Antique Fire Grates & Fire Baskets

Stock: 14066

A large and very rare Regency cast & wrought iron, brass mounted antique fire grate in the Greek Revival manner. The backplate, with a rolled top embellished with scrolled foliate detail, sits behind the tooth barred curved fronted grate which is flanked by panels with applied brass stylised honeysuckle and scrolled wrought iron mountings. The grate is supported to the front by a pair of tall draped figural andirons standing on small brass footblocks.
English, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 5⁄8" 103 cms	22" 56 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms
Back Width	28" 71 cms

Stock: 14574

A small Neoclassical style cast iron and brass Victorian fire basket the tall, possibly later associated, fire back with a depiction of 'The Fox and The Stork' from Aesop's Fables, the low three barred grate, surmounted by a pair of brass capped finials flanked by brass shoulders above a decoratively cut serpentine apron, is supported by tapered column standards topped by further capped finials. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms
Back width	15" 38 cms

Stock: 14551

A very fine and large cast iron and parcel gilt decorated antique Victorian fire grate in the Gothic Revival manner. The backplate is cast with five roundels behind the two barred grate with plain and spiral twist bars and knobbed cone finials. The grate is supported on an a pair of tall ornate andirons surmounted by cup and cover finials with foliate gilt decoration. The four sided gilt mounted stems are embellished with rope-twist bound foliate roundels above gilt detail on the splayed feet. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms
Back width	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 14865

A wide Arts and Crafts polished steel five barred antique Edwardian fire basket very much in the manner of Charles Voysey(1857 – 1941). The large grate, mounted with a pair of Baroque style finials, is supported to the front by a pair of tall elegant spire andirons raised on square columned legs.
English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	36 3⁄16" 92 cms	28 7⁄8" 73.5 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 14862

A small and exquisite Queen Anne style cast iron and brass antique fire basket in the Baroque manner. The grate with burnished turned fire bars is supported to the front by a pair of very attractively styled brass standards with spiral columns, under conical gadrooned finials, on slender cabriole legs terminating in pad feet.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms
Back width	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 14829

A very decorative and large cast iron and brass mounted three barred Victorian Rococo style fire basket with a high arched and shaped back plate. Decorative urn finials are mounted on the grate above delicately styled applied brass detail. The registration mark for 886 to the back.
English, circa 1886.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	34 1⁄8" 86.5 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 14846

A very large wrought iron Arts and Crafts fire basket in the baroque style the grate supported by a pair of large ornate andirons.
English, circa 1900.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	55 1⁄8" 140 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Back Width	28 1⁄4" 72 cms

Stock: 14830

A substantial Victorian, Baroque style antique cast iron fire grate with knopped, side supports, a high arched backplate, and sturdy shaped standards.
English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 14816

A small but neat mid Victorian cast iron and brass antique fire grate with a studded backplate. The grate with a turned front bar is supported by a pair of standards with Gothic detail and brass finials raised on splayed feet.
English, mid Victorian.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 14715

A large Victorian antique cast iron fire grate in the Baroque style with a sunburst medallion on the shaped backplate behind the four barred grate flanked by a pair of tall bulbous andirons raised on splayed feet.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	28 1⁄4" 72 cms	26 1⁄2" 67.2 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Back width	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms

Stock: 14762

A large Victorian Rococo style cast iron and brass antique fire basket. The grate with bombe shaped vertical bars is supported by scrolled acanthus embellished legs. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 14804

A fine and grand Georgian style brass and cast iron antique fire basket. The arched backplate sits behind a three barred grate mounted with five tulip vase finials above a pierced and engraved serpentine apron depicting mythical dragons amid scrolling foliage. The grate is supported on a pair of four columned standards topped with taller tulip vase finials. English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	41 1⁄2" 105.5 cms	35" 89 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms
Back width	26" 66 cms

Stock: 14810

A fine Victorian burnished hooded fire grate in the Beaux Arts Baroque style. English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	35 3⁄8" 89.8 cms	12 11⁄16" 32.3 cms

Stock: 10110

A rare and important pierced and engraved steel George III antique fire grate. It was manufactured in bright steel with very finely engraved foliate and acanthus detailing, applied beading, a skirt of lozenge paterae and lidded urn shaped finials set above chamfered engraved legs..

This large fire basket is from a design by Robert Adam, and probably made in the late 18th century by an iron founder one Henry Jackson of Saffron Hill, Smithfield in London. A similar grate is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington and there are a further two in the 18th century Spencer House in St. James's, London.
English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43" 109.2 cms	37 1⁄2" 95.3 cms	21" 53.3 cms

Stock: 14513

A large and sturdy cast iron portable Victorian antique kitchen range. The oven, with its two strong hinges and a slot closing latch, is to the left of the fire grate. The name of the maker Cakebread Robey & Co London and the patented name " Belle Portable " can be clearly seen on the chimney flue. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	35 13⁄16" 91 cms	37" 94 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 14532

A large wrought iron and bronze Arts and Crafts antique fire basket with a high shaped decorative backplate featuring a lion mask, scrolled grate bars and tall standards surmounted by bronze ball finials top and bottom raised on splayed, scrolled feet.
English, late 19th century.

Please note that the backplate is new.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Back width	20 1⁄4" 51.5 cms

Stock: 14720

A large antique Neoclassical style cast iron and brass three barred Victorian fire grate, with a high broken pediment backplate, small bulbous finials on the grate fronted by a pair of tall tapering andirons raised on scrolled feet.
English, circa 1870.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	37" 94 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms
Back width	24 3⁄8" 62 cms

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: 13199

A small 20th century burnished and etched brass and steel bow fronted firegrate in the English Rococo manner, with an arched back, four mounted brass finials and a cut etched serpentine apron incorporating a spread winged eagle amid foliage. The scrolled legs are supported on turned baluster feet.
English, mid to late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	13" 33 cms
Back width	17 1⁄2" 44.5 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: 14548

A large antique cast iron Arts and Crafts Victorian fire grate in the Renaissance style with a fine shield and oak leaf decorated back plate, double fleur de lys finials mounted on the grate and griffin holding brass rings in their mouths topping the standards.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 13⁄16" 101 cms	27 13⁄16" 70.5 cms	23 3⁄16" 59 cms
	22 3⁄16" 56.5 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: 14377

An antique French cast iron 18th century small Gothic style fire basket with a shaped arched backplate.
French, late 18th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	24 1⁄2" 62.2 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Back width	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 14510

An early 19th century Adam style three barred cast iron fire grate mounted with a pair of small polished iron finials, a cut and beaded apron and supported by a pair of fluted standards topped by a larger pair of urn finials above paterae detail. English mid to late 19th century.

	Width	Height	Depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 14144

A large cast iron antique Victorian log grate fronted with four linked circles, in place of bars, set top and bottom with knopped finials. The grate supported on fine quality cast brass baluster andirons with splayed legs and small ball feet.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	46 1⁄2" 118 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms	22" 56 cms
Back width	24" 61 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: 7739

An impressive large serpentine fronted 18th century polished iron antique fire basket in the manner of Robert Adam, with etched spandrels, paterae & endblocks, a beaded border and four urn finials. Identical to one in Soho House, Birmingham, the house designed by James Wyatt, but this firegrate was probably made by Matthew Boulton (1728 -1809) partner to James Wyatt and a leading light in the English Industrial Revolution. English, circa 1790.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	29 13⁄16" 75.6 cms	17 13⁄16" 45.1 cms
Back panel	23 3⁄16" 59 cms

Stock: 13740

A large cast and wrought iron Arts and Crafts fire basket supported by a pair of very tall spear shaped standards flanking the substantial rose adorned three barred grate.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	30 13⁄16" 78.2 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms
Internal	24" 61 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: 14062

A small two barred George III style 20th century steel and brass firegrate with rosette bar terminals, a pair of brass urn finials mounted on the grate and a cut brass
serpentine apron supported either side on tapering brass legs surmounted by a further pair of urn finials.
English mid 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 8414

A massive English Regency cast iron log grate.The imposing andirons with scrolled cabriole bases centred by anthymion motifs, beneath turned gadrooned finials either side of serpentine cast-iron firebars.
English, circa 1800.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	51 1⁄4" 130.2 cms	26 11⁄16" 67.9 cms	16 1⁄2" 41.9 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