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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

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Antique Napoleon III Gilt Bronze & Porcelain Mantel Clock

A Napoleon III gilt bronze mantel clock in the Louis XVI style. The seated figure of the muse Clio reading from a scroll, supported by a shaped platform base standing on toupie feet. The white enamel dial with roman numerals, above a floral painted porcelain panel to the frieze. The eight day movement with Brocot suspension striking the hour & half hour on a bell through a countwheel. The case retaining the original gilding.

Height 10 ½” (26.7cm)

Width 15 ½” (39.4cm)

Depth 5″ (12.7cm)

Circa 1860

French

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Antique Kingwood & Marquetry Table De Toilette after Jean-François Oeben Attributed to Paul Sormani

Attributed to Paul Sormani

A late 19th century, French, kingwood and marquetry table de toilette after the model by Jean-François Oeben held in the V&A collection. The shaped top with central  floral marquetry panel with parquetry border sliding back above a frieze drawer fitted with easel mirror and side compartments lined with silk, supported by four slender cabriole legs ending in gilt bronze sabots.

Height 28 1/2″ (72.5cm)

Width 28 3/4″ (73cm)

Depth 14 1/2″ ( 37cm)

French

Circa 1870

This table can be attributed to Paul Sormani. For an identical table see Lot 124 Christies sale 8023 The opulent Eye-500 Years Decorative Arts Europe 22nd September 2011 engraved to the lock plate  ‘SORMANI PARIS  134 Bould Haussman

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Antique French Bronze & Ormolu Chenets

A fine pair of mid 19th century French Chenets of Louis XVI inspiration. The seated figures of children warming themselves by the heat of flaming braziers, the shaped plinths with entwined leafy panels, the children sitting upon swagged material flanked by tassels, standing on toupie feet. Regilded.

Height 30″ (76cm)

Width 22″ (56cm)

Depth 14″ (35.5cm)

French

Circa 1860

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Antique Edwardian Table Lamp

A substantial Edwardian bronze, ormolu & marble table lamp. Of neoclassical form, the single bayonet fitting above a bronze triform stand with guilloche band headed with rams heads issuing garrya husk swags, standing on a moulded stepped marble plinth base. Regilded. Rewired.

Height 32 1/2″ (82.5cm)

Width 9″ (23cm)

Depth 8″ (20.5cm)

French

Circa 1910

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Antique Ormolu Tortoiseshell Casket Bijouterie after Andre Charles Boulle

A fine French Louis XIV style ormolu mounted tortoiseshell table casket bijouterie inspired by André Charles Boulle. In the form of a miniature commode, the rectangular bevelled glazed top opening to a velvet lined interior, above a single mahogany lined frieze drawer, the curvilinear body mounted on each corner with a winged espagnolette terminating in a hairy paw foot. Regilded. Retaining the original key

Height 10 5/8” (27cm)

Width 15 1/4” (38.5cm)

Depth 9 1/4” (23.5cm)

French

Circa 1880

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Pair of 19th Century Bronze & Ormolu Lamps

An impressive pair of 19th century patinated bronze and ormolu mounted table lamps. The original shade carrier above an openwork collar issuing from three figures of classical maidens depicting the sciences and arts, a stepped triform plinth below hung with garlands on flowers standing on a ‘Vert Maurin’ marble plinth.
Sympathetically converted from oil lamps to electricity. Rewired.

Height 25 1/2″ (65cm) to bayonet

Width 9″ (23cm)

Depth 8″ (20cm)

Continental

Circa 1860

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French Restauration Ormolu & Glass Mirror

A French Restauration period ormolu & cut glass table/toilet mirror. The figure of Fortuna holding a cornucopia in one hand, a wreath in the other, supporting a circular double sided swing mirror, retaining the concave & flat glass to each side. The circular cut glass base with a finely cast bead and anthemion ormolu rim.

Height 12 1/2” (32cm)

Base diameter 4 1/2” (11.5cm)

Width 6 1/2” (16.5cm)

French

Circa 1830