Lots

Lot number: 1

A pair of carved Cotswold stone pineapple gatepier finials

late 19th century
104cm.; 41ins high

Estimated Price: £4000-6000

Hammer Price: £8500.00

Lot number: 2

A pair of rare Louis XVI carved stone baskets of fruit

circa 1770
70cm.; 27½ins high

Estimated Price: £10000-15000

Lot number: 3

A pair of impressively large stoneware gatepier balls on bases

late 19th century
122cm.; 48ins high 68cm.; 27ins diameter

Estimated Price: £8000-12000

Hammer Price: £7000.00

Lot number: 4

A similar pair of substantial stoneware gatepier balls

Estimated Price: £8000-12000

Hammer Price: £7000.00

Lot number: 5

A Renaissance carved marble frieze fragment

Italian probably 16th century
28cm.; 11ins wide by 69cm.; 27ins high

Provenance: ex private Dutch collection

Estimated Price: £3000-5000

Hammer Price: £3000.00

Lot number: 6

A Renaissance carved stone frieze fragment

probably Italian 16th century
28cm.; 11ins high by 66cm.; 26ins wide

Provenance: ex private Dutch collection

Estimated Price: £3000-5000

Hammer Price: £3000.00

Lot number: 7

An Eastern Roman Empire carved white marble capital

2nd/3rd century AD
later converted to a font, 63cm.; 25ins high

Following the fall of the Roman Empire many of the buildings fell into disrepair or were dismantled and various components were recycled into other architectural schemes. At some stage this marble capital which would have originally graced a Roman temple has had the centre scooped out into a bowl which would have been used as a Christian baptismal font.

Estimated Price: £5000-8000

Hammer Price: £7500.00

Lot number: 8

A rare and unusual dated 16th century carved gritstone lion

possibly central European
sejant and regardent with one paw raised on a boar‘s head and dated 1566
89cm.; 35ins high by 108cm.; 42½ins wide
This unusual dated piece carved with a lion on one side, the other side carved with a bird of prey and would probably have originally have formed part of a larger group incorporated into an architectural scheme, viewed in the round.

Estimated Price: £2000-3000

Hammer Price: £2500.00

Lot number: 9

An unusual carved stone bust of a Roman soldier

German late 17th/early 18th century
84cm.; 33ins high

Estimated Price: £5000-7000

Lot number: 10

A pair of Fleur de PÚche marble column pedestals

19th century
on bronze bases
51cm.; 27ins high

Estimated Price: £3000-5000