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Place of Origin: English
Antique English Tile Depicting Prince of Wales Coat of Arms
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A hand decorated antique English heraldic tile depicting the coat of arms of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), dating from 1881. This porcelain tile is one of 14 sim...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Antique English Sheffield Silver-Plated Convertible Candelabra, Circa 1870.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique English Sheffield silver-plated convertible candelabra, circa 1870.
Per the last 3 photos, these pieces convert from triple cup candelabra to single cup candlesticks.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Etched Glass Vase with Greek Key Motif
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
Large Etched Glass Vase with Greek Key Motif. England, 20th century.
Category
20th Century English Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass
A mahogany London bracket clock by Brockbanks
Located in HAARLEM, NL
A very different English Regency, mid nineteenth century mahogany bracket clock with matching bracket, circa 1830.
The case with arched top and side arched glass apertures, the corn...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
An Exceptional Cheroot Case Made in London by Rawlings & Summers, 1849
By Charles Rawlings & William Summers
Located in London, GB
An Exceptional Cheroot Case Made in London in 1849 by Rawlings & Summers.
The case is broad rectangular in form, with a hinged top. It is beautifully engraved all over with crisp p...
Category
19th Century Early Victorian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Gorge III Hip Flask Made in London by Peter, Ann & William Bateman, 1802
By Peter, Ann & William Bateman
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare Gorge III Hip Flask Made in London in 1802 by Peter, Ann & William Bateman.
Hip Flasks are extremely rare from this early date, as they gain popularity during the Victor...
Category
19th Century George III Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
A small oval tortoiseshell piqué patch pot
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A small oval tortoiseshell piqué patch pot, the hinged lid with a beribboned garland of flowers round a blank escutcheon, raised on four ogee feet....
Category
Early 20th Century English Decorative Objects
Materials
Tortoise Shell
George III Neo Classical "Adam" Candlesticks by Joseph Tibbitts, 1775
Located in London, GB
A very rare and unusual pair of George III Neo Classical "Adam" Candlesticks made in Sheffield in 1775 by Joseph Tibbitts
The Candlesticks stand on a square base which is decorated ...
Category
18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pair Estate English Aesthetic Movement Silver-Plated Candlesticks Circa 1950-60.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Estate English Aesthetic Movement Silver-Plated Candlesticks, Circa 1950-1960.
Category
Mid-20th Century Aesthetic Movement English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair of George III Cast Candesticks Made in London by John Schofield in 1797
By John Schofield
Located in London, GB
John Schofield. A very unusual pair of George III Cast Candesticks made in London in 1797 by John Schofield.
These exceptional Candlesticks are cast and stand on a circular base dec...
Category
18th Century George III Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Wedgwood Creamware 18th Century Part Service
By Josiah Wedgwood
Located in Katonah, NY
The set was hand painted at Wedgwood, in England, circa 1785.
The borders are decorated with a delicate band of green leaves and berries on the vine, and the edges are painted brown....
Category
Late 18th Century George III Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Creamware
Pair of George II Serving Dishes Made in London by Edward Aldridge, 1745
By Edward Aldridge
Located in London, GB
A Very Fine Pair of George II Serving Dishes Made in London in 1745 by Edward Aldridge.
The Dishes are shaped circular in form, with a stepped gadrooned border, interspersed with foliate motifs. The reverse is engraved with their number in the set, in addition to their original scratch weight. Both are very well marked, also on the reverse. Each border is engraved with the Armorial, Coronet, Supporters and Motto "Semper Paratus...
Category
18th Century George II Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Fine Pair of 19th Century English Carrara Marble Busts - John Denton Crittenden
Located in New York, NY
A Fine Pair of Mid 19th Century English Carved Carrara Marble Busts on Wooden Pedestals By John Denton Crittenden
Depicting a well-to-do man and woman.
Each signed J.D. CRITTENDEN....
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Antique English Wedgwood Blue Porcelain Coromandel Wood Inkwell, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Wedgwood blue porcelain and coromandel wood inkwell desk compendium, circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Charming Bust of a Child’s Head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, Dated, 1910
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A charming bust of a child’s head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, dated 1910, the girl has her head slightly tilted forwards as she looks out from under a lock of hair, set on a square block signed on the reverse ‘E Whitney-Smith 1910’.
This bronze is a reduction of Whitney-Smith’s original marble piece, a photograph of which survives in the V&A (object number AAD/1990/12/63). Another version can be seen in a 1920s photograph of the artist in his studio owned by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG x194201). Neither the identity of the sitter nor title of the work is known.
Edwin Whitney-Smith (1880-1952) was one of the pre-eminent sculptors of his day. Born in Bristol in 1880, he became a student of William Harbutt, the headmaster of Bath School of Art, best remembered today for inventing plasticine. Whitney-Smith showed great promise from an early age, opening a studio in St John’s Wood, London, in 1910. He exhibited over 40 pieces at the Royal Academy and despite not achieving Academician status, even with list of illustrious proposers, he became a dear friend of Sir Alfred Munnings, the famous horse painter, and sculpted his portrait. He was, however, elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors and his works were generally well-received by critics and the general public alike.
Aside from the RA, he exhibited in Bristol, at the Paris Salon and the Scottish Academy and his work attracted the attention of such important patrons as the Courtauld family. One of his most famous works, The Waking Child, is in the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and another, The Irishman, is in the Tate. One version of his bust of Ernest Bevin, the trade unionist, stands in Tooley Street in Bermondsey to this day. An article in The Sphere, published on the 3rd of May 1924, referred to the sculptor as “a well-known sculptor of smiling children” and mentioned his “famous babies’ heads”.
Category
1910s Vintage English Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century English Sheffield Candlesticks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In excellent condition. Iron weighted.
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper, Iron
19th Century Carved Marble Bust of a Nymph by Robert Physick
Located in London, GB
A Carved Marble Bust of a Nymph
By Robert Physick (1815-1882)
Carved from Carrara marble, the female bust signed and dated to the base "Robt Physick. Sculp : 1875."
English, cir...
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
1920s Sterling Silver Presentation Bowl with Handles
By Cooper Brothers & Sons
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique English sterling silver presentation bowl and plinth; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This exceptional, fine and impressive antique silver bowl has a circular rounded form onto a circular spreading foot.
The body of the impressive bowl is plain and unembellished, with an applied moulded border to the undulating rim.
This exceptional piece of antique silverware is fitted with two fine and impressive Art Nouveau, narrow loop style handles with bifurcating scrolling upper terminals.
This antique silver bowl with handles...
Category
1920s Vintage English Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Silver Candelabra by Thomas Bradbury
By Thomas Bradbury & Sons Ltd.
Located in New Orleans, LA
This important set of George V silver candelabra by famed English silversmiths Thomas Bradbury & Sons are some of the finest the firm ever created. A high level of refinement is impa...
Category
20th Century Georgian English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Victorian Kingwood and Gilt Metal Mounted Planter Jardinière Table
Located in Altrincham, GB
Victorian Kingwood and Gilt Metal Mounted Planter Jardinière Table, late 19th century, with removable cover opening to reveal a metal void, the waisted sides above a shaped apron, ra...
Category
1880s Louis XIV Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Rare 19th Century Brass Engraved 'Inkwell' Table Clock attributed to Thomas Cole
By Thomas Cole (Clockmaker)
Located in London, GB
An Unusual 'Inkwell' Table Clock
Attributed to Thomas Cole
Constructed from gilt brass, the novelty timepiece rising from a turned ebonised base inset with a concave brass tray e...
Category
19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Marble Group of Child Playing with a Puppy, After Joseph Gott, 1786-1860
By Joseph Gott
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An enchanting early 19th century marble group of a seated child playing with a Greyhound puppy.
After; Joseph Gott (1785–1860) was a 19th century English ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Victorian Antique Porcelain Mantel Clock by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, London
By Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy
Located in Devon, GB
A fine early 19th century Coalport Porcelain cased timepiece by this famous maker.
The elaborate pink ground porcelain case is set with exotic birds and flowers on scroll feet, wi...
Category
19th Century William IV Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Mid 19th-Century Gilt-Bronze Carriage Clock
Located in Greenlawn, NY
Lee & Son, Belfast – Retailer
The very heavy gilt-bronze case has a bollard handle, a glass viewing panel above, is stamped 1522 and has a pinned back door with the release on th...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Les Ottomans "The Peacock Design" Oval Iron Tray by Matthew Williamson
By Matthew Williamson, Les Ottomans
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Matthew Williamson one of the most well known fashion designer has created a tabletop and textile collection for Les-Ottomans. Colors is a must in all Williamsons’ designs as well as the peacock’s references that are here revealed in several new and original patterns. This listing is showing the famous Peacock design by Matthew Williamson on an oval iron tray.
Matthew Williamson is an award-winning British designer renowned for his use of kaleidoscopic color, intricate patterns and designs inspired by nature and travel. A graduate from the prestigious Central Saint Martins College, Matthew Williamson showed his critically-acclaimed debut catwalk collection ‘Electric Angels’ in 1997. In recent years, Matthew’s design DNA has translated seamlessly into interiors. Interior design commissions include the courtyard garden at Blakes Hotel in London, the bridal suite at Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire and suite 67 at Belmond La Residencia. His range of branded products in the luxury lifestyle and interiors arena includes wallpapers and fabrics with Osborne & Little, rugs with The Rug Company, stationery with Museums & Galleries, lighting with one. World and luxury home fragrance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern English Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
19th Century Blue & Gold Porcelain-Mounted Rosewood Table Cabinet
Located in London, GB
A Fine Table Cabinet
Rising from scrolling foliate bracket feet, the rectangular cabinet constructed in rosewood and surmounted with a hinged cavetto moulded lid set with a Sèvres-s...
Category
19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain, Rosewood
Count Gleichen’s shrapnel paperweight. Russian and English, 1854
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Count Gleichen’s Russian shell paperweight, the tooth shaped fragment of a Russian armament shell set above another of rectangular form both raised on a silver mount on an ebonized rectangular plinth, applied with a plaque reading ‘Two fragments of a Russian shell fired at Mr Fred Burne assist.t paymaster and Mr Henry Crave St John midshipman of H.M.S. Cumberland in Aug.t 1854 from Tsee Fort Bonarsund whilst conveying refreshments to the English camp – for their messmate – H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe Midshipman landed with the Naval Brigade in 1854’. With a framed caricature of Count Gleichen inscribed Vanity Fair, London, July 5, 1884. Vice Admiral H.S.H Count Gleichen – the Queen’s Nephew.Russian and English, 1854.
The print has the following biography on the reverse and on the mount ‘His Serene Highness Prince Victor …. of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, is better known in England as Count Gleichen and as the Queen’s nephew. Born fifty years ago, he was sent to school at Dresden; but at the age of fourteen he conceived ideas not to be bounded within the confines of the small life of a German principality. So he ran away from school to go to sea, and his aunt the Queen of England, being informed of the fact, proposed to her sister to let her adventurous nephew become naturalised as an Englishman and enter the English Navy. This was accordingly done, and Prince Victor, as he was then called, was appointed to the Powerful on the Mediterranean Station, in 1848. He served in the Crimean War and in the operations in China he proved a popular officer and a good sailor-man, and was three times wounded in battle. In 1861 he married the daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour, sister of the fifth Marquis of Hertford on which occasion it was that he put down his title of Prince and took up for future use that of Count. He became, in due course a Vice-Admiral, and in the meantime he also became a sculptor. It is in the latter art that he now mainly busies himself, and he has created many pleasing busts of his royal relatives and some works of greater pretensions than family portraits. An Alfred the Great, a Beaconsfield, and a Prince Imperial...
Category
1880s Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Silver
19th Century Monumental English Harvest Basket
Located in Buchanan, MI
19th century monumental English harvest basket, great at the foot of a bed or amazing coffee table.
Category
19th Century Folk Art Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Rattan
Octagonal Mahogany Buckets
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A pair of octagonal constructed mahogany brass band Georgian design peat buckets with circular grip loop handles. . Made entirely from 18th century timber and old surface brass. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary George III English Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Silver Gilt Portland Vase by Elkington & Co.
By Elkington & Co.
Located in New Orleans, LA
This magnificent silver-gilt Portland vase was crafted by the pioneering silversmithing firm of Elkington & Co. The iconic classical scenes are chased up...
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Large 19th Century Flower Encrusted Vase and Cover
By Bloor Derby
Located in London, GB
An elegant English porcelain vase and cover, first quarter of the 19th century, probably from the Derby factory, with hand-painted panels of birds and fruit and flower scenes, with e...
Category
Mid-19th Century Other Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Classical Stone Bust
Located in NYC, NY
A good 19th century carved stone bust. The handsome figure in Greco-Roman attire with toga draped across the chest and a laurel wreath around his head.
...
Category
19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
19th Century Mahogany Inkwell in the Form of a Capstan
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
19th century model of a ship's capstan in mahogany with a hinged lid enclosing an inkwell.
Category
1880s Antique English Decorative Objects
PAIR OF ENGLISH STAFFORDSHIRE DOGS 19th Century
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
PAIR OF ENGLISH STAFFORDSHIRE DOGS 19th Century
Earthenware
English in molded, relief and gilded ceramics.
Wear on the gold.
Height: 38 cm.
good conditions for the time
Category
19th Century Late Victorian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
George IV Vinaigrette Made in Birmingham in 1823 by John Bettridge
Located in London, GB
The vinaigrette is broad rectangular in form and is engraved on the cover with trellis work designs and stylized foliate motifs around a rectangular cartouche engraved with contempor...
Category
1820s Antique English Decorative Objects
Fine George III Vinaigrette Made in Birmingham in 1808 by Joseph Willmore
Located in London, GB
The Vinaigrette is slender broad rectangular in form. The cover is engraved with unusual horizontal bands of ovals and wriggle work, all surrounding an oval cartouche engraved with c...
Category
19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Antique English Wedgwood & Sheffield Silver Mounted Jewel Box, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Wedgwood Porcelain and Sheffield Silver Mounted Ebonized Jewel Box, Circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Sheffield Plate
English Wedgwood Jasperware Bowl Neoclassical
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful English Wedgwood Jasperware sage green and white matte stoneware bowl, in the Neoclassical design style, circa mid- to late 20th century, E...
Category
20th Century Neoclassical English Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
European Contemporary Red Sculptural Candlesticks by Margit Wittig
By Margit Wittig
Located in London, GB
Margit Wittig has used her sculptural skills to create beautifully-crafted, well-proportioned contemporary candlesticks, which are compositio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern English Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Sunshine Yellow Powder-Coated Decorative Swan Bowl, Mid-Century Modern England
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
This is a unique English decorative bowl, functional as well as fun. There are many uses for this versatile freshly powder-coated bright sunshine yellow piece. This bowl features two...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage English Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Dunhill Art Nouveau Patinated Bronze Dish Vide Poche Ashtrays
By Dunhill
Located in Doylestown, PA
Rare pair of English Dunhill art nouveau patinated bronze ashtrays, catchalls with a female nude amongst waves in bas relief with organic form edge, London, England, early 20th centu...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau English Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Antique English Rosewood Jewel Box, Circa 1900.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Rosewood Jewel Box with Interior Mirror and Compartment Tray, Circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century English Decorative Objects
Materials
Rosewood
English Octagonal Rosewood with Boxwood Line Inlay Jewelry Box
Located in Free Union, VA
A slim and elegant box of highly figured rosewood divided into multiple panels, each bordered with narrow boxwood string inlay. The box rests on small wooden ball feet in faux painte...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Rosewood
Vintage Child Portrait Bust, English, Plaster, Study, Young Boy, 20th Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage child portrait bust. An English, plaster cast study of a young boy and dating to the late 20th century.
Full of character a...
Category
Late 20th Century English Decorative Objects
Materials
Plaster
Joan and David De Bethel Papier Mache Cat 1977
Located in Maidstone, GB
Joan de Bethel papier-mache, glass eyed, cat made in Rye Sussex July 1977
Category
1970s Vintage English Decorative Objects
Materials
Paint, Paper
Large Drift Timber Wooden Brutalist Sculpture
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
Wonderful large sculpture made from drift timber, natural form. Very good texture and colour to the wood, aged over time.
Would look great either indoor or outdoor.
ST1526.
Category
20th Century Rustic English Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Bust of Doulton Chairman Lewis John Eric Hooper by John Broad
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
Dated 1904, this stoneware bust was made by late 19th century Doulton sculptor John Broad. It depicts Lewis John Eric Hooper, descendant of John Doulton who was founder of the famous Doulton & Co. of Lambeth, London. A barrister at the time, Hooper became Managing Director of the ceramics company from 1919 and subsequently Chairman from 1925. Here he is depicted in his barrister dress by the talented hand of Broad, giving us a glimpse into the character of Hooper as well as Broad’s artistic talent for statuary. The bust is in good condition, made in stoneware and sits on a wooden plinth detailed with plaque. This bust is likely a one-off commission.
Broad was one of the most prominent artists of Doulton & Co. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specialising in large works, he had a talent for producing vases, statuary and portrait medallions. This stone bust of Lewis John Eric Hooper...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian English Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Pair of Neoclassical Garden Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish set of English 19th century cast iron Neoclassical Revival garden urns were acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
Note: Dimensions of square bases are 8.25" width x 8.1...
Category
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Revival Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Liberty and Co Pewter Inkwell with a Green Ruskin Jewel and original ink liner
By Liberty & Co.
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co in the style of. An English Arts & Crafts hexagonal pewter Inkwell with a Green Ruskin ceramic jewel to the hinged lid. Retaining the original pewter removable inkwell. ...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Mahogany 8 Day Painted Face Longcase Clock
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding antique mahogany 8 day painted face longcase clock signed Johnson Knaresboro with a swan-neck pediment with original brass finials. This a stunning piece, very decorative...
Category
1850s Victorian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Georgian Mason's Ironstone Serving Dish in Oriental Pheasant Pattern, Ca 1820
By Mason's Ironstone
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative serving dish or tray by Mason's Ironstone, Lane Delph, England in the Oriental Pheasant pattern, dating to the very early p...
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Ironstone
Set of Contemporary Dark Berry European Sculptural Candlesticks by Margit Wittig
By Margit Wittig
Located in London, GB
Margit Wittig has used her sculptural skills to create beautifully-crafted, well-proportioned candlesticks, which are compositions of her unique signature pearl-shaped designs.
Each...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern English Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
19th Century Rosewood Games Box
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive Mid-19th Century rosewood card, or games, box having charming polychrome cards and chequered strung decoration to hinged top, enclosing paper lined interior with di...
Category
Mid-19th Century Regency Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Rosewood
Victorian Hungarian Ash Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming Mid-19th Century hungarian ash tea caddy of unusual design, having applied tablet & chequered strung decoration to well figured exterior, with slightly domed hinged top en...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Ash
Regency Mahogany Miniature Sideboard Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and rare early 19th Century Regency Period mahogany tea caddy, in the form of a miniature pedestal sideboard, having extremely well figured, crossbanded hinged top, over d...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Large Industrial Cast Iron Gents of Leicester Factory Wall Clock, c.1930
By Gents of Leicester
Located in London, GB
Large cast iron factory clock manufactured by renowned electrical company Gents of Leicester. c.1930
Almost certainly used in an industrial setting, this clock retains it's remnan...
Category
1930s Industrial Vintage English Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Antique Oak and Mahogany Grandfather Clock by W Prior, Skipton
Located in Suffolk, GB
An antique oak and mahogany grandfather clock by W Prior, Skipton with a swan-neck pediment and an attractively decorative arched painted dial with a date and seconds dial. It has a ...
Category
1860s Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Extremely Rare Pair of Regency Cast-Iron Sarcophagus Shaped Strong Boxes
Located in Benington, Herts
An extremely rare pair of Regency cast-iron sarcophagus shaped strong boxes.
Regency, circa 1820
Painted to simulate palisander wood and with parcel-gilt, the cavetto-moulded hinged lids cast with flower sprays above foliate-cast bands over front panels relieved with river gods within canted corners cast with standing muses, the sides with lion mask and ring handles over leafy aprons on massive lion’s paw feet; the Brahmah type lock stamped “T. Davis from London” and impressed with the Royal Crown.
These extraordinary pieces are modelled on Regency wine coolers. The forms are classic Greco-Roman revival with the boat-hook handles, mythic figures and the overall sarcophagus pattern.
You would struggle to find one let alone a pair. Good items for any collection.
Research on going into these strong boxes but we have found possible information on the lock stamped Davis….(historyoflocks )
The relationship of King George III and George Davis of Windsor, who was locksmith in ordinary to His Majesty. Davis, in 1799, invented and patented a unique style of lock, which was also beautifully engraved with a warning not to make duplicate keys. Sensitive government secrets always demanded, then as today, locks that were state of the art. Davis locks ended up on government dispatch boxes...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique English Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
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