The School for Scandal Decorative Objects

A beautifully faded early 19th century Japanese export jewellery box, Chinoiserie decorated with typically scenes, figures and foliage. The box has its originally lacquered segment...

A bit of an oddball thing, possibly something that has been produced for a film, tv production, a piece created by a artist etc. An oversized faux blonde river Turtle shell, formed ...

A 1 to 1 scale plaster reproduction of the three reliefs from the famous Ludovisi Throne, located in the Archaeological Museum of Palazzo Altemps, Rome. 460-450 BC circa. The throne...

A secret leather bound book box with the most beautiful marbled paper interior. mid 19th century in age, English in origins. Age related wear and abrasions 21/13.5/3.5cm

A great period and perfectly usable dogs water/food pressed copper bowl. Dents nibbles and knocks, a very small hole to the base, has a beautifully verdigris oxidation to the exteri...

A charming grandmother clock decorated in the chinoiserie taste with typical scenery and figures. Smaller than your average grandmother clock and larger than your typical granddaug...

A late Georgian pitch pine crate that would off originally been used for transporting a dog on a carriage. In wonderful original condition, with its original green painted finish tha...

A fine and early to mid 19th century plaster depiction of Flora the Goddess of Spring, possibly by Humphrey Hooper Flora, the Roman goddess of spring, through the chaplet of flowers...

A 20th century plater sculpture by Mary Boyd signed and dated to the base 1931, very much in the manner of Jean Antoine Houdon and his L'Ecorché. Age related discolouration, staining...

Beautiful porcelain peint main (hand painted) vintage trio of trinket boxes by Limoges, circa 1980s, With brassware clasps. These unusual pieces are in excellent condition, and jus...

A fabulous 19th century oversized classical plaster bust of Apollo by Louis Brugiotti of 4 Leather Lane London 1845-1885, in original untouched condition. 89cm in height 60cm in w...

A fine plaster bust of the English architect Matthew Habershon (1789-1852). The bust sits on a faux painted porphyry marble column (plaster). The bust taken from the original marbl...

After the antique a late 19th century atticware vase, with typical red and black decoration of classical scenes. Some elderly repairs, knocks and abrasions. 41cm in height 20cm...

An exquisite pair of toleware vases, decorated with classical painted imagery on a faux painted porphyry plinths. The vases also retain their original liners, age related knocks and...

A fine and early Dominico Brucciani plaster studies of a bull. Very much in untouched original condition, with areas of loss mainly around the extre...

A elegant D Brucciani plaster cast classical mask of a Putto Domenico Brucciani was born in Lucca, Italy in 1815. He moved to London where he estab...

A George III penwork sarcophagus work box with hinged lid decorated with a chariot, the side with Neo-Classical devices. Age related abrasions and knocks later replacement ebonised ...

A very fine marble sculpture of Arpocrate also know as Harpocrates, the Greek god of silence. Often depicted with lotus flowers and a horn, the sculpture in question was carved by the Italian Francesco Pozzi (Italian, 1779 – 1844) around the first quarter of the 19th century. Francesco was born in Rome a sculptor and engraver, and In conjunction with Coppa and Perini, he engraved some of the plates from the statues in the Clementine Gallery at the Vatican. He also engraved a portrait of Pope Pius VI, As a sculptor he made a Latona with the infants Apollo and Artemis...

Collection of six sheet steel and hinged document boxes, with decorative squat Swiss style shields hand painted with dates and numbers. Dating from 1850 to 1860 with differing amo...

A marble bust on typical waisted circular socle of Philanthropist Annie, Lady Jerningham The bust was carved by R.W.Ingram around the last quarter of the 19th century and we beli...

A very finely carved marble bust of William Ewart Gladstone dated 1868 and signed W.Theed SC William Theed was born in Staffordshire, his father, William Theed the elder being a sculptor and a craftsman at Wedgwood, known for his major work, Hercules and the Thracian Horses for one frontage of the Buckingham Palace complex. The younger Theed studied at the Royal Academy Schools, then worked for the sculptor E. H. Baily. Five years on, in 1826, he went to Rome, where he was to stay a total of 22 years, during that time working in the studios of Thorwaldson and John Gibson. Returning to London in 1848, Theed enjoyed a good reputation, being a favoured sculptor of Queen Victoria, and was commissioned to produce many portrait statues, busts, and large monuments. He showed work in the 1851 Great Exhibition, and among other high points were a group for the Albert Memorial, and five standing figures on the Inland Revenue side of Somerset House, representing Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin. Theed's statues may be seen in St Paul's (Henry Hallam), Manchester (Monument to Chetham in the Cathedral, Gladstone and Thomas Bright for the Town Hall, and James Watt in Piccadilly Gardens), Huddersfield (Robert Peel), Winchester (David Williams monument in the Cathedral), and Prince Albert statues for Grimsby, and in Australia in Macquairie Street, Sydney. He was also responsible for three of the portrait statues (Bacon, Locke, Adam Smith...

A mid-19th century turned sycamore diary bowl. The bowl has a wonderful color with an untouched dry surface. Measures: 25.5cm in diameter, 10cm in height.

A unusual travelling tradesman's soap display case, early 20th century in age likely Edwardian. A segmented internal draw hidden via the sliding cover,...

An unusual grotesque three-tier candelabra in the manner of Bernard Palissy, the central column decorated with coiled serpents and lizards on a stepped...