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A beautiful antique marble stone fireplace to place around the fireplace. Recuperated from a mansion near Paris, France. It is in salmon color and made out of marble stone.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very nice Mahogany with Burr Walnut single drawer, centre table or small desk with the original porcela...

A very good quality Victorian period corinthian column lamp, having a fluted column, classical stepped base and claw feet.

Pair of 18th century soft-paste porcelain dishes finely decorated in the 19th century with medallions representing Japanese theatre characters dressed in traditional costumes, beautiful gold-embossed ornament on a polychrome background. These dishes are to be linked with the production of the Sèvres Manufacture. The Manufacture de Sèvres, factory of soft-paste porcelain, was founded in 1738 at Vincennes by bankers and financiers hoping to discover the secret of making hard-paste porcelain, used in Meissen at the time. In 1753, King of France Louis XV became the main shareholder of the factory, transferring it to Sèvres, closer to Versailles and the castle of Bellevue, owned by la Marquise de Pompadour, very interested by Sèvres’ research and supportive of the works. In 1759, the King became the sole shareholder of the Manufacture, making it the property of the French Crown. From this day on, the Sèvres artworks were marked with the royal seal, two intertwined “L’s”, as well as a letter indicating the year of creation. The period between 1756 and 1779 represents the most prosperous years for the factory. To support Sèvres, Louis XV made sumptuous orders offered as diplomatic presents. The main artists at the time, such as painters Boucher and Bachelier or sculptors Falconet and Boizot, worked for the factory. Research on the making of hard-paste porcelain kept going and succeeded after 1769. From this year, Sèvres successfully produced both soft-paste and hard-paste porcelain. It is also during this period that the most beautiful and singular colors were invented: bleu lapis in 1752, bleu celeste in 1753, green in 1756, famous pink in 1757 and royal blue in 1763. The most significant pieces are ornamented with scenes inspired by engravings from famous painters (Boucher) and ornamentalists. They are also decorated with garlands, bunches of flowers, trophies, gildings… The fine quality of Sèvres’ production covers a large range of statuettes (Falconet’s threatening Love), full services (Rambouillet’s service is presented to Marie-Antoinette in 1788), as well as utilitarian or ornamental items. The role played by haberdashers in the production’s development is essential. They originated trends around Sèvres-designed products, such as Daguerre who decorated his most precious furniture with porcelain...

Meissen gorgeous figurine group of stunning appearance. There are six gardeners - flanked by a tall tree - visible. MANUFACTORY:  MEISSEN (M939) DATING: THIRD QUARTER OF 19TH...

A real rare and unique piece, this beautiful Victorian purse is crafted in 15 carat yellow gold. Across the top of the purse a single turquoise is on display flanked by a total of 0...

Hallmarked in London in 1879 by Martin, Hall & Co., this stunning, Antique Sterling Silver Bowl, is in the Aesthetic taste, featuring cast and applied floral and butterfly detailing,...

Beautiful fireplace to place arround the chimney. It is from the 19th Century. Recuperated from a mansion near Amsterdam. A unique piece. In perfect condition!

Long skirt in fabric and lamé. No composition or size tag, it fits a size 38FR. Additional information: Dimensions: Waist: 37 cm (14.56"), Hips: 57 cm -(22.44"), Length: 101 cm (39...

Mahogany chest of drawers. Circa 1870.

A fine pair of neoclassical style gilt and patinated bronze seven light candelabras by FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE Original condition this pair was never touch.

Very nice and original French Napoleon III Period pair of melting decorative kitchen Credenza. Representing a men with animals and angels. Very or...

Hallmarked in Birmingham, in 1870 by John Gough, this striking, Victorian, antique silver claret Jug, features cut glass, and engraved decora...

Fine Japanese porcelain pumpkin 'Gourd' shape painted and lacquered large vase. The white porcelain vase is decorated with black lacca panels, fine...

Rococo style mirror in gilded carved wood. Circa 1870 H 140cm x W 72cm x D 7cm

Pair Of Oil Portraits From The 19th Century Italy XIX Eme Pair of oil portraits from 1879 signed: Armani. Italy 19th century. Oil on canvas. Very good general condition. Measurements...

Walnut mirror. Napoleon III period France, circa 1870 Good condition. Dimensions: height 127 cm width 81 cm depth 8 cm

A magnificent polished Belgium Black and Rosso Levanto marble chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner. The moulded shelf set over a panelled frieze, supported...

A stunning, fine and impressive antique 4.08 carat diamond and pearl, 12 karat and silver set earring and ring set; part of our antique jewelry and estate jewelry collections. This stunning, fine and impressive diamond and pearl jewellery set...

A 19th century orchestral double base case constructed from pine timber, with iron hardware and its original floral lining to the interior. A spectacular and historic piece of sculpt...

TRAVAIL FRANÇAIS 1970 Paire de tabourets en métal doré à patine nuancée et montants à têtes de chevaux. Piètement d'angle à quatre jambes terminées par des sabots et réunies en partie basse par une entretoise en forme de X. Assises rectangulaires entièrement recouvertes de velours rouge. Historique : de tradition orale, la pièce fut acquise chez Hermès...

Stunning Viennese enamel vintage table clock - made of: -- silver -- nacre -- enamel (excellently chiselled) -- onyx -- semiprecious stones Attention: The table clock is par...

Large Napoleon III period bronze sculpture by Jules Bertin French, 1879 Measures: Height 140cm, width 58cm, depth 58cm This exceptional sculpture is by Jules Bertin, a leading F...

Gothic Revival pair of mahogany chairs Original leather seats Brass Castors Egyptianesque design and ebony detailing Circa 1870 Holland & Sons

Antique Bing & Grøndahl chocolate jug in porcelain modelled with a lion on the handle. Hand-painted flowers and gold decoration. 1870s. Measures: 24.5...

Antique Bing & Grøndahl chocolate jug in porcelain modelled with a lion on the handle. Hand-painted flowers and gold decoration. 1870s. Measures: 25 x...

Antique Bing & Grøndahl chocolate jug in porcelain with hand-painted purple and gold decoration. Rare model. 1870s. Measures: 18 x 15.5 cm. In good ori...

Antique Bing & Grøndahl chocolate jug in porcelain modelled with a lion on the handle. Hand-painted flowers and gold decoration. 1870s. Measures: 24.5 x 16.5 cm. In good original...

Heading : Tunbridge ware tea caddy by Thomas Barton c1870 Date : c1870 Period : Victoria Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent Decoration : Central floral mosaic with dentil stringing. ...

An original Welsh Lambing Chair Sourced from Anglesey. Painted Elm. Pierced love heart to the back , original dog kennel and carved nibbles to the base. Historic repairs, good or...

Mid Victorian Mahogany wine table. circa 1870 Standing upon a platform base with bun feet and features a ring turned and shaped column and a solid mahogany top. A simple but elega...

Wimbledon-Furniture We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare original pair of Japanese Meiji bronze candlestick holders wrapped with dragons circa 1870 A lovely decor...

Large Louis XIV style mirror with mirror bars in blackened wood and rich gilded and embossed copper decoration. The pediment is adorned with a motif of a basket of overflowing flower...

Jules James Rougeron (1841-1880). French artist. Figure and genre painter. Pastel on paper. Reclining lady, circa 1870. In style of F. Goya 'Maya'. In...

Two door glazed walnut bookcase / cabinet with ormolu mounts on turned feet. Circa 1870 H 112cm x W 121cm x D 37cm

Giovanni (Nino) Costa (Rome 1826 – Marina di Pisa 1903), The ‘Alba’ study for The awakening of nature Oil on canvas cm 25 x 53 signed lower left. Provenance: Reverend Stopford Br...

A Victorian diamond, pearl, silver, and yellow gold brooch, comprising fifteen rose cut diamonds, and two pearls, set in silver, with 9 karat yellow gold brooch pin and fittings. T...

ca 1800 English oak rocking chair Lovely chair, chair is in very good vintage condition. Measures: Seat height: 40cm, height: 80cm, depth: 75cm, width: 48cm.

An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver salad servers; an addition to our silver flatware collection. These exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver salad servers have an oval rounded bowl onto an elongated stem. The surface of each piece is plain and unembellished, with a plain rounded heel. The bowl of the serving fork incorporates six shaped tines. These impressive examples of silver cutlery are fitted with impressive carved stained wood handles, with knopped terminals. These exceptional Victorian salad servers...

Napoleon III French ebonized walnut table, 1870s.

A pair of pretty but not overly fussy late C19th upholstered later painted Swedish open armchairs. The backs have a decorative fretwork border detail and turned stretchers. Reuphols...

A fine pair of antique French porcelain and fire gilded ormolu candelabra. Superb quality ormolu and very finely hand painted Bleu du Roi jewelled Paris porcelain. The candleholders ...

An attractive French Napoleon III antique mantel clock in original ormolu and fine pink, handpainted and jewelled porcelain. The clock sits upon its ori...

Large bust of Adolphe Burggraeve (1806-1902), great humanist, surgeon and professor of medicine at the University of Ghent, inventor of dosimetric medicine,...

Pair of covered vases, in finely chased bronze with a rich rotating decoration, depicting a round of putti after Claude Michel (1738 -1814 in Paris) known as CLODION, the stylized ha...

Two bronze proofs with golden patina by Auguste Louis Lalouette (1826-1883), depicting "Le Défi" on a marble base. The duelists, dressed in 16th-century fashion, are dressed with gre...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and very rare pair of original 1879 James Kebberling Bembridge sterling silver Corinthian pillared candlestick lamps fully hallmarked...

Mahogany French centre table, circa 1870. This centre table stands upon shaped legs with carved knees & feet. The frieze of the table being of a similar form. The top of the table fe...

Behold this magnificent bronze sculpture depicting a possibly Greek lady seated, delicately holding a pencil. Crafted with exquisite detail, the sculpture boasts a silver finish that...

Heading : Tunbridge ware glove box by Thomas Barton c1870 Date : c1870 Period : Victoria Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent Decoration : Dome topped with Berlin-woolwork mosaic to c...

Heading : Tunbridge ware tea caddy depicting battle abbey gatehouse Date : c1870 Period : Victoria Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent Decoration : Central image depicts Battle Abbey Gate...

Miss Ethel Mortlock an oil on canvas called 'Town' of Marie Adelaide Brassey (aged 3) who became Marchioness of Willingdon (see below) and is buried in the Nave at Westminster Abbey, signed and dated 1878. Picture 60 x 45 cm Ethel Mortlock (1865-1928) an extraordinary woman and sought after portrait painter, she painted this aged 16!. Born in Cambridge and lived in London. She exhibited at The Royal Academy between years 1878-1893 no less than 29 paintings also at the Grosvenor Galleries. Many of Paintings in museums (See History below and her sitters). Marie Adelaide Brassey - Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Thomas , 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India. She became : Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917, Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal , Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of St John (D.J.St. J.),Decorated with the Order of Mercy. Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917. Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours. Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia. The Lady Willingdon Hospitol in Lahore, Pakistan is named after her .The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. About Ethel Mortlock : Her clientèle of sitters included members of the aristocracy and European nobility and included, by her account, the Shah of Persia (1900) and the ‘Chinese Ambassador’, Li Hung Chang (who was actually the Chinese Viceroy), à propos which sitting the Sketch published an illustrated interview with Ethel in August 1896. Ethel was thought pretty grand by the American papers who reported that Chang had to go to her studio for sittings in 1896 rather than she wait upon him. He brought her a roll of silk and a white jade palette as presents. Li Hung Chang was a pretty big cheese; his wife had two thousand servants waiting on her. The Chatham, NY, Courier reported that Ethel had painted every Ambassador who had come to London. These last clients, allegedly by failing to pay the £1000 charged for their portraits, landed Ethel in trouble. They were, of course, conveniently unavailable to the bankruptcy commissioners so this sob-story could not be checked. Strapped for cash she was caught out when the executors of a racehorse owner called Edward Overall Bleakley found, in his effects, IOUs for hundreds of pounds (Bleakley had bequeathed his own portrait by Ethel to Manchester Infirmary [Daily News, 1.8.98]). Ethel went to court, claiming that these were offset by painting commissions, but the court found against her and she was told to pay up. Now saddled with legal costs, she was caught again when Captain Noel Hoare, her man of business, died and it was found that he had mortgaged to Hoare’s Bank, without her knowledge (she said), three properties in Sloane Street that she had been building. She tried to buy back one of these but lost a £500 deposit when she could not complete, making a bad situation rather worse. Bleakley’s executors now broke her and her examination in bankruptcy in 1901 can be read in the PRO as above. Her troubles were attributed to extravagance and betting - the Bleakley IOUs were assumed to be in fact gambling debts and the creditors now included all sorts of tradesmen and the Hotel Cecil where Ethel was then living, presumably in some style. She did not help herself by claiming an income of £250 p.a. when individual commissions were on her own account at the £1000 mark as above, meaning that the Chinese and Persian portraits alone would have occupied her last eight years and she would have obtained these prestigious commissions at the age of 18 (she gave her age as 26). Faced by the raised eyebrows of her superiors in mental arithmetic Ethel then upped her declared usual income to a still rather modest £800. She claimed to keep no sort of cash book, accounts, or any memoranda. Proceedings closed with Ethel declared bankrupt and a number of people out of pocket; the settlement was at 7/6 in the pound. Ethel went back to her easel. Some financial aspects seem never to have been sorted out; funds in Chancery relating to her, Hoare and Bleakley were still being recorded in the London Gazette every few years at least up to 1938; maybe the born in Cambridge; she appears never to have married. The 1881 census had not heard of her - she may have been in the United States at that time. However, standard works about Victorian painters, such as the Antique Collectors’ Club Dictionary of British Artists (Johnson %26 Greutzner, 1976) and their Dictionary of Victorian Painters (C Wood, 2nd edition, 1978) tell us that she was a pupil of Sir William Orchardson (who came to London in 1863) and that by 1904 she had exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy. I have listed these, usually prestigious, sitters, who included Don Carlos...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian sterling silver parcel gilt goblet; an addition to our London silver wine and drinks related silverware collection. This except...

A magnificent polished Belgium Black and Rosso Levanto marble chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner. The moulded shelf set over a panelled frieze, supported...

Antique Victorian sterling silver small cream jug with scenes. Made in England, Ca.1870's Maker: Maker's mark is partially faded. Approx. Dimensions - Diameter x height: 6....

Half set in 18 karat yellow gold, eagle head hallmark. Magnificent set of Napoleon 3 antique jewelry, the brooch and the pair of earrings are adorned with an oval chiseled pattern. The applied motifs such as ribbons, are enamelled black and decorated with fine baroque pearls. Several cushion- cut rubies complete the decoration. The attachment system of the antique brooch is a pin with safety. The earrings are attached to the back of the earrings with a breakaway. Total weight of the rubies of the brooch : 0,60 carat approximately. Total weight of the rubies of the earrings : 0,30 carat approximately. Diameter of the pearls : from 3/3,5 to 5/5,5 mm approximately. Width of the brooch : 5,8 cm, height : 4,3 cm approximately, thickness : 17 mm approximately. Height of the earrings : 3 cm approximately, width : 18.2 mm approximately, thickness : 9 mm approximately. Total weight of the set : 22 g approximately. Authentic antique jewelry set...

Heading : Tunbridge ware writing slope with image of Tonbridge Castle by Thomas Barton c1875 Date : c1875 Period : Victoria Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent Decoration :Main panel ...

Immerse yourself in the majestic world of antiques with these beautiful 3-arm candle holders made of sturdy and exquisite brass. Each candle holder proudly rises to a height of 32 ce...

SOLD UNFRAMED Montagnard des Environs de Szczaronica by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889) Watercolour 26.3 x 20 cm (10 ⅜ x 7 ⅞ inches) Signed and dated lower right, F. Tepa 1873 Artist ...

Antique gilded wall mirror, Germany around 1870 Rectangular gold frame with high lavish crowning. Ornate frame. Germany around 1870