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Antique Ormolu Mounted Table Bijouterie Vitrine

A late 19th century mahogany & ormolu mounted table vitrine of French influence. Of kidney form, the shaped bevelled glazed top with a fine marquetry border, opening to a relined interior. The shaped sides panelled with tulipwood and ormolu beading, standing on four fluted legs headed by rosettes and ending in cabriole shaped lower legs with sabots, united by a shaped platform. The mounts regilded. Although of French design, the locks and hinges of English manufacture.

Height 30″ (76cm)

Width 22″ (56cm)

Depth 14″ (35.5cm)

Franglais

Circa 1890

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Antique Mahogany & Ormolu Mounted Table Display Bijouterie Francois Linke

Francois Linke 1855-1946
A late 19th century ormolu mounted mahogany vitrine table from the Belle époque period in the Louis XVI style, attributed to Francois Linke. Of oval form the bevelled glazed top opening to a relined interior with curved glazed sides, supported by four fluted columns standing on cabriole legs and united by a platform stretcher. The whole dressed with gilded bronze.

Height 31 1/2” (80cm)

Width 25” (64cm)

Depth 17” (43cm)

Paris

Circa 1890

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Antique Ormolu Table Lamps In the Empire Style

A pair of late 19th century gilt brass candlestick lamps in the Empire style. The single sconce over a central stem cast with florets, issuing from a spreading circular base, with bands of anthemions. Regilded. Sympathetically converted to electricity. Rewired & PAT tested.

Height to bayonet 13 3/4” (35cm)

Candlestick height 9 7/8” (25cm)

Base diameter 4 3/4” (12cm)

French

Circa 1870

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Antique French Onyx Champleve & Ormolu Table Lamp

A late 19th century, French, champlevé and onyx table lamp. Formed as a champlevé mounted corinthian column with gilt capital, retaining the original cranberry glass reservoir and fitments above a stepped square plinth base. Sympathetically converted to electricity. Rewired and PAT tested. Regilded.

Height 28” (71cm)

Width 6” (15cm)

Depth 6” (15cm)

French

Circa 1880

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Antique Pair of Elkington & Co Ormolu Candlesticks after Rundell, Bridge & Rundell

Elkington & Co
A lovely pair of early Victorian ormolu and parcel silvered swan candlesticks after a 1834 design by William Bateman II for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The leafy acanthus nozzles with floral drip pans on corresponding narrow foliate stems flanked by three seated swans, on shaped tripartite bases decorated with various seashells. Retaining the original gilt & silver finishes, with superb chasing details. Hallmarks ‘Elkington & Co’ date code letter ‘O’, 1853.

Height 6 3/4″ (17cm)

Width 5 1/2″ (14cm)

Depth 5″ (12.7cm)

English

Circa 1853

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Antique 19th Century Bronze Figure of Moses

A mid 19th century continental bronze figure after Michelangelo of Moses. Depicted seated with tablets under his right arm, the finely cast and chased bronze with dark brown patination.

The Moses (c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian high renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the Biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time. Michelangelo’s Moses was unequalled by any modern or ancient work. Seated in a serious attitude, he rests with one arm on the tablets, and with the other he holds his long beard, the hairs, so difficult to render in sculpture.

Height 11 3/4” (30cm)

Width 4 3/8” (11cm)

Depth 4 3/4” (12cm)

Continental

Circa 1860

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Antique Waring & Gillow Ltd Liverpool Mahogany ‘Grandmother’ Longcase Clock In Georgian Style

A small mahogany longcase clock by Waring & Gillow Ltd, Liverpool. The weight driven eight day movement striking the hours on a bell, the engraved brass dial with roman numerals & subsidiary seconds dial with cast spandrels at the corners. The mahogany case with square hood and dentil moulded cornice above a glazed door flanked by reeded columns with gilt bronze capitals. The main case with shaped rectangular door flanked by carved ropes & reeded quadrant columns on a stepped plinth with ogee bracket feet.

The case & movement stamped ‘Waring & Gillow L’Pool’ & with label to reverse.

Height 60″ (152.5cm)

Width 13 1/2″ (34.3cm)

Depth9 5/8″ (24.5cm)

English

Circa 1930

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A Gilt Bronze and Blue Celeste Ground Sèvres Style Porcelain Clock by Jean Baptiste Delettrez

 Jean Baptiste Delettrez

Retailed By Pidduck Manchester

A fine Napoleon III, French, gilt bronze and blue celeste ground Sèvres style mantel clock. The porcelain dial painted with a putto surrounded with roman numerals. The finely cast and chased case surmounted with a porcelain oval portrait of an eighteenth century lady, above an arched top hung with gilt bronze floral swags. The bowed sides with porcelain panels painted with musical trophies, the front with further panels painted with flowers, amour and portraits, within gilt cartouches. The case retaining its original matt and burnished gilding with silver highlights to the leaves.

The eight day movement with Brocot escapement, rack striking the hour & half hour on a bell. The movement stamped JBD (No. 28948). The initials JBD on the movement are a monogram of Jean Baptiste Delettrez who is recorded as living in Paris circa 1845 until circa 1885. The case Numbered ‘3’.

Pidduck & Sons – a famous Hanley jewellers,  positioned at the bottom of Market Square, Hanley, and by the junction with Fountain Square. Their shop first opened in 1841.

Height 20″ (51cm)

Width 11″ (28cm)

Depth 6″ (15cm)

French

Circa 1870

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Antique French Ormolu & Boulle Candelabra

An unusual pair of late 19th century, French, Louis XV style boulle inlaid tortoiseshell and ormolu mounted candelabra. The rococo scrolling acanthus cast triple sconces with central finial, supported by a baluster shaped column inlaid with cut brass to the front & back, standing on a shaped platform base. Regilded.

Height 14 1/2 (37cm)

Depth 4 3/4” (12cm)

Width 11 1/2” (29cm)

French

Circa 1880

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Antique Regency Bronze & Ormolu Cassolettes

A good pair of George IV bronze & ormolu cassolettes. The domed tops with pinatum finials, inverting to a gilded candle sconce, above a basket weave border with bronze body and three supports headed by rams masks, hung with chains, ending in hoof feet standing on a stepped circular plinth base. The bases weighted. Retaining the original mercuric gilding.

Height 9 1/4” (23.5cm)

Base diameter 3 7/8” (9.8cm)

English

Circa 1820

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Antique Pair of Ormolu Mounted Marble Ewers After Claude Galle

An impressive pair of late 19th century ormolu mounted white marble ewers after Claude Gallé. Of elongated ovoid form, the marble bodies mounted around the collar and base with stylised palmettes & acanthus leaves, centred around the middle with a scrolling band. The winged maiden handle, terminating in a cherub mask, clasping the ewer rim, the spout with a bearded mask. The whole standing on a spreading socle with square plinth base and paw feet.

Height 23” (58.5cm)

Width 9” (23cm)

Depth 5 1/2” (14cm)

French

Circa 1880

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Antique Ormolu Swan Candlesticks After William Bateman

A lovely pair of early Victorian ormolu and parcel silvered swan candlesticks after an 1834  design by William Bateman II for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The leafy acanthus nozzles with drip pans on corresponding narrow foliate stems flanked by three seated swans, on shaped tripartite bases raised on lobed bun feet. Retaining the original gilt & silver finishes. Superb chasing to the acanthus leaves.

Height 6 3/4″ (17.2cm)

Width 4 1/8″ (10.5cm)

Depth 4″ (10cm)

English

Circa 1840