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Edwards & Roberts

A late 19th century, Victorian, satinwood and marquetry inlaid satinwood cabinet on stand of small proportions. The moulded cornice above an inlaid frieze with a pair of astragal glazed doors below enclosing a polished shelved interior flanked by glazed sides. The base with a bowed front and inlaid urn detail, above a single mahogany lined drawer supported by four tapering square legs ending in spade feet and united by a shaped stretcher. The drawer stamped “Edwards & Roberts’.

Height74 1/2″ (189.3cm)

Width 28 3/4″ (73cm)

Depth 17 3/4″ (45cm)

English

Circa 1890

A late 19th century gilt wood and gesso overmantel mirror in the Adam style. The three rectangular bevelled plates flanked by cluster columns inset gilt frame with moulded cornice above a deep frieze with anthemion  and cornucopia decoration.

Height 34 1/4” (87cm)

Width 59 3/4” (150cm)

Depth 3” (7.8cm) at base  5” (12.8cm) at cornice

English

Circa 1880

Brooks & Co

A mid Victorian walnut music stand. The shaped adjustable easel cut with fretwork scrolls and lyre, supported by a turned and fluted column with three carved cabriole legs ending in scroll toes. Stamped twice to base ‘Brooks & Co’

Height 117cm-145cm

Width 47cm

Depth 38cm

English

Circa 1860

A ‘Grand Tour’ bronze from the second half of the 19th century of ‘The Dying Gaul’, after the antique. The slumped figure with broken sword to his side, on an integral oval base. Original dark brown patination.

Height 5 1/4″ (13.3cm)

Width 11″ (28cm)

Depth 5 1/2″ (14cm)

French

Circa 1890

A late 19th century, French, mahogany & purpleheart centre table in the Louis XVI style after the model by Riesener, mounted with chased gilt bronze. The rectangular top with fine lattice parquetry and pierced gallery, above a single frieze drawer with finely cast foliate scroll, the four floral mounted canted corners on tapering square legs edged with rope twist mouldings and ending in gilt sabots. The mounts retaining their original gilding.

Height 30 3/4″ (78 cm)

Width 39″ (99cm)

Depth 22 1/2″ (57cm)

French

Circa 1880

Gervais-Maximillien-Eugène Durand (b.1839)

A fine quality French, amaranth & satiné rouge side cabinet by G Durand, mounted with finely chased gilt bronze, in the Louis XVI style. The carrera marble top with pierced gallery, above a slim frieze with a pair of doors below inlaid with musical instruments, and flanked by open shelved sides, supported on a shaped table base with central drawer and standing on square tapering legs united by a platform base with pierced gallery. The carcass of quarter sawn oak and walnut drawer linings with original gilding to the mounts. The reverse variously stamped ‘G Durand’ with the ‘Marqué au fer’

Specialising in the production of 18th century style furniture of the finest quality, Gervais-Maximillien-Eugène Durand (b.1839) exhibited at the Universelle Exposition of Paris in 1889, gaining a silver medal, and the praise of the judges, who compared their work with that of Beurdeley and Dasson With his son Frederic-Louis joining him around 1890, the firm changed its name to Durand et Fils.

Height 51 1/2″

Width 42″

Depth 15 1/2″

Circa 1880

French

A pair of early 19th century French, Charles X, gilt bronze and patinated bronze urns. The campana shaped urns with beaded rims above waisted body with acanthus cast base supported by a reeded column and plinth base. Numbered ‘VII & VIII’ and with cast initials ‘LS’.

Height 12″ (30cm)

Width 4 3/4″ (12cm)

Depth 4 3/4″ (12cm)

French

Circa 1830

Discobolus of Myron

Early 20th century, Continental, ‘Grand Tour’ style bronze model of the discus thrower. Depicted arms outstretched throwing the discus, standing on a turned serpentine marble column. Dark brown patination.

The original Greek bronze is lost but the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which was cheaper than bronze, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discobolus, and smaller scaled versions in bronze.

Height 8 5/8″ (22cm)

Width 4″ (10cm)

Depth 5 1/2″ (14cm)

Continental

Circa 1910

A George IV albuera wood table probably by Gillows. The rectangular top with carved scroll gallery, above a frieze with split bead mouldings and end drawers, the turned supports, united by a turned stretcher, standing on cabriole legs ending in brass castors. The form follows a design in the Gillows estimate sketch books for Ferguson & Co, 1822.

Height 28 3/4 (73cm)

Width 27 1/2″ (70cm)

Depth 19 1/4″ (49cm)

English

Circa 1830

A pair of William IV gilt bronze candlesticks rococo form. The acanthus cast single candle sconce above a reeded tapering stem with scroll feet and triform stepped plinth base. Original mercury gilding with some wear to stem. Numbered ‘49569’

Height 13 3/8″ (34cm)

Depth 6″ (15cm)

Width 5 3/8″ (13.5cm)

English

Circa 1835

A pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze and champlevé enamel vases in the Japanese style, possibly by Barbedienne. Each cylindrical body with blue ground and enamel chrysanthemum blossoms and foliage, flanked by a pair of bamboo handles, and supported by scrolling leafy feet. Regilded.

Height 7 1/4″ (18.4cm)

Width 5 1/2″ (14cm)

Depth 3 3/4″ (9.6cm)

French

Circa 1880

A 19th century patintated bronze ewer after John Flaxman. The figure of Neptune holding the neck, with dolphin’s head mask to the shoulder at the front, and flanked on each side by a swag of aquatic leaves. The flared socle base with square beaded plinth, supported by a stepped moulded rouge marble base.

Sacred to Neptune water ewer, Modelled by John Flaxman Snr. Neptune was the Roman name for Poseidon (Greek term), god of the Mediterranean.

Height 17″ (43cm)

Width 8″ (20.5cm)

Depth 6″ (15cm)

Circa 1860

English

Attributed to George Oakley

A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid chiffonier. The  rectangular top shelf with pierced brass gallery above a mirror back with twin gilt bronze supports. The base with two mahogany lined frieze drawers above a pair of replaced silk pleated panelled doors, enclosing an interior with adjustable shelves, flanked by tapering columns and standing on four gilt bronze claw feet. The mirror plate replaced. The attribution to Oakley is based on his documented work for J.H.Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, including side cabinets sharing the use of tapering columns with wide brass lines and the identical form of gallery and gilt claw feet (vide Christies, April 2009,2006).

Height 50 ½” (128cm)

Width 39 ¼” (100cm)

Depth 18″ (46cm)

Circa 1815

English

A late 19th century Continental bronze group of the ‘Uffizi Wrestlers’. Depicting the two male wrestlers engaging in the sport Pankration, retaining the dark brown/green patination. The Pancrastinae, a famous Roman marble sculpture after a lost Greek original of the third century BCE. Discovered in 1583 near Porta S. Giovanni, Rome and the purchased by the Medici Family and is now exhibited at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

Height 9 3/4″ (25cm)

Width 11 1/2″ (29cm)

Depth 7 1/8″ ( 19cm)

Continental

1900

A 19th century, French, bronze ‘La Joueuse D’osselets’. The young girl kneeling on a naturalistic base playing knucklebones, also known as Jacks. Brown patination, standing on an oval purple velvet covered base. Ink inscription to underside 81340?

Height 8″ (20cm)

Width 8″ (20cm)

Depth 6″ (15cm)

French

Circa 1880

A late 19th century, French, rosewood and marquetry ormolu mounted side table of kidney shape. The floral top with pierced gallery above a single mahogany lined drawer retaining the original lock & key, the four fluted supports with shaped undertier and cabriole legs ending in cast paw feet.

Circa 1890

French

A late 19th century, French, onyx & gilt metal mounted column. The square top above a turned column with gilded collars, standing on a square stepped plinth base. Mounts re-gilded.

Height 42 1/2″

Depth 11″

Width 11″

French

Circa 1890