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Gillows attributed In the style of E. W. Godwin. Aesthetic Movement walnut octagonal two-tier side table with turned and incised legs uniting to the lower shelf and turned stretchers...

Liberty & Co., attributed, To Leonard Wyburd A rare Arts and Crafts oak fire screen decorated with a hand-hammered and hand-riveted circular copper device to the centre. Stood on sle...

Liberty & Co., attributed An Aesthetic Movement hexagonal side table with herringbone inlay to the edge of the top and a molded edge with shaped aprons below, standing on six legs un...

E. W. Godwin attributed An Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement walnut side chair with a lattice style back, and tramline decoration throughout. This rare variation has Thebes-style fro...

A rare newspaper basket in walnut designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens during the Arts and Crafts movement (1880–1910). Created for his own househol...

E. W. Godwin for Gillows attributed, Aesthetic Movement Walnut and Ebonized Canterbury With elongated turned uprights that make up the dividers for magazines, it stood on turned and ...

A Rare Tear Drop Vaseline Glass Shade with Peacock Feather Motifs and Green-White Tint Diameter for gallery or lampshade hole: 8cm/3.15" Inches.

A Set of Three Acid-Etched Frosted Glass Shades With intricate floral and garland motifs, featuring a tapered square form and decorative banded detailing. Diameter of a lampshade hol...

A Rare Vaseline Arts and Crafts Shade with Peacock Feather Motif and Bulbous Design Diameter for gallery or the lampshade hole: 8cm/3.15" Inches.

A Pair of Frosted Glass Shades With a soft finish and teardrop shape, these shades are designed for the gallery or the lampshade hole. Diameter: 8.5cm/3.35" inches.

Pleated Bell-Shaped Satin Glass Shade With a flowing design and subtle purple hue. Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Set of Six Clear Ribbed Glass Shades With bell shape and ruffled rim. Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 5.5cm/2.17" Inches.

Clear Glass Shade with Holophane Texture and Teardrop Shape Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 8.5cm/3.35" Inches.

A Set of Six Pineapple Cut Glass Shades with Intricate Design Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 8.5cm/3.35" Inches.

A Rare Tear Drop Vaseline Glass Shade with Stylized Peacock Feather Motifs Diameter for gallery or lampshade hole: 8.5cm/3.35" Inches.

Wheel-Turned Clear Glass Shade with Peacock Feather Design Textured top diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 8cm/3.15" Inches.

A Frosted Glass Shade with a Feather-Like Embossed Pattern and Flared Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Pair of Vaseline Glass Shades with Radiating Striped Patterns and Ruffled Rim Diameter of a lampshade hole: 2.8 cm/1.10" Inches.

A set of Five Opalescent Vaseline Glass Shades with Wavy Ruffled Rims and Blue Hues Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Set of Six Vaseline Glass Shades with an Opalescent Finish and Ruffled Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole:

A Pair of Opalescent Glass Shades With striking feathered patterns and a flared petal-shaped rim. Diameter of a lampshade hole: 9.5cm/3.74" Inches.

A Pair of Frosted Glass Shades with Feather-Like Embossed Pattern and Flared Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A. Clear Glass Shade with a Leaf-Like Embossed Pattern and Scalloped Ruffled Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Pair of Frosted Glass Shades with Teardrop Embellishments and Ruffled Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Frosted Glass Shade with Teardrop Embellishments and a Gently Ruffled Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

An Acid Etched Vaseline Glass Shade with Floral Motifs and a Deep Pink-Tinted Flared Rim Diameter of lampshade hole: 3cm.

A Rare Tear Drop Vaseline Glass Shade with an Alternating Teardrop Motif Design Diameter for gallery or lampshade hole: 8cm/3.15" Inches.

E. W. Godwin attributed, Small Aesthetic Movement Rosewood two-tier side or coffee table On turned and incised legs with angled supports uniting the legs to the lower shelf.

Frosted Vaseline Glass Shade with Green Teardrop Accents and Ruffled Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Frosted Glass Shade with a Flowing Swirl Design and Ruffled Undulating Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

Frosted Glass Shade with Diamond Quilted Pattern and Tapered Teardrop Shape Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 8cm/3.15" Inches.

A Pair of Frosted Glass Shades With gently draped and flowing rims, these shades create a soft, flowing form.

A Frosted Glass Shade with a Subtle Finish and Gently Flared Wide Rim Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

A Set of Six Opalescent Blue Vaseline Glass Shades with Textured Design and Delicately Ruffled Edges Diameter of a lampshade hole: 2.7 cm/1.06" Inches. One of the lampshade holes is ...

A satin-finished Vaseline Glass Shade with green tinted flared bell-shaped rim. Diameter of lampshade hole: 3cm.

Striped Vaseline Glass Shade with Ribbed Bell Shape and Soft Pink Accents Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.

Arts and Crafts Frosted Glass Shade Frosted glass shade with Greek key motif and flared rim. Diameter for gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" inches.

A Frosted Glass Shade with Subtle Vertical Ribbing and Flared Base Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 2.5cm/0.98" Inches.

W. A. S. Benson A rare Arts & Crafts copper & brass five-branch chandelier with the original ceiling plate to the top and a turned support below connected to three chains hanging do...

A rare pair of Arts and Crafts ceiling lamps Hand-hammered and hand-formed with hand-wheel-cut glass bowls retaining their original ceiling roses. Length of chain 24".

Alfred Bucknell attributed blacksmith. A fine quality Arts and Crafts Cotswold School steel adjustable standard lamp with finely chased detailed decoration typical of Bucknell's work...

George Walton. A rare Arts and Crafts walnut desk almost identical to the desk Walton designed in 1898 for Sidney Leetham for the morning room in Elm Bank, a major interior commission in York, England. This desk is a complex hybrid design. The overhanging top with central arched cupboard...

George Trollope and Sons. Exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878 winning a Gold Medal for Excellence. The set forms the four sides of a complete panelled room that was exhibited as a boudoir room or petit salon at the Paris Exhibition 1878 . The main feature and centrepiece of this boudoir room is the Rosso Antico marble fireplace surmounted by an open display niche carved in cedar wood. Each side of the room is composed of various panels and are as follows: One side with a grand Rosso Antico marble fireplace flanked by two doorways. One side with French doors originally opening onto a balcony, flanked by two large bookshelves. One side with a window flanked by two mirrors. The opposite side with three large mirrors. The complete room measures: 21 ft / 6.4 m wide, 17 ft / 5.18 m deep, and 12 ft / 3.65 m high. It could also be used in a number of different combinations to suit various room layouts. The mirrors could be replaced with windows or further bookcases. Each side is decorated with various sizes of finely carved panels and holds ornate Corinthian style columns surmounted with cherubim's on the capitals. Three cherubs are formed at the top of each corner with three columns, at the column bases there are circular carved pedestals to display statues. Published & illustrated in the ‘Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition’. The main part of this room, the Rosso Antico marble fireplace is surmounted by a large open display niche carved in cedar wood are illustrated with a line drawing in the Paris Universal Exhibition catalogue on page 209. The whereabouts of the seminaked caryatids and the marble bust of Alexander Pope are unknown. The bust of Alexander Pope was copied from the original one in Westminster Abbey, London. The Corinthian columns now flanking the niche above the fireplace are also in cedar wood having the identical carved fluting to the rest of the room and were made to replace the caryatid figures. Those Corinthian columns are period to the room and can only have been made shortly after it arrived back to London and before it was reassembled and fitted into the house built by George Trollope and Sons in the 1880's, and where we removed it all from. George Trollope made clever use of Alexander Pope's early 18th-century poetical successes in Great Britain and France by using ‘The Rape of Lock’, a mock-heroic narrative poem Pope wrote in 1712 about Petre who cut off a lock of Arabella’s hair without her permission, as the theme of the boudoir room or petit salon at the 1878 Paris Exhibition. In the original exhibition display of the room set, tapestries depicting the Rape of Lock were hung where the mirrors are now positioned. Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of 18th-century high society. Basing his poem on an actual incident among two families of his acquaintance, Pope intended his verses to quench hot tempers and to encourage his friends to laugh at their own foolishness. The poem is an outstanding example in the English language of the genre of mock-epic. The 'epic' was considered one of the most serious of literary forms; it had been applied, in the classical period, to the trivialities of love and war. Pope’s mock-epic is not to mock the form itself, but to mock his society in its very failure to rise to epic standards, exposing its pettiness by casting it against the grandeur of the traditional epic subjects and the bravery and fortitude of epic heroes: Pope’s mock-heroic treatment in The Rape of the Lock underlines the ridiculousness of a society in which values have lost all proportion, and the trivial is handled with the gravity and solemnity that ought to be accorded to truly important issues. The 18th-century society in this poem fails to distinguish between things that are important and things that are not. The poem mocks the men it portrays by representing them as unworthy of a heroic culture. Therefore the mock-epic follows the epic in that its main concerns are serious and moral. The point that the theme must now be satirical rather than earnest is symptomatic of how far the culture has fallen. Retaining the original exhibition label The back of the panelling still retains two original labels printed with the 'Union Jack' and printed adjacent to it, 'The Secretary Royal British Commission for the Universal Exhibition 1878 Champ de Mars Paris'. Adjacent to that and below, printed and written in ink vertically: Exhibitor: (and signed in ink) George Trollope & Sons. Address: (written in ink) Halkin Street West. London. Allotment in Block: (written in ink) a2. In the printed floor plan 'a2 square' is in the very first line to the right of the floor plan and handwritten in ink with a 'diamond shape' also written with '101' within it. This pin points where George Trollope's stand was located. With thousands of items being displayed at the Exhibition, this label would have been the floor plan for the craftsmen, so they knew the correct place to install the boudoir room or petit salon. The firm continued expanding house building and interior decoration side of the business and by 1849 was also trading as an estate agency, letting and controlling property for the Grosvenor Estates. A separate branch of cabinet-makers, bearing the family name, was opened at West Halkin Street, London. becoming known as 'The Museum of Decorative Arts' (looked after by George Robinson). Here Trollope and Sons also sold high-class antique furniture made by other makers. In 1851, the firm became formally known as George Trollope and Sons. West Halkin Street, London. The address was recorded in the listing for the firm in The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876 & 1877. Period Press Coverage & Art Critic Review. everal newspapers also thoroughly describe George Trollope and Son's stand including the different tapestries that were hung where the mirrors are now, illustrating the poem 'The Rape of Lock', by Alexander Pope. Marius Vachon, a French Art Critic and journalist, who wrote for the journal ‘La France’ published an extensive review of the Trollope and Sons stand in a book called Les Merveilles de l'Exposition de 1878 (The Wonders of the 1878 Exhibition). Note: In the World Fairs translation it states door frame, Marius Vachon had originally written ‘chambranle’ in French, 'chambranle' loosely translates to a frame around something, and should read in its correct context: ‘fireplace in rosso antico’. We have taken the extract below written by Marius Vachon in its translated form from: Les Merveilles de l'Exposition de 1878, (The Wonders of the 1878 Exhibition). This puts into perspective the importance of this fine quality room interior when he viewed it at the exhibition in 1878: Marius Vachon: English furniture is very curious to observe; irreproachable from the point of view of execution, the furniture of our neighbours always reaches the last degree of respectability and comfort. One thing to be noticed is that for large pieces of furniture, the English upholsterer is transformed into a sort of architect; everything he makes takes on a monumental aspect. The first object that catches the eye when one enters the furniture class is the beautiful boudoir-salon exhibited by Mr. Trollope. The boudoir (or petit salon), of carved cedar wood, is an attempt to reproduce the style which prevailed in England during the first decade of Queen Anne's reign, and all the details have been studied, but not copied, from examples of decorative work of the time. The fireplace is in "rosso antico" movement, and the ceiling is in portable plaster. The panels painted on canvas represent scenes from the heroic-comic poem "The Abduction of the Hairpin," (The Rape of Lock) written by Alexander Pope in 1712, the eighth year of Queen Anne's reign, in which the customs and mores of the time are satirized in a pleasing manner. The apotheosis of the Loop and its sidereal transformations will form the decoration of the ceiling. In these illustrations of Pope's charming poem, the costumes and accessories have been taken from models of the time; and the bust of the poet, copied from his tomb in Westminster Abbey, occupies the niche in the centre of the mantelpiece. M. Marius Vachon, the period writer of the above continues with: Now we shall mention at random the magnificent dining table of Messrs. Johnston and Co., their oak mantelpiece, their boudoir table; Mr. Watt's drawing-room mantelpiece stepped in the old style and imitating the Japanese; Mr. James Shoolbred's great The Decorative Arts Society on Trollope and Sons The boudoir or petit salon is mentioned again in the Decorative Arts Society: Trollope did not exhibit such highly rated objects at the 1878 Paris Exhibition as at previous exhibitions; items included a large mirror frame carved in limewood in Renaissance style and a satinwood cabinet in Adam revival style, with a similar armchair (illus. Meyer (2006), p. 242) and probably two rooms; one was a boudoir in cedar wood in Queen Anne style and the other was a boudoir decorated by the firm in the theme of Pope’s The Rape of Lock. In the above extract, it is quite clear that the two rooms mentioned are in fact the very same room, because the fireplace and niche are illustrated in The Paris Universal Exhibition catalogue on page 209 and Marius Vachon describes the rest of the room set in the above… Trollope and Sons exhibition pieces listed and described by Meyer in an article he wrote for: The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to present, Journal 25 in 2001., where he points out the importance of George Trollope and Sons and mentions a table by Trollope exhibited at the 1867 exhibition that sold for £40,000 in 1996. He also mentions a cabinet exhibited by Trollope at the International Exhibition of 1862 that sold at Sotheby's in 1997 for £150,000. Interest was not as strong in the 1990's as it is today for rare exhibition pieces, high quality items were abundant back then, it was a golden era when the most beautiful works of art just kept coming onto the market. But there are exceptions as in this instance, when a unique, gold medal-winning exhibition work of art comes onto the market for the very first time. Meyer continued researching and writing about the great exhibitions and released his book in 2006, 'The Great Exhibitions, London, New York, Paris and Philadelphia 1851- 1900, where he mentions only in passing, The Boudoir Room or Petite Salon exhibited by Trollope, he even states that an image was not reproduced and that Trollope's exhibits in 1878 were not up to the quality and class of the items Trollope exhibited in London in 1862 and Paris in 1868. This is probably because Meyer didn't know of the line drawing illustrating the Roso Antico Fireplace, Niche and Panelling reproduced in The Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition 1878 shown in the above which Geering recently uncovered. John Meyer continues in the DAS journal: Undoubtedly they (Trollope) are a firm worthy of further research as they were right at the forefront of the furniture business in London from 1860 to 1880. Our research shows that the Petite Boudoir was awarded the gold medal for excellence in 1878 (see Journal La Liberté 23-10-1878 with the list of all medals attributed), something George Trollope and Sons did not achieve at the London 1862 and the Paris 1867 exhibitions. Jonathan Meyer joined Bonham's in 1977. He was Director at Sotheby's in charge of 19th Century Furniture from 1994 to June 2007. He was also chairman of the Fine Arts Faculty for The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. In the original description from the article in Les Merveilles de l’exposition de 1878, M. Marius Vachon states: The first object that catches the eye when one enters the (English) furniture class is the beautiful boudoir-salon exhibited by Mr. Trollope. Suggesting, it was in his opinion the very best on display in the English section, and being awarded the gold medal for excellence can only add weight to this. Adjacent to the original label that was printed by The Secretary - Royal British Commission for the Universal Exhibition 1878 in stencil ‘TO BE KEPT’, i.e. ‘to be returned’. This confirms why it came back to London. We removed the Boudoir Room or Petite Salon from a Trollope house, part of a grand high-class housing estate in London which around the time of the exhibition Trollope and Sons were in the process of building, and where the room set was installed directly after it returned from the exhibition in 1878 until now. Worthy of note is the machines that did the carving for the Boudoir Room or Petite Salon and also did all of the decorative carving (most of which was linenfold carving) for the Houses of Parliament, London. This machine, the engraving and description of which we copy from Engineering, was specially designed by its inventor, Mr. Jordan, for assisting in the production of the vast amount of carved decorations required for the walls and ceilings of the Houses of Parliament, London, and it was so employed during the entire progress of the work. The late Sir Charles Barry was so well satisfied with it, that he frequently declared it would have been impossible to have accomplished the work without it. The Department of Woods and Forests employed five of the machines at the Government Works, Thames Bank, for several years; and the machines have now passed into the hands of Messrs. George Trollope and Son, and are still used in the same building. They also exhibited the new technique of xylatechnography and sgraffito, methods of impressing coloured design into soft wood and engraving veneer to reveal the base wood. The newspaper, La Liberte October, 23rd 1878 listing the medal winners of the Paris 1878 exhibition. Third column, ''GROUPE III MOBILIER ET ACCESSOIRES'', (GROUP III FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES). Medailles d'or. (Gold Medals) where G Trollope et fils (G Trollope and Sons...

Edward William Godwin (attributed), a walnut four-fold screen, bevel glazed, with woven silk and velvet panels. This incorporates many design details of Godwin's Anglo-Japanese works...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (attributed) a Glasgow School green stained cypress wood and glazed bookcase, with bullion glazed doors with arched upper details and pierced brass hinges a...

James Smithey, a superior quality Aesthetic Movement carved walnut over mantle, with bevelled mirror and embossed copper panels depicting classical maidens, one panel stamped 'JS 189...

Gustav Siegel for J&J Kohn. Three ebonized Bentwood dining or cafe chairs. Two with new cane seats, one shown with original cane seat. Price per chair. All chairs are the same dime...

Six Arts & Crafts matching oak cafe settles, benches or loveseats with shaped backrests. Attributed to Wylie & Lochhead. Would also work great in a cafe, bar or your own dining or ...

George Faulkner Armitage. An Aesthetic Movement octagonal mahogany center table, with eight curved supports and shaped apron with subtle carved details on eight turned baluster legs...

Four very good quality Victorian cast iron circular swivel windows with a segmented triangular design. The windows open perfectly with no wear to th...

An Aesthetic Movement ebonized and gilded pedestal torchère in the style of Dr C Dresser. The circular top has a Greek key pattern band, the main octagonal column has incised and gil...

John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906), a pair of Gothic Revival oak dining chairs. These upholstered dining chairs are the side chairs en s...

John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906), six Gothic Revival oak dining chairs. These upholstered dining chairs are the side chairs en suite t...

Wylie & Lochhead. A pair of simple Arts & Crafts oak side or bedroom chairs with newly laid rush seats. Additional Measurements: Seat height: 43.5cm / 17.13 Inches

Style of E W Godwin. An Aesthetic Movement ebonized cabinet. The upper shelf with a 3/4 gallery on turned supports with a bevelled mirror below and display area in front. The two doo...

Heal and Son, attributed. An Arts and Crafts six-legged oak armchair, with pierced heart and scroll decoration to the head rest. Professionally re-upholstered in green leather. Seat ...

Morris & Co. Attributed to Philip Webb An Aesthetic Movement rush seat Sussex side chair with newly laid rush seat. This chair has been totally restored and had new rush professional...

Gabriel Viardot, style of. An Aesthetic Movement tea trolley with Japanese style fretwork gallery and raised animal heads to each upper corner with a river scene depicting Herons to ...

Leonard Wyburd for Liberty and Co. A rare Arts and Crafts two tier walnut side table, inlaid with three pewter florets with ebonized highlig...

Designed by Ernest Gimson. A rare unusually tall steel candlestick made by Alfred Bucknell, punched and chased with geometric design to the top, and a beautiful detail underneath the...