About

A word about us

We operate nationwide in our search for attractive objects. Located in the heart of North Yorkshire, steeped in the county's rich heritage, amongst its historic estates and natural surroundings. We look around to find and present you with decorative objects to adorn your space.

English and Country House, Our Style

At Marquis Antiques we aim to provide you with opportunities to own beautiful, decorative, fascinating, useful, and enjoyable objects for your home, office, work and artspace, in true English or Country house Style, that are both beautiful and useful.

All of our items are handpicked to fulfil this obligation, and we are always keen to hear your comments and wishes.

Our philosophy

We want you to be entirely pleased and satisfied with your choice. To this end, all of our items go through a process to ensure that they are safe, complete, clean, usable, and ready for display.

Our team of restorers are chosen for their skill, experience and expertise, whether it is Art, Lighting, Furniture, or other precious objects, they are subject to the same inspection and careful process.

Our philosophy is to let an object show its age, so while your purchase needs to be clean presentable and usable, our emphasis is on a 'light touch' restoration process. Where possible we aim to present an object retaining its maximum originality wherever we can, original finish, paint, lustre. We do not restore to as new, or near new. We do not polish using abrasives, acids or any materials we believe will destroy the age and patina of the object in our care.

Careful and Sympathetic Restoration

We believe that you the customer, are not looking to buy a factory fresh looking item. Where objects need repair, our restorers restore as near to original as possible, and use period correct materials.

Some of our restoration is by its nature invisible. There are times also, when a repair simply means the object is made presentable and usable, and it may well be an obvious repair that retains age, charm and beauty.