of France & Chevalier Montgomerie jousting.
French, circa 1850 - probably earlier, (photo before final restoration).

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	width	height	depth
external	67" 170.2 cms	91" 231.1 cms	23" 58.4 cms
internal	39" 99.1 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms

Stock: 7713

A very grand richly carved walnut Trumeau antique fireplace in the Florentine Renaissance style, with moulded canopy surmounting a lintel, decorated with a central circular plaque depicting a helmeted young nobleman, over a pair of winged Assyrian lions above a frieze with dolphin endblocks & floral decoration over scrolled brackets supported by retainers seated on Corinthian capitals atop fluted columns.
French, 19th century.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	width	height	depth
external	66" 167.6 cms	115 1⁄2" 293.4 cms	21 11⁄16" 55.2 cms
internal	39 1⁄4" 99.7 cms	56" 142.2 cms

Stock: 7383

A large finely carved Gothic Revival antique fireplace mantel in superbly coloured & veined solid Sienna marble.
English, circa 1820.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	83" 210.8 cms	62 1⁄2" 158.8 cms	14" 35.6 cms
Internal	51" 129.5 cms	45 1⁄2" 115.6 cms

Stock: 7218

A superb, finely carved English Gothic Revival limestone, antique fireplace by A.W.N. Pugin, well proportioned with a castellated shelf, a tracery three center frieze, angled carved jambs & quatre - feuille spandrels.
Provenance: Horstead Place, Sussex.
Circa 1850, (photo before restoration).

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	Width	Height	Depth
External	79" 200.7 cms	71" 180.3 cms	12" 30.5 cms
Internal	48" 121.9 cms	37 1⁄2" 95.2 cms

Stock: 4755

A rare and imposing limestone finely sculpted English Renaissance Mannerist antique mantle, the carved frieze centred by a cartouche flanked by elaborate acanthus foliage with male and female tritons, the jambs in the form of caryatids decorated with a lions head with drapery and strap-work on a mounted plinth foot block.
Provenance: Croydon Hall in the Parish of Timberscombe, West Somerset.
Early 17th century, circa 1620.

Link to: Antique Renaissance, Gothic Tudor Fireplace mantels and Chimneypieces: 1260 - 1600

	width	height
external	72" 182.9 cms	54 1⁄4" 137.8 cms
internal	48" 121.9 cms	40 3⁄16" 102.2 cms