Recent Acquisitions

A GEORGE IV BURR MAPLE WRITING-TABLE IN THE MANNER OF RICHARD BRIDGENS, CIRCA 1830.

The frieze fitted with two mahogany-lined drawers. The feet with concealed castors.

30in. (76cm) high; 48in. (122cm) wide; 26.5in. (67cm) deep.

£6,500

A FINE LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA AND SIMULATED-MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK, THE TERRACOTTA BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, CIRCA 1785.

 The drum case modelled as a wine cask supporting a seated figure of the drunken Silenus flanked by twin naked Bacchantes, indistinctly signed to the rear 'Marin', the white enamel dial with gilt bronze bezel and Arabic hours and quarter hours, pierced gilt hands, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel striking via two hammers to bells (lacking); on a faux marble and giltwood plinth.

15.5in. (39cm) high; 12in. (30.5cm) wide; 7.5in. (19cm) deep.

£7,500

AN EXCEPTIONAL EARLY NEO-CLASSICAL STATUARY MARBLE CHIMNEYPIECE, CIRCA 1760.

With moulded breakfront shelf, the tablet carved with a recumbent lion, on simple scrolled jambs.

51.25in. (130cm) high; 59.25in. (151cm) wide; 6in. (15cm) deep.

Aperture: 39.5in. (100cm) high x 41.25in. (105cm)

£85,000

Closely related chimneypiece at Foremark Hall, Derbyshire, circa 1761 and probably supplied by the sculptor Ricard Hayward.

AN EARLY VICTORIAN HUNGARIAN ASH WELLINGTON CHEST ATTRIBUTED TO HOLLAND & SONS, CIRCA 1860.

With six graduated cedar and mahogany-lined drawers banded in a dark burr wood.

40in. (102cm) high; 24.25in. (62cm) wide; 19in. (48cm) deep.

£4,800

ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH NOLLEKENS (1737-1823)

A COMPANION OF ULYSSES, AFTER THE ANTIQUE BUST IN THE TOWNLEY COLLECTION, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LATE 18^TH CENTURY.

Statuary Marble. 

26in. (66cm) high; 15in. (38cm) wide; 12in. (31cm) deep.

£ POA

This bust is a late 18^th century English copy after the antique bust excavated from Hadrian’s Villa in 1769 and acquired by the great collector Charles Townley in 1772. The antique bust appears in Zoffany’s 1782 painting ‘Charles Townley in his Sculpture Gallery’. On Townley’s death in 1805 his collection, including ‘Companion of Ulysses’ was acquired by the British museum.