A pair of antique oak sideboards from the late Victorian period
With carved panels, original brass handles and mirrored back tops.
Each sideboard with two drawers and cupboard doors.
Circa 1890
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Table – AF164
An antique French Louis XVI period carved and painted wooded centre table with marble top
The four tapering fluted legs are carved with swags of bellflowers and pearl beading, these terminate on acanthus toupee feet. Laurel arabesques with winged putto and oval centre paterae decorate the frieze. The legs are joined by a X-stretcher frame with flame finial neo-classical urn in the centre.
The thick and moulded edge top is original to the table, material is Italian Arabescato marble.
This table is in original unrestored condition with great patina and time soften colours.
Circa 1800
Leather sofa – AF165
A George III style Chesterfield wingback bench sofa upholstered with brown leather and on mahogany supports
Made in the classic English Georgian taste with rolled arms and fully devolved wings in an hourglass profile. The leather is beautifully aged along with the original brass tack nail-heads. The settee is supported by square reeded legs conjoined by a H-shaped stretcher.
Early 20th century
Cast iron – Ci238
A fantastic and rare antique cast iron fireplace with intricate castings and original tiles
The frieze with two large cornucopias under a stepped cornice shelf. A large egg and dart moulding frames the body.
Circa 1900
Hob grate – AG138
A late 18th century ‘hour glass’ shaped hob grate in the neo-classical taste
With fine castings and pierced front plate.
Circa 1790
Screen – FG006
An antique gilt cast brass Louis XVI style wire mesh fire screen with putto decoration
Its rare to find fire screens of this fine quality.
Circa 1900
St Anne’s marble – 19506
A large English antique St Anne’s marble fireplace from the late Victorian period
The St Anne’s marble body enriched with black marble and Rouge marble elements.
Circa 1890
Pictured with original brass ‘art and crafts’ insert (SOLD)
Grate – AG134
An antique register grate or insert of fine quality and great scale
The horseshoe shaped front plate decorative with rococo ornament.
Circa 1850
Marble Fireplace – 19505
An antique Baroque style fireplace surround in Rouge Royal and Black marble
The bolection style frame with plain frieze and mantle shelf.
Circa 1900
Grate – AG132
A French antique brass and iron fire basket in the Rococo style
The solid brass front with foliate decoration. The cast iron back with C-scroll’s and flowers.
Circa 1900
Insert – AG130
An antique cast-iron register grate in the neo-classical style
The outer frame is decorated with reeded and crossed ribbon mouldings. The ‘hour glass’ shaped hob basket has finely cast oval paterea and floral detail to either side.
Circa 1900
Insert – AG129
A large antique cast-iron register grate (insert), dating to the 1830’s
With raised fire basket, hobs and shaped opening enhanced with floral foliate detail.
Circa 1830’s
Regency Mantel – 19503
An antique Regency period Italian Statuary marble mantlepiece of fine quality and good proportions.
The free standing ionic columns with collars carved with athemion’s and palmettes. The curved and fluted frieze under a deep moulded shelf.
Made from the purest marble and in wonderful condition.
Circa 1820
White marble – 19502
An English (London) antique Statuary Carrara marble fireplace from the early Victorian period
The wide jambs with carved acanthus corbels above floral panels, the centre tablet depicting a basket of summer flowers. A deep moulded edge shelf sits on top.
Circa 1860
French black marble – 19501
An antique French pure black marble mantelpiece in the Louis XV Rococo style
The serpentine shaped and moulded shelf above a highly carved frieze with centre floral cartouche, acanthus and foliage. The canted jambs headed by richly carved rocaille cabochon, c-scrolls and scallop shells.
Circa 1840
White marble – 19498
An Irish antique George III period statuary marble fireplace, attributed to George and Hill Darley, Dublin
The tall elegant pilasters with finely carved neo-classical ornament.
The centre plaque is extremely well carved.
In the additional images section note the original drawing from the 1790’s by George and Hill Darley with identical jambs.
Circa 1795
Antique fireplace 19284
An Irish antique Statuary marble fireplace, from the late Georgian/William IV period
This fireplace was produced in Dublin during the 1830’s, from the finest imported Italian statuary Carrara marble. The exquisitely carved centre tablet depicts Clio, the muse of epic poetry and history, in a reclining position with a globe and open book under her left arm and the word HISTORY written on a canvas by her right hand. At either side of the centre tablet are raised and fielded frieze panels. Elegant acanthus decorated corbels above moulded pilasters, support the mantel shelf.
Circa 1830
Antique Mantelpiece – 19341
An Irish antique late Georgian period marble mantelpiece
Extremely well made and with good proportions, this white Statuary marble fireplace features coloured Nero Portoro marble frieze panels, acanthus corbels and a basket of flowers centre plaque.
Dublin, Circa 1830
Adam revival – 19497
An antique Adam style Statuary and Portoro marble mantlepiece
Beautifully carved using the best Statuary Carrara marble, this well-proportioned neo-classical fireplace features very fine carvings and nicely figured Portoro marble columns.
Circa 1890
Large column arch – 19496
A large antique mid 19th century marble fireplace with free standing columns
Produced in England during the 1850’s from fine Italian pencil veined Statuary Carrara marble.
The fireplace features a wide moulded shelf over an arched opening with centre keystone and jambs with full rounded, free-standing columns on socles and plain plinths.
Circa 1850
Parma (Viola)
A large marble bolection fire surround of generous proportions
The wide and simplified bolection moulded frame rests on plain angled plinths.
Carved in the solid from a block of beautifully figured, Breccia viola marble, hand selected in Italy by Ryan & Smith.
Roma (Emperador)
A large bolection fireplace produced in three solid blocks of Emperador marble
The Roma Bolection is a stylishly simple and robust example of a bolection moulding fireplace surround.
Verona (Viola)
A stylish and neatly proportioned bolection fireplace produced in Italian Breccia Viola marble
The fireplace has a moulded bolection frame on plain plinths, with a stepped cornice shelf on top.
A classic design, fashionable in Europe for over three hundred years.
Blue & white pottery – 19495
An exceptional antique glazed blue and white pottery fireplace by Ulisse Cantagalli, Italian designer of lustre ware and pottery
The jambs with female caryatids supporting the break-fronted frieze. The frieze decorated with laurel arabesques and two griffins flanking a centre cartouche.
An identical fireplace is installed at Cantagalli’s cousin’s villa in Italy, and another one in Villier Hall, a large English country house decorated in Italian style.
This wonderful mantlepiece was exhibited at the world exhibition of 1885 in Antwerp Belgium, it was on display at the Cantagalli company stand.
Circa 1885
Register grate – AG128
Exceptional antique English Victorian register grate by Messrs, Longden & Co, Sheffield
Illustrated at the international exhibition, 1862, original print and description in additional images.
Circa 1862
Slate – SL040
A large and fully restored antique blackened slate fireplace surround from the Edwardian period
The tall jambs having moulded and fluted pilasters under bracket corbels, the fluted panelled frieze with D-ends and centre circle.
Salvaged from an Edwardian Belfast property.
Circa 1900
Original tiled insert: sold
Large carved Wood – W160
A large and highly carved antique oak fireplace surround, made in the Jacobean style
Produced in England during the 19th century incorporating 17th century and 18th century carved elements.
Marble – 19490
An Exceptional Irish George III period white marble mantlepiece with finely carved tablets and inlaid coloured marble panels.
This fine neoclassical antique fireplace of Italian statuary marble is inlaid with Pietra Dura specimens of Sienna, Verde Antico, Spanish Brocatelle and Kilkenny Black.
The classical lidded urn centre tablet is typical of the Darley workshop as are the musician instrument corner blockings.
From the workshop of George and Hill Darley, Dublin, circa 1800
Wood – W159
A tall and robustly carved George II style pine chimneypiece in the manner of William Kent
The acanthus decorated frieze with female mask at centre is under an egg and dart cornice shelf. The side scrolled consoles carved with acanthus, acorns and oak leaves are attached to a wide aperture moulding decorated with egg, dart, flower, shell and dart motifs.
A lovely colour and in great condition.
Supplied with slate slips which can be replaced by coloured marble if preferred.
Circa 1890
Cast iron – Ci230
An antique Victorian period cast iron fireplace with original tiles
With a fluted pillared frieze under a dentil shelf and featuring a good set of Victorian Majolica tiles.
Circa 1890