Antique Fire Grates & Fire Baskets

A selection of original antique fire grates and fire baskets including English Georgian, Regency, Victorian, French Rococo and Arts and Crafts.

Whether you have an antique Victorian, Rococo or Georgian fireplace (or any other style), they'll be an item to suit below.

  • Stock: 12271

    A large and striking 20th century Neo Classical styled brass and iron fire grate in the late Georgian manner of Robert Adam. Tall with an arched cast iron back, and with profuse etching and small cast detail on the apron, spandrels, supports and the four urn finials. English, 20th century.

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    width height depth
    Overall 41 78"
    106.5 cms
    34 14"
    87 cms
    17 1116"
    45 cms
    Back plate width 22 316"
    56.5 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 78"
    76 cms
    33 12"
    85 cms
    12 316"
    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 1116"
    52.5 cms
    23 58"
    60 cms
    14 58"
    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 14"
    72 cms
    26 12"
    67.2 cms
    18 18"
    46 cms
    Back width 21 18"
    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 38"
    62 cms
    13 1316"
    35 cms
    11 1316"
    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 12"
    105.5 cms
    35"
    89 cms
    20 78"
    53 cms
    Back width 26"
    66 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 12"
    95.3 cms
    21"
    53.3 cms
  • Stock: 13822

    A Victorian iron and brass mounted antique fire grate in the Neoclassical style with a high split pediment sunburst backplate. The three barred fire basket, with twin urn finials above ornate foliate brass panels linked by a brass apron with a central paterae, is supported by a pair of legs with vase shaped feet beneath large lidded urn finials.
    English, the Registered Mark on the back dates this grate at 1877.

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    Width Height Depth
    37"
    94 cms
    30 14"
    77 cms
    14 58"
    37 cms
  • Stock: 14703

    An antique Victorian cast iron and brass bow fronted antique fire basket with a shaped backplate, and a curved cut apron flanked by low standards each mounted with a small brass ball finial.
    English, late 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 32 14"
    82 cms
    22 58"
    57.5 cms
    16 12"
    42 cms
    Back width 18 12"
    47 cms
  • Stock: 13789

    A large and elegant cast iron and patinated brass Victorian fire grate with a high arched sunburst fire back in the Georgian, Robert Ada style.The bow barred grate is flanked by pairs of quartered sunburst shoulders, with trailing acanthus detail, capped by a pair of patinated brass urn finials above an ornately cut serpentine apron. The whole is supported by a pair of low decorative standards raised on acanthus wrapped feet and mounted by a pair of larger urn finials English, mid 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 35 1316"
    91 cms
    34 1316"
    88.5 cms
    18 12"
    47 cms
    Back width 21 14"
    54 cms
  • Stock: 14635

    A pleasingly simple Arts and Crafts cast iron five barred antique fire grate the shaped back with an oval boss feature the grate supported by a pair of tapering standards with flattened knopped finials.
    English, early 20th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    21 18"
    53.5 cms
    26 316"
    66.5 cms
    13"
    33 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 14"
    77 cms
    40 316"
    102 cms
    16 12"
    42 cms
    Back width 20 14"
    51.5 cms
  • Stock: 14748

    A very attractive and finely made Regency style cast iron and brass antique firebasket. The high shaped backplate, decorated with swags, fronds and goats head masks, is behind a two barred grate mounted with a pair of small swagged brass urn finials and beaded shoulders above the curved foliate cut apron. The grate rests on a pair of ornate tapering standards topped by small four legged pedestals, each mounted with goats head masks and supporting lidded urns, above finely defined paterae. The original Adam designs for this grate are in the Soane Museum in London as mentioned in The English Fireplace by L. A. Shuffrey.
    English, late 19th century.

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    width height depth
    30 1116"
    78 cms
    29 18"
    74 cms
    14 1316"
    37.5 cms
    at the back 19 1116"
    50 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 58"
    70 cms
    22 1316"
    58 cms
    Back width 24 38"
    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 1316"
    93.5 cms
    56 78"
    144.5 cms
    19 1116"
    50 cms
  • Stock: 13364

    A large Baroque style antique Victorian cast iron fire basket with an arched sunburst back plate the grate with and simple front bars and the whole fronted by a pair of large urn style andirons, with shapely handles and rams head masks to the sides. English, 1870.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 38 316"
    97 cms
    28 1116"
    73 cms
    18 18"
    46 cms
    Back width 21 1116"
    55 cms
  • Stock: 14726

    A cast iron and brass mounted Victorian fire basket in the Rococo style identical to SNo 10347. The raised back with scrolling foliate decoration above a four barred oval shaped grate, mounted with flambeau finials, embellished with scrolling brass acanthus detail continuing down the splayed feet.
    English, circa 1900.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 19 18"
    48.5 cms
    26"
    66 cms
    11"
    28 cms
    Back width 18 18"
    46 cms
  • Stock: 14111

    A small but sturdy two barred cast iron Victorian fire grate in the Arts & Crafts manner the front bars are held by turned standards with brass stylised rosette finials.
    English, Circa 1870.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 19 14"
    49 cms
    23 1316"
    60.5 cms
    14 316"
    36 cms
    Back width 18 12"
    47 cms
  • Stock: 14724

    A cast iron and brass antique fire basket, with a shaped arched backplate, the grate with four serpentine front bars supported by a pair of twin tapering legs with entwined snake and flambeau finials.
    English, circa 1900.

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    Width Height Depth
    21 14"
    54 cms
    20 18"
    51 cms
    11"
    28 cms
  • Stock: 14352

    An elegant serpentine fronted cast iron and brass antique fire grate in the late Georgian manner by Thomas Elsley of London The cartouche relief on the fire back is flanked by olive branches and scrolled acanthus. The barred grate, sits above a pierced apron studded with paterae and mounted by a pair of brass urn finials. The grate is supported by a pair of out-swept standards with paterae and acanthus detailing, topped by a larger pair of urn finials. English, mid to late 19th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 35 58"
    90.5 cms
    29 78"
    76 cms
    18 18"
    46 cms
    Back width 21 18"
    53.5 cms
  • Stock: 10640

    A mid 20th century cast iron and brass two barred fire grate in the early Georgian manner with small brass finials, a scrolled cut apron and fronted by a pair of baluster andirons with floral detail raised on pairs of lion paw feet. English, mid twentieth century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 35 38"
    90 cms
    26 38"
    67 cms
    13 1316"
    35 cms
    Back width 20 12"
    52 cms
    28"
    71 cms
  • Stock: 10347

    A cast iron and brass mounted Victorian fire basket in the Rococo style identical to SNo 14726. The raised back with scrolling foliate decoration above a four barred oval shaped grate, mounted with flambeau finials, embellished with scrolling brass acanthus detail continuing down the splayed feet.
    English, early 20th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 19"
    48.2 cms
    26"
    66 cms
    9 38"
    24 cms
    Back width 18 18"
    46 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 14"
    54 cms
    22 38"
    57 cms
    13"
    33 cms
    Back width 17 12"
    44.5 cms
  • Stock: 12404

    A 20th century replica Georgian style brass and cast iron fire grate, substantially built with two pairs of urn finials, well defined cast decorative brass and iron detail, the arched fireback with central urn bordered by Bellflower swags, the grate with curved brass spandrel flanking the two polished steel fire bars above a pierced and cut apron. English, Late 20th century a used replica.

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    width height depth
    Max dimensions: 26"
    66 cms
    20 18"
    51 cms
    13"
    33 cms
    Back width: 16 12"
    42 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 1316"
    101 cms
    27 1316"
    70.5 cms
    23 316"
    59 cms
    22 316"
    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 1316"
    91 cms
    28 1116"
    73 cms
    16 12"
    42 cms
    Back width 22 1316"
    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 23 316"
    59 cms
    24 12"
    62.2 cms
    16 12"
    42 cms
    Back width 17 14"
    44 cms
  • Stock: 14644

    A good sized and attractive late 20th century neoclassical style cast iron and brass mounted three barred fire grate with 'S' scrolled shouders. The grate with two small etched brass urn finials and a cut brass apron supported by a pair of tapering standards topped by a larger pair of etched urn finials. English, late 20th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    30 14"
    77 cms
    24 316"
    61.5 cms
    13 58"
    34.5 cms
  • Stock: 14625

    A beautiful and tall russet brown enamelled four sided cast iron Art Nouveau multi-fuel antique French Tower Stove with ornate corner pillars, lid and fire box door. Each of the enamelled side panels with depictions of pairs of Birds of Paradise drinking at fountains above fields of flowers. The manufacturers Trade Mark:
    DEVILLE & Cie, LENT MOYEN VIF, No 115 CHARLEVILLE "MONOPOLE"
    can be seen on the underside of the decorative top lid. In fine condition and in working order.
    French, circa 1910.

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    width height depth
    15 1116"
    40 cms
    35"
    89 cms
    17 12"
    44.5 cms
  • Stock: 14227

    A wide Arts and Crafts polished steel fire barred antique Edwardian fire basket very much in the manner 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
    36 316"
    92 cms
    28 78"
    73.5 cms
    17 14"
    44 cms
  • Stock: 14529

    A very fine and highly ornate large cast iron and ormolu mounted Rococo style fire basket. The sturdy cross hatch grate front, embellished with foliate detail, is centred by a fleur de lys style panel. The whole supported on elaborately scrolled acanthus supports. English, late 19th century.

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    width height depth
    firegrate 35"
    89 cms
    20 12"
    52 cms
    13"
    33 cms
    back 22"
    56 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
    25 316"
    64 cms
    19 1116"
    50 cms
    15 1116"
    40 cms
  • Stock: 11355

    A neoclassical style cast iron and brass 20th century firegrate with four brass urn finials, a pierced brass foliate decorated apron and scrolled supports resting on peg feet. Early 20th century.

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    width height depth
    External 23 316"
    59 cms
    23 1316"
    60.5 cms
    14 316"
    36 cms
    Back width 15"
    38 cms
  • Stock: 14446

    A Victorian Rococo style brass and cast iron antique fire grate with a tall shaped back plate and a pair of fine brass winged Griffin raised on ball and claw feet supporting the bow fronted grate which is embellished with seven floral brass studs set above the cut and scrolled brass apron.
    English 19th century, with later restoration.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 34 58"
    88 cms
    30 14"
    77 cms
    16 18"
    41 cms
    Back width 21 14"
    54 cms
  • Stock: 12829

    An Arts & Crafts cast iron firegrate with a medieval lamplighter and decorative imagery and symbols of geometric form cast in the integral back and grate. English, early 20th century.

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    Width Height Depth
    External 17 14"
    44 cms
    29 78"
    76 cms
    11 38"
    29 cms
    Back width 13 1316"
    35 cms
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