27 items found
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A rare George III leaded glazed fanlight window,
£2,150A rare George III leaded glazed fanlight window,
with radial bars, scrolled foliate details and floral bosses,£2,150 -
Life in London by Pierce Egan
£1,500Life in London by Pierce Egan
The names are Tom and Jerry are these days synonymous with the cat and mouse cartoons of 1940s, but to a nineteenth century ear, whether Regency or Victorian, they belonged to the rakish Corinthian Tom and his cousin from the country Jerry Hawthorne who, along with their friend Bob Logic, roamed the streets of the capital in search of a good time in Egan’s boisterous comic serial Life in London.
Described as ‘a faithful Portraiture of High & Low Life’ from the West End to the East End, Pierce Egan’s comical monthly was one of the popular sensations of its day. The central characters, Tom, Jerry and Logic were well-heeled young men about town, keen to see ‘a bit of life’ in the poorer districts of London. Their escapades and misadventures were largely autobiographical, being drawn from the lives of Egan himself and his illustrators, George and Robert Cruikshank and Isaac Richard.
One of the key achievements of Egan’s Life in London was using contemporary slang as the basis of its style. As a result of the success of Life in London, the names Tom and Jerry became proverbial for young men causing disorder.
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A pair of English glazed mahogany doors ,
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An English cast plaster relief panel,
£545An English cast plaster relief panel,
the richly ornamented frieze cast with an acanthus clasp issuing four successive fruiting and flowering acanthus scrolls,£545 -
An English cast iron fireback,
£485An English cast iron fireback,
the rectangular plate with an arched top, cast in relief with an armorial flanked by a wyvern and a lion supporting, the shield centred by a rose and with a coronet surmount,£485 -
A Victorian pine front door,
£450A Victorian pine front door,
with six radial glazed panes above six graduated blind panels, complete with brass knocker and letter-plate,£450 -
A George III painted pine four-panel door,
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An English oak panelled door,
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A five panel front door
£300 + VATA five panel front door
the obverse with raised moulding to the upper two and central panel, the bottom two panels flush, all five panels recessed to the reverse,
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A Victorian pine front door,
£280A Victorian pine front door,
part glazed with four radial panes above nine rectangular glazed lights and a pair of short blind panels below,£280 -
An English five-panelled mahogany door,
£275 -
An English part-glazed painted pine front door,
£245An English part-glazed painted pine front door,
with two long glazed panels above a letter-plate and two blind panels,£245
Featured Items
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Pair of chrome and brass table lamps,
£850Pair of chrome and brass table lamps,
formed as columns on pedestal bases, sold without shades, re-wired and PAT tested.£850 -
Large ‘Tinos’ marble slabs,
£420 per slab,Large ‘Tinos’ marble slabs,
Exceptionally large solid antique 'Tinos' marble slabs; reclaimed from a commercial building in London near to Buckingham Palace. Suitable as wall cladding, flooring or table and bar tops. Sold in square metre slabs.£420 per slab, -
Italian ‘Cubic’ Chandelier,
£1,400£1,000Italian ‘Cubic’ Chandelier,
Italian "Cubic" chandelier in chrome and brushed steel by Gaetano Sciolari. This piece has twelve chrome and perspex cubic light shades held on a series of geometric brushed steel arms.£1,400£1,000 -
George III style white marble and inlaid chimneypiece,
£7,500George III style white marble and inlaid chimneypiece,
the plain rectangular shelf above Greek-key pattern frieze of verde marble, flanked by classical ewer endblocks, the tapered pilaster jambs with further verde marble inlay, raised on square foot-blocks.£7,500