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Still life painting of fruit and a parrot by French artist Eugène Boudin French, 1869 Canvas: Height 90cm, width 80cm This very fine still life painting is by the French artist Eugè...

A Victorian gold twist bracelet with gold locket, the bracelet designed as a twist with round rings set between each twist, suspending a gold heart...

19th Century walnut and marquetry pier cabinet, having a nice figured stepped and moulded edge top above a marquetry inlaid frieze with decorative inlay, a single glazed door below o...

JUST PURCHASED MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW OR BY REQUEST, photos taken with iphone Heavyweight tapestry curtain perfect for a doorway to keep draughts at bay. With stylised large flo...

French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with silver highlights mantel clock. A superb Napoleon III clock in the Louis XVIth style. The original fire/mercury gilt ormolu in very good...

A Victorian garnet, diamond and pearl bracelet with a central cabochon-cut garnet measuring 18.5 x 14mm, surrounded by four sections of five...

A mid-Victorian half pearl, diamond and blue enamel suite, the suite consisting of a necklace, a bracelet and a pair of earrings, each set to the ...

Stunning Napolean III French Ormolu and white marble clock with gilded Baccanalian frieze decoration to the base and seated a classical lady standing on six gilded button feet. Enam...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare, antique circa 1860, hand carved English Oak Eagle console table with fine Italian C...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver gilt and cranberry glass dish; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver dish has an oval form. The sterling silver body of the antique dish is embellished with impressive pierced decorated interlacing scrolling decoration, accented with simplified floral motifs, in addition to scrolling leaf designs to the lower portion. The body is further embellished with four large embossed swag style leaf designs. The large leaf designs alternate with embossed bead bordered cartouches, three incorporating cast and applied floral spray medallions and the fourth incorporating monogrammed initials. The upper rim of the dish is encompassed with an applied bead decorated border. This exceptional dish is fitted with two cast and applied handpieces, incorporating a figural mask encompassed with scrolling decoration. The dish is supported by an oval domed spreading foot, embellished with further pierced decorated scrolling leaf decoration. This antique centrepiece is fitted with the impressive original cranberry glass liner. The surface of this exceptional sterling silver dish retains the original parcel gilding. This ornate dish is the finest of its type you could hope to acquire. Condition This antique glass dish is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and in exceptional presentation condition. Full hallmarks struck to the surface of the dish are all very clear; the hallmarks are struck deeply due to the exceptional gauge of silver. Reflections in photographs may detract from the true representation of this antique red glass...

JUST PURCHASED, MORE INFORMATION SOON OR ON REQUEST, images taken with iphone Beautifully worked in a naive characterful manner with flowers and songbirds. It has some oxidised tack...

Hallmarked in London in 1756 by John Priest, this charming pair of George II period, Antique Sterling Silver Candlesticks, are in the 'Four Shell' design, and feature removable nozzl...

A good quality French bronze and ormolu clock garniture, having bronze cherubs mounted either side of the clock and supporting the five branch candelabra. Retailer; Humbert.

Fine French Tortoiseshell Boulle Mantel Clock by Brocot & Delettrez, Paris French Boulle clock housed in a fine quality torto...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite circa 1860 Continental Walnut & Marble chest of drawers with the original key A very good looking and well made piece, this is Bi...

An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver claret jugs made by Elkington & Co; an addition to our Victorian silverware collection These exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver jugs have a tapering ovoid body onto a circular domed foot, in a Classic ewer style. The waisted neck of the each jug is embellished with a bright cut engraved undulating band of stylised leaf decoration flanked by plain applied ornamentations in addition to a broad band of scroll and simplified Akroter designs. Each jug is ornamented with individual fine and impressive female Grecian style figures, the first bearing a vine terminating staff and holding out a handled bowl, another passive character featuring long braids in her hair and holding her skirt in one hand and a tied bundle of wheat in the other and the third holding in both hands grapes with flowing garments intertwining her body. The lower portion of each body is encircled with a band of lobed decoration incorporating a circular motif to each alternating terminal, all filled with a matte pattern. These antique silver jugs are fitted with hallmarked domed hinged covers surmounted with an impressive scrolling lobed thumbpiece and featuring an imposing scrolling hinge. These Victorian silver jugs are fitted with fine and impressive cast sterling silver ribbed handles embellished with leaf designs enveloping four scrolling branches. The domed foot of each solid silver jug...

A very impressive 19th century Viennese enamel table cabinet having gilded ormolu semi clad maidens surrounding two cherubs and a figure supporting a watch case. Enamel panels aroun...

A Victorian pearl, almandine garnet, demantoid garnet, and yellow gold ring, comprising three half pearls, two almandine garnets, and four demantoid garnets, in 15 karat yellow gold....

Hallmarked in Edinburgh in 1759 by Lothian & Robertson, this wonderful, George II, Antique Sterling Silver Teapot, is of inverted pear shape, and features Rococo influenced chased de...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare and extremely important hand carved walnut fully stamped library table by Angiolo Barbetti of Firenze What a find… this table is by one of the finest Italian carvers of all time, dating to circa 1860, Barbetti’s works sell in the hundreds of thousands, they are highly collectable, impossible to find and when they do come up for sale they usually end up in museum collections, they are simply that good This is an Italian carved walnut library or centre table, the cartouche shaped top with gadrooned edge and leather inset, the carved and pierced frieze incorporating a central shell motif flanked by scroll motifs with swags of flowers, each conforming cabriole shaped leg incorporating similar motifs and joined by an X-stretcher centred by a seated cherub, on scroll carved feet, the underside with branded stamp 'BARBETTI, FIRENZE' What more can I say! The condition is period correct and very fine, we have cleaned waxed and polished it from top to bottom, it is in gallery ready order throughout Dimensions: Height 82.5cm Width 142cm Depth 76cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point Angiolo Barbetti (1805 - 1873) was a skilled carver, designer and decorator, with a flourishing atelier in Florence during the nineteenth century. After working in his father Massimiliano's atelier in Siena, he took up an apprenticeship with Giovacchino Guidi (d. 1842), considered one of Siena's finest ebenisti. By 1826-7, he had established a workshop on the Piazza San Giovanni, Siena and in 1830 exhibited his first works at the Istituto delle Belle Arti, Siena. In 1842, Barbetti moved his workshop to Florence, establishing himself near the ponte alle Grazie. Important commissions from this period included carvings for the interiors of Villa San Donato for Prince Anatoly Demidoff. Barbetti took part in many of the international exhibitions of the second half of the nineteenth century, including the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, where he was awarded a medal for a suite of carved walnut furniture. Following the exhibition, the suite of furniture was purchased by the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum, where it remains today. Joined in the business by his four sons Rafaello, Egisto, Ottavio and Rinaldo by the beginning of 1860, the firm of Barbetti continued to find international success exhibiting successfully at the 1861 Florence exhibition, the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Makers Bibliography: Meyer, Jonathan, Great Exhibitions: London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, 1851 - 1900, Antique Collectors Club (Woodbridge, UK), 2006, p. 41. Simone Chiarugi, La bottega di Angiolo Barbetti a Siena e Firenze , in C. Paolini, A. Ponte and O. Selvafolta, Il bello ritrovato , Novara, De Agostini, 1990, pp. 220 223. Simone Chiarugi, La fortuna...

A Victorian blue leather oak library chair, the arched back continuous with the scroll arms, and carved with beribboned foliate sprays in the centre, the shaped seat rail set above t...

Stylish French clock set in the Retour d'Egypt style based on French Empire clocks from the early 19th century. The clock set upon a good rectangular Sienna marble base on which are ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand carved Victorian Ebonised and Giltwood library bookcase Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it covers within t...

Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA 1842 - 1921 The Shepherd Egg tempera on wooden panel, signed with initials bottom left Image size: 8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches Period gilt oak frame A newly discovered work by the artist. Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA was an English portrait painter, sculptor and a designer of stained glass and mosaic. He is best known for his portrait work and decorative mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral in London. He was the son of the portraitist George Richmond RA and studied at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1860s. Influenced by his father and by Sir John Everett Millais, he is best known for his mosaic decorations below the dome and in the apse of St Paul's Cathedral in London. His father, George Richmond, was one of 'the Ancients' who were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake. Samuel Palmer was an other of the ancients and a close friend of the family. Our painting could have been inspired by George Richmond’s engraving 'The Shepherd', 1827, but in our panel the shepherd is turned round facing away, and is playing a flute instead of resting on a staff. But the sheep and other elements are there. It is also suggestive of Welby Sherman's engraving after Samuel Palmer of the same name and date, but here the shepherd is sitting but like ours turned away. William Blake's is an altogether happier image given the figure is playing to his sheep. Our painting is playing with some of the same ideas and feels like the same sort of period, and the ‘fresco’ like chalk ground is interesting, as is the pen and ink finishing on the tempera. All three are strongly influenced by Blake's illustrations to Thornton's 'Virgil'. The shepherd and his flock are clearly based on Thenot and his sheep in the Frontispiece to Thornton. Blake Richmond wrote:"If there be the least value in my pictures, it is due to such lovely early impressions derived from the sweet poetic work of many of my father's contemporaries, Calvert, Blake and others, whose shadows are substance still to me" [Sir William Blake Richmond, letter to his father, 50 years after the death of William Blake, from Stirling op. cit p. 28]. Richmond was given private art lessons by John Ruskin before attending the Royal Academy for three years. After that he spent a number of years in Italy, where an encounter with a shepherd called Beppino, 'a splendid speciman of a Sabine Shepherd', could also have gave him the inspiration for the painting we show here. Richmond recalls how he met Beppino on the hillside, and was invited to share the shade of the shepherd's capanna, a wooden hut. 'What a place! In an instant of time I was back into the age of kings, and I knew Romulus had lived and am sure that he lived in a hut exactly like this one'. That night Richmond dined at Beppino's hut 'on roast kid, hard bread dipped in Roman wine, goat's cream and white ricotta'. The shepherd had such an impression on Richmond that he sought him out on a return visit to Italy some years later, but was saddened to hear that Beppino 'had joined his fore-fathers in the shades'. He was moved to write the following, which perfectly expresses the mood of this painting and his tribute to a fleeting companion: 'Little events of this kind unite past times with present, create and emphasis continuity of human instincts, which seem to defy time and make travel so intensely interesting and invigorating to a citizen of this world. One need not go to the palace, far otherwise, or to cities and towns to discover the kernal of enduring civilisations. One finds it, if one wills to do so, in the backbone of the world, an ancient peasantry who have watched and still watch the progress of the stars'. Richmond was influential in the early stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement in his selection of bold colours and materials for the mosaics in St. Paul's Cathedral and in his collaboration with James Powell and Sons...

Hallmarked in London in 1756 by Ebeneezer Coker, this striking, George II, antique sterling silver punch ladle, is in the Rococo ta...

This superb Grand Tour bronze study portrays a bust of Diana of Versailles or Diana the Huntress, considered in Roman and Hellenistic mythology as goddess and patroness of countryside, nature, hunters, wildlife and childbirth. This fine example is French, circa 1860. It is raised onto a sophisticated base with a thin bronze foot with a turned black slate plinth and above there is a highly decorative cast...

K0461 19th century wall mirror of versatile form could be positioned portrait or landscape, having original mirror plate with superb foxing in beautifully carved and gilded frame. Th...

19th century Copeland parian figure group “Go to sleep” after J Durham, published by the Art Union of London, of a girl holding a dog. Some slight damage...

Hallmarked in London in 1751 by William Shaw II & William Preist, this very handsome, George II period, Antique Sterling Silver Tankard, is of traditional form, with a domed lid, and...

You are viewing a wonderful pair of Italian majolica porcelain statues The male and female stand on the pedestal stands The overall height of the statues are 6.5 feet - 198 CM - so ...

This beautiful daisy cluster ring dates back over 150 years to c.1869. A central 0.20 carat old cut diamond is surrounded by eight 0.05 carat diamonds of the same cut. The stones ran...

This reverse glass painting shows the silhouettes of three British naval ships of the line within a ropework border, their outlines inside the glass casting shadows on the cream grou...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver cream jug made by John Hunt & Robert Roskell; an addition to ou...

A fine Dutch ebonized and repousse gilt-metal cushion mirror. The rectangular beveled mirror plate with ebonized frame and marginal borders, surmount...

Vctorian burr walnut credenza. This quality credenza is raised upon a plinth base. Circa 1860 Having 2 mirrored central doors flanked by carved corbels . Having shaped open shelves t...

Victorian Walnut Open Arm Chair. This Arm Chair is Raised upon Cabriole Legs with Carved Toes and Carved Knees and Retain the Original Porcelain Castors. Circa 1860 The Swept Arms Ha...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly collectable set of six original Victorian mahogany framed dining chairs with Napoleonic blue bordered Turkey Kilim Rug upholstery which are part of a suite These have a very rare upholstery which is called Turkey work, it’s a kind of Kilim rug which has been used for century’s to upholstery English country house furniture...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1860-1880 Chinese hand painted with Pagoda's oak chest of drawers This chest of drawers is just about as lovely a p...

Staffordshire Pottery spill vase with a pastoral theme which features a cow, stood on an oval base. A thistle grows from under the cow. The piece is titled, 'MILK SOLD HERE'. Russet ...

Hallmarked in London in 1861 by Henry Holland, this stunning, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Goblet, is campagna shaped, and features chased floral and scroll decoration to the b...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very fine antique pie crust edge tripod table after the original by Gillow's of Lancaster with flamed mahogan...

A tall pair of brass Arts & Crafts andirons fire dogs with large bulbous segmented finials set on V-shaped plinth feet. The brass is mounted on wrought-iron standard. Height of rear ...

Two door mahogany chifonnier with two tier back. Circa 1860. H 154cm x W 131cm x D 49cm

Sn4656 Exceptional quality Reformed Gothic oak collectors cabinet, having outswpet cornice with above a pair of glazed doors fitted with original working lock and a key, enclosing 22...

Hallmarked in London in 1757 by Henry Bailey, this very handsome, George II, antique sterling silver basting spoon, is in 'Old English' pattern, and has an unusual and very large bow...

Victorian 2 over 3 mahogany bow chest of drawers. Circa 1860 This chest of drawers stands upon turned feet. The graduated drawers being ash lined and retain their original turned kno...

A magnificent boxed antique Victorian jewelry set consisting of necklace, bracelet, earrings and brooch ; part of our diverse antique jewelry and estate jewelry collections. This magnificent, fine and impressive Victorian cabochon cut agate jewelry set has been crafted in a combination of 18k gold and 15k gold. The antique jewelry suite...

A beautiful first edition set of Wilkie Collin's important sensation mystery novel, very scarce to see a set of all first editions volumes. The sought after first edition, first sta...

A very fine pair of mid-Victorian parcel gilt bronze oil lamps, by Hinks, each modelled as a bearded warrior dressed in the style of a Saxon king with a crowned helmet, broadsword and double-headed battle axe, standing in front of a slender scroll support surmounted by a cut glass oil reservoir, all set on a shaped ormolu base encircled with a victor’s wreath of oak leaves, and raised on an octagonal bronze base, converted to electricity, stamped ‘Hinks & Sons Patent’ on the fitting. English, circa 1860. Footnote: James Hinks (1816-1905). Leaving home at 16 he tried many trades from wood turning, japanning, brush making, die sinking, medal making and even being a pub landlord, before manufacturing oil lamps. Working from the Crystal Lamp Works, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, he was joined by his son Joseph and renamed the company ‘James Hinks and Son in 1862’. They won a patent for ‘improvements in lamps’ the following year and swiftly launched the ‘Patent Duplex Lamp...

A wonderful antique Victorian walnut vanity mirror. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1860-1880 period. This is really well made, it is a useful and versatile item....

A fabulous and very rare antique English, Egyptian revival mantel clock with fusee movement by John Moore and Sons of London. This clock has a number of very unusual features. Constr...

A stunning, fine and impressive, large antique Victorian 14.32 carat citrine and natural pearl, 20 karat yellow gold brooch; part of our diverse antique jewelry and estate jewelry collections. This stunning and large Victorian brooch has been crafted in 20k yellow gold. The oval frame of this gold brooch is embellished with a feature claw set 14.32ct oval faceted cut citrine, encompassed with a rope twist decorated border. The stunning citrine is encompassed with an impressive protruding conjoined yellow gold scroll designs, ornamented with a matte texture in addition to scrolling ornamentation to the inner rim. The junction of each scroll design is further embellished with an impressive claw set natural pearl, surmounting a plain ball motif. The large plain convex oval frame...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and important suite of six original Victorian Walnut Eton College captains chairs each one carved with EC in the back rest A substantial find, I have never seen one of these let alone a suite of six, perfect for a gentleman’s club or the perfect height for luxury dining chairs In terms of the condition they are circa 1860, hand carved from solid slabs of walnut, they have traces of the original varnish which has worn away over the decades to reveal the glorious timber patina. They have various small repairs here and there as you would expect Dimensions Height 78cm, seat height 41cm Width 58cm Depth 61cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point Eton college has been attended by some important people over the years to include Hugh Laurie, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. ... Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex...

Victorian Burr Walnut Shaped Stretcher table. Circa 1860 Having nicely carved swept legs and carved feet. The Lyre end supports featuring deep carvings an a nicely turned stretcher r...

Swedish sofa made of nordic pine in the early 19th Century. Scraped back to original paint colour, there are lovely hues of green-blue as well as the wood patina showing through. Sea...

Set of 6 walnut Victorian Cabriole Leg dining chairs. These dining chairs stand upon Typical Victorian Cabriole legs. Having a Stuff Over S...

Heading : Tunbridge ware stationery box with writing slope Date : c1860 Period : Victoria Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent Decoration : Central image of a stag, floral banding to b...

Victorian, Mahogany & Gilt Brass Revolving Canterbury on stand Gilt Brass Framed 2 section on top, to hold Newspapers & Magazines, Arch shaped middle with rococo shaped handle, Pai...

Hallmarked in Newcastle in 1756, this attractive, George II, Antique Sterling Silver Tankard, has been later chased during the victoria...

You are viewing a unique pair of antique bronze Marley Horses We date these to circa 1860 Patina to the bronze is superb check out details like the muscle tone Stand on the bases whi...