Antiques

Origin: Central EuropeanPeriod: Earl/Mid 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1840Width: 38”Height: 31”Depth: 16” (all at top)The original glorious powder azure blue painted pine carcass, beautifully distressed with age, with a moulded cornice top above an arrangement of three long oak lined drawers, having later primitive wirework handles...

Origin: Italian, VenetianPeriod: Mid/Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870Height: 34.5”Depth: 5”Width: 8.25” (all at extremities)The polychrome painted wooden torchère figure of a blackamoor, showing traces of the original gilding, modelled in standing pose with a turban and one arm aloft holding a spiral torch issuing fruit...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: William IVProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1835Height: 19.25”Width: 8”Depth: 8”The scarce and early bronze and brass table lamp by renowned English maker Osler, stamped to one foot OSLER, being crisply cast and having a fluted four candelabra branch mid-section to a tripod base and terminating...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid-VictorianProvenance: Wormington Grange, EnglandDate: c.1870-90Width: 12”Depth: 8”Height: 20.5” Base Diameter: 7.75” (all at extremities)The very decorative plaster portrait bust of Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), in his prime years, modelled after the Greek original held at the Museo Nazionale in Naples, sometimes described as...

Origin: English ColonialPeriod: Nineteenth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1850Length: 19 inchesWidth: 11.5 inchesHeight: 8 inchesSlope (fully extended): 15 inches H x 19 inches LThe lid and sides of richly figured thuya, with brass strung borders and decorative corners, on the lid the border encloses a central...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid-VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1895Width: 38”Height: 15”Depth: 1.5” (the tray)Example Letter Height: 3.75” for PThe collection of approximately one hundred and twenty three letterpress printing blocks, presented in their original wooden stained tray from the print house, the font being an elongated, sans serif...

Origin: ItalianPeriod: Early/Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1930-40Height: 18.75”Width: 33”The scarce child's Mickey Mouse mat or rug, depicting the cartoon characters of Mickey and Minnie ice skating to a gold ground, being Italian in origin under license from Disney and surviving from the 1930s in good...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20th CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1920Height: 43.5 inchesTier Width: 10 inches Tier Depth: 10 inchesOf tapering form, the two-tier jardinière is painted in French grey underneath with a lime white finish. The tier sides have attractive keyhole shaped cutouts to each and this,...

Origin: Italian SchoolPeriod: BaroqueProvenance: Collection of an Illustrious family, Livorno, ItalyDate: c.1670Height: 12.75”Width: 9.5”Depth: 0.6”Painted in oils on thick panel, the Italian school work depicting Mary Magdalene, penitent for her sins and with a sorrowful expression, clutching a crucifix, with fleshy arms and bosom,...

Origin: ItalianPeriod: BaroqueProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1650-1700Height: 10.5”Width: 11”Depth: 1.5” (all in frame)Dating from the Baroque period the mid to late seventeenth century chapel dedication or devotional fragment in a near period scarlet painted pine and gesso moulded frame with a hand painted calligraphy parchment paper...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Charles II / James IIProvenance: Southwick Hall, NorthamptonshireDate: c.1680Height: 32”Width: 65”Depth: 28” (all at top)The unique oak refectory table having a three-plank top with extensive ancient chiselled graffiti, with initials of numerous persons, dates and motifs; the whole constructed from thick, well-seasoned...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Charles IIProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1680Height: 29.75”Width: 42”Depth: 25.5”The seventeenth century oak side table having a three-plank top with chip carved frieze above gun barrel and incised turned legs to block feet and conforming stretchers, the whole in beautifully dry aged condition, surviving from...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Jacobean/StuartProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1600-1650Height: 10.75”Width: 8.5”Depth: 15” (all with spout)The well carved period stone gargoyle, in complete condition with lead water spout, once party of a cathedral or church exterior, the gargoyle head fashioned in the medieval manner with furrowed brows and deep...

Origin: ScottishPeriod: James VIProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1575Height: 20.5”Width: 11.5” (to include seals)The wonderfully interesting sixteenth century document being a notarial instrument, with two red wax seals, and being unusual and rare in two written parts, survives from the third quarter of sixteenth century Scotland.The document...

Origin: Central ItalyPeriod: RenaissanceProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1560-80Height: 18.75”Width: 15.5”Depth: 2.25” (in frame) The Work: 14.5” high x 11.5” wideThe renaissance Italian school work of canvas laid to panel, in distressed but highly evocative condition, and almost certainly a fragment from a larger composition, the painting...

Origin: TaiwanesePeriod: Ayutthaya KingdomProvenance: The Royal NanhaiDate: c.1450-60Height: 10”Diameter: 7”Recovered from the Thai merchant ship 'Royal Nanhai' which sunk in 1460, with the wreck being discovered at a depth of 46 meters, 40 nautical miles offshore from Kuantan, West Malaysia, the iron glazed stoneware...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: RenaissanceProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1400-50 & laterHeight: 19”Width: 20”Depth: 14”The ancient French capital in oak, hailing from around the time of the battle of Agincourt, the chamfered legs added in the 19th century, the large primitive slab top with gadrooned carved frieze, now acting...

Origin: English Period: Mid-Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1967 Height: 12 inches Width: 9 inches Or 20” x 16.5” (The Frame) 'Spaceman', signed and dated '67 in pencil to the margin, worked in pencil and print, glazed and presented in the original frame, with...

Origin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1950-60 The Case: Depth: 8 inches Width: 21.5 inches Height: 17 inches Roll up, Roll Up! Enter the strange world of The Side Show and see the bearded lady, the living head, the fastest mathematician,...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: 21stCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.2013Height: 8.5”Width: 7”Depth: 10”The juvenile taxidermy domestic kitten or house cat (Felis catus), with green eyes and black and white coat, wonderfully poised in a freestanding and relaxed seated position, the whole surviving from the twenty first century in super...