Antique Fire Grates & Fire Baskets

Stock: 14618

A tall green glazed ceramic and black cast iron stove, manufactured by Brevete S.G.D.G, with integral oven. The top frieze has two brass adjustable vents for additional heat control.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms	56 7⁄8" 144.5 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 14617

A large Victorian Aesthetic Movement fire basket. The arched back is cast with a Japanese style fishscale decoration with a floral roundel to the centre. The two barred grate cast with Aesthetic Movement motifs is supported by a pair of very tall steeple standards above sturdy scrolled feet.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	24 3⁄16" 61.5 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms
Back width	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms

Stock: 14374

A rare and monumental cast iron Victorian, Coalbrookdale fire grate with an elaborately scrolled backplate featuring a Bagot Goat jumping a fence. The substantial basket, with a strapwork apron centred by a lion mask, is supported by a pair of large and powerful panther head standards. Provenance: The Coalbrookdale Company registered September 6th 1841 number 814 can be seen on the back.
English, early to mid 19th century.

Notes: The Bagot goat is believed to be Britain's oldest breed of goat and has lived semi-wild at Blithfield Hall in Staffordshire for over six hundred years.The Coalbrookdale Company, a foundry in Shropshire established in 1709, is probably most famous for building the world's first cast iron bridge erected and opened at Ironbridge in 1780, but it was also noted for its decorative ironwork an example of which is a set of gates opening into London's Hyde Park. The blast furnaces were closed down around 1820 but the foundries remained in use.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Back width	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 14344

A large, wide and low Gothic style antique cast iron Victorian fire grate with barley twist front bars mounted with fleur de lys finials and supported by a pair of substantial splayed footed standards.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Back width	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 13268

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A magnificent and rare late 18th Century "Summer Grate".

This very important George III grate is fashioned in bright cut polished steel. It is a most generously large grate with very finely etched and engraved foliate and acanthus designs and applied beading, a skirt of lozenge cut paterae, vase shaped finials and chamfered etched legs very much in the Neo-classical style and clearly showing the influence of Robert Adam (1728-1792).

There is an identical grate in the V&A Museum, London which is believed to have been made in the late 18th century by an iron founder named Henry Jackson of Saffron Hill, Smithfield, a copy of his trade card is below.

This type of grate was called a dog grate but became more commonly known as a "Summer Grate" because the expensively etched front could be lifted off during the winter months, to protect it from damage when the fire was lit, thereby revealing behind the more simply etched second grate front. It would almost certainly have been specially commissioned to complement a grand chimneypiece.

There are two other known identical grates both in Spencer House, an 18th century mansion built in 1756-66 in St. James's, London.
English, Circa 1790.

SCALE: V. Large

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43" 109.2 cms	38" 96.5 cms	18" 45.7 cms

Stock: 13520

A very striking and large brass fire basket in the Renaissance manner
with an ornate repousse decorated hood. The grate supported by a pair
of monopodic panthers holding rings in their mouths. Registered design
number 256679 for 1895.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	15" 38 cms
Back width	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 12948

A very large and heavy cast iron William IV fire basket, the square backplate topped with scrolled anthemion motifs, acanthus decoration on the shoulders of the wide & deep grate. The pair of large baluster style andirons stand proud of the basket flanking an unusual cast brass skirt.
English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	42 1⁄8" 107 cms	36 13⁄16" 93.5 cms	22" 56 cms
Back width	27 3⁄16" 69 cms

Stock: 11792

A very tall cast-iron solid fuel burning stove crowned with stylised leaves and spear mounts above strapwork bands and acroterion style motifs on the chimney. The makers mark Baerums Verk, No.158 can be clearly seen on the front plate. In good working condition.
Norwegian late 19th century.

Notes: During the early 17th century iron ore was found in the areas now known as Kirkerud and Eineåsen in Bærum in Norway. The then King of Denmark and Norway, Christian IV, wanted his kingdom to be selfsufficient in iron production and in 1610 he granted a Paul Smelter the right to build, at his own expense, a foundry in the area. During it’s heyday, the ironworks known as Baerums Verk, produced everything from cannon balls, cannons, armoured plates, nails, iron parts, and bullets. Later such items as stoves, ovens, grave ornamentations, kitchen utensils, hardware and machine parts gradually became the mainstays of production.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	63 13⁄16" 162 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 13450

A massive, ornately detailed cast iron fire grate in the Gothic Revival manner. The arched backplate centred with a quatrefoil, the two barred grate is fronted by a pair of tall standards with quartered roundels set beneath stylised fleur de lys spire finials with smaller versions echoed on the grate.
English mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	21 1⁄4" 54 cms
Back width	25 3⁄16" 64 cms

Stock: 13005

A substantial Arts & Crafts cast iron firegrate, with integral shield-cast andirons.
English 1930s.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	20 1⁄4" 51.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms
Internal	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms

Stock: 12768

A large bronze hooded Victorian fire grate with substantial integral baluster firedogs in the Baroque manner, with a cut curved apron mounted with a pair of small flambeau finials and raised on scrolled feet embellished with female masks.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	36" 91.5 cms	23" 58.5 cms

Stock: 12772

A large oval wrought iron antique English Arts and Crafts grate in the 17th century style, with slatted serpentine upright bars and resting on a pair of wrought iron fire dogs with cylindrical bottle holders, for warming / mulling the wine in winter.
English, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 12251

A very grand antique Victorian log grate in the Jacobean Revival manner. Large, robust and stylish with enormous andirons,a bowed log basket and typical stylised Jacobean adornment. English mid 19th century.

Provenance: Southampton University, Hampshire, England. It is possible that this grate was originally from The Hartley Institution opened in 1862 and which in 1902 became the University College of Southampton. The Institute was demolished in 1936. Please see third image below.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms

Stock: 8045

A large cast iron and bronze " Nautilus " log grate made in the nineteenth century by The Nautilus Fire Company of Yeovil, Somerset. The side floral decoration in the Renaissance manner, on four iron wheels, the front bar posts with large bronze spiral finials, a scrolled bronze canopy which revolves forward and back to reduce the airflow, and bronze trim either side.
English mid to late 19th century.

NOTES : When Queen Victoria had Nautilus fire grates installed at Balmoral Castle and Osborne House demand for them grew substantially. The design by the Petter family firm was based on the internal shape of the Nautilus shell by means of which the fumes and smoke circulated in a chamber before being drawn out through the flue.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms

Stock: 11586

A Period Regency cast iron and steel fire basket in the Greek Revival manner, with scrolling and drapes to the sides and front and rams head features flanking bowed firebars and polished steel stepped base with a cinders drawer.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms	20" 50.8 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms

Stock: 11506

A most unusual antique Arts & Crafts oval Fire Basket in wrought and cast iron, the andirons as stylised griffins with cloven hoofs supporting an oval firebasket with bowed vertical bars. The bottom grill to be reinstated.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	24 3⁄16" 61.5 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 8961

An iron & brass fire basket with reeded top rail above mounted slatted front, flanked
by classical brass urns raised on turned supports.
English 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Back width	18 11⁄16" 47.5 cms

Stock: 7902

A very large Baroque style antique Victorian fire basket, the two barred grate, mounted with brass baluster finials, is supported by a pair of sturdy, tall brass baluster andirons with large scrolled feet.
English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	49" 124.5 cms	35" 88.9 cms	22" 55.9 cms

Stock: 9855

A cast and wrought iron Arts & Crafts Gothic style fire basket with quite striking Fleur de Lys and strapwork detail, probably by Liberty of London.
Late 19th, early 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 4659

An Arts and Crafts cast-iron firegrate after a design by Thomas Hadden
the premier blacksmith in Scotland in the early 20th century who
collaborated with Sir Robert Lorimer.
Scottish early 20th century. Photo before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30" 76.2 cms	37 1⁄2" 95.2 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 9585

An unusual and ornate patent fire grate with a removable curved front panel, facilitating adjustable opening and draft control with attractive turned brass baluster and urn finials and "C" scroll decoration.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 10471

A rare oval Regency burnished & polished urn shaped firegrate in the Greek Revival manner of Thomas Hope, with large looped side handles, swag decoration terminating in Rams heads either side and raised on a circular egg and dart base standing on a square plinth on a lower base which contains the ashpan, the front of which has a sliding ventilation control. English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 3⁄16" 53.9 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	10" 25.4 cms

Stock: 10320

An original very rare Regency cast iron fire basket in the shape of a Baroque Rococo style classical urn. The oviform body with scrolled handles, egg & tongue borders and pierced front with brass pearl-beaded border supported on a round, waisted socle standing on a later ventilated, louvered base.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	22" 56 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms

Stock: 10335

An attractive cast iron and brass Gothic Revival log basket with a shaped back plate. The basket supported on spirally turned columns with pierced stylised trefoil brass detail.
English 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35" 89 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms