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Dressing customers walls, first peices.

Last night after closing shop I visited my customers home, they recently purchased some beautiful art from me, as Julian Stafford, Picture Rail Systems hung them yesterday.

They look perfect for the spaces intended and Julian did a fantastic job!

 

Small unusual gifts in my showroom.

An exact Queen Anne style copy of a dinner bell, remarkably well done.
Carved Jade Leaves, Weights 61g, 46g, 43g. Total 153g.
The Georgian House, built from sandstone bricks, quarried by convict labor. Built in traditional English style.

Pair of 80s retro world globe book ends.

Burr walnut and ebonised bases, with rotating word globes.
In 17th century style including sailing ships, sea monsters and unicorns.
One side faded (window facing) the other richer in colour.
Italy
H.17cm W.15cm D.11cm each.

Rare 19th century French solid kingwood ‘whatnot’

This rare 19th century French solid kingwood whatnot is certainly a work of cabinetmaker, leader of Japonism, Gabriel Viardot (1830-1904).

It is surmounted by a varnished polished bronze dragon that is frequently found in the cabinetmaker’s production.

The lower part also has shelves whose upright is decorated with a wrapped dragon in varnished polished bronze.

H.98cm
W.69cm
D.40cm

Orthoceras Fossil

Dating back to the Ordovician period.
Orthoceras was an ancient cephalopod that lived about 370 million years ago.

The name means straight horn, referring to the characteristic long, straight, conical shell.

The preserved shell is all that remains of this ancestor of our modern-day squid.

20 x 32cm

Approx 370 million years old.