Antique Fire Grates & Fire Baskets

Stock: 13365

A very fine rare and grand polished iron Fire Grate of generous proportions, with column and horizontal bars on the bow fronted grate flanked by tall standards supported on quadrupled feet. These baluster and ball feet were a feature of grates made in the mid to late18th century.
English mid to late18th century.

Notes: There was a near identical fire grate in the dining room of Wilton House, Wiltshire as illustrated in “The English Fireplace” by L A Shuffrey, Plate CXI.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Back Width	24" 61 cms

Stock: 13108

A fine steel and brass fireplace grate and matching fender in the George III manner. The basket with curved bars and four urn finials above a pierced apron with applied rosette paterae and beaded decoration, the shoulders with descending bell flowers and the whole supported on tapering legs. English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
firegrate	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms
fender	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 13193

GENEROUS AND GRAND:
A very fine giant of a grate, in the early Georgian style, fashioned in polished steel and cast iron, it's breadth and depth speaking of strength and presence. The large basket with a pair of stylised polished steel finials is fronted by a cut steel serpentine apron centred by a boar's head amid scrolling floral motifs supported on either side by a pair of tall standards with elongated polished steel urn finials above simple column legs.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
overall dimensions	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	17 1⁄8" 43.5 cms
back width	24" 61 cms

Stock: 12987

BAROQUE GRANDEUR. A huge cast iron firegrate in the Italian Baroque manner with a shaped, scrolled and semi-hooded backplate, three heavy curved front bars flanked by scrolled finials and fronted by a pair of massive elaborate baluster andirons. English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	36" 91.5 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms
Back width	35 3⁄8" 90 cms

Stock: 9889

Arts & Crafts:
A unique and elegant Arts and Crafts bow fronted fire basket on a grand scale with a delicate pierced brass apron of floral motifs, a pair of tall slender andirons, the ball finials etched with stylised suns resting on brass ball and claw feet. Identical, except for the andirons, to one in the Great Chamber at Gilling Castle shown below in a late 19th century photo. English circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	28" 71 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 13288

A small cast iron and steel serpentine fronted firegrate in the Rococo manner, with scrolled bar posts and feet, an arched backplate, four urn finials and a simple pierced apron with interspersed paterae, supported on scrolled feet.
English circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	13" 33 cms
Back Width	17 1⁄4" 44 cms

Stock: 13190

An impressive cast iron & brass mounted fire basket, with a shaped fireback with a central cartouche and scrolling acanthus leaves, the basket supported by a pair of magnificent monopodial winged griffin andirons.
Circa 1880.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall Dimensions	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	26 3⁄16" 66.5 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms
Back Width	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 11276

A fine Edwardian cast iron antique fire grate. The high front has an embossed repousse brass panel with a floral motif set above the grate, surrounded by stylised bead and reel edging . The grate has an original firebrick interior and is mounted with a pair of brass urn finials set above vertical serpentine fire bars and is flanked by a pair taller baluster standards with squat scrolled feet.
English early 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
Max external	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms
Internal

Stock: 13274

A curious cast iron antique Victorian fire grate with an ornate Rococo style fireback decorated with a florally embellished rocaille crest set above a Bacchanalian scene. The basket, with large chained bar circles, is supported by a pair of barley twist, acanthus decorated standards set on peg feet.
English, circa 1870 or earlier.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	21 1⁄4" 54 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
Back width	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 13192

A large polished iron Georgian style fire basket. The sunburst backplate behind the four bar bow fronted grate, the beaded and engraved spandrels above a decorative cut and pierced apron flanked by oval medallions together with the four urn finials are all typical of the Adam style.
Mid 19th century

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	Width	Height	Depth
Overall dimensions	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	34 1⁄4" 87.2 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms
back width	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 13209

A large cylindrical ornate antique French cast iron wood burning stove, with ornate cast decorative detail in the Renaissance manner, mounted on spoked wheels either side and a forward roller for ease of movement using the front mounted ebonised handle.
French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	28 11⁄16" 73 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 12231

A 20th century cast iron firegrate in the neoclassical style with a plain arched backplate bolted to shouldered sideplates, with two tapering and flat firebars surmounted by brass urn finials over a florally pierced and engraved apron flanked by scroll supports surmounted by similar larger urn finials.
English 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	23 3⁄8" 59.5 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 12385

A large Baroque style cast iron Victorian fire basket with a shaped fireback and mounted with a pair of brass urn finials supported on tall florally incised brass baluster standards.
English, mid to late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	26" 66 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms
Back width	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 13054

A large and unusually tall Regency pierced brass serpentine firegrate, with elaborate urn finials, and a cast iron fireback decorated with mythical sea creatures and a delicate maiden shepherdess under a tree. An almost identical firegrate was in the Etruscan Room of Home House, Portman Square, London - please see the image below.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	40 7⁄8" 104 cms	17 1⁄4" 44 cms
Back width	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 12899

A Georgian style two bar pierced and engraved polished steel fire grate with integral back plate. The serpentine apron decorated with paterae above a linked detail the paterae repeated on the urn topped uprights and shoulders.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms
Back width	19 1⁄4" 49 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: 12868

An antique Arts and Crafts cast iron, brass and copper fire grate with lion mask head cresting, the basket with intriguingly cast designed front bars flanked by Birds Talons holding brass balls over scrolled feet. It comes with removable original ash pan tray. Late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	27 5⁄8" 70 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms
Back width	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 12474

A small cast and wrought iron Victorian fire basket with scrolled feet and urn finials.Two firebars, with two small scrolls under the bars.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms

Stock: 12594

A late 19th century wrought iron Arts & Crafts log grate with large brass finials behind brass rings above scrolled feet.
English, circa 1890.

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	width	height	depth
External	28" 71 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Back width	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 10044

A rare period George III cast iron & steel Fire grate, the
pierced apron flanked by urns, above bead and button frieze
and hexagonal tapered legs.
English 18th century with later restorations.

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	width	height	depth
External	36 1⁄2" 92.7 cms	33 5⁄8" 85.3 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms
Back width	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 12546

A small rare and exquisite Queen Anne style Fire Grate. The iron main body with burnished turned firebars, flanked by spirally cast brass columns, under conical gadrooned finials, supported on slender cabriole legs with pad feet.
English, late19th 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: 12260

A handsome 19th century Georgian style firegrate in the manner of Robert Adam , similar to the one in the tapestry room at Nostell Priory...see image below. One of a near pair to an original 18th century example see stock no 10405.
English late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	34 5⁄8" 88 cms	41 11⁄16" 106 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms

Stock: 12030

A SPLENDID AND GRAND 19th CENTURY FIRE GRATE IN BRASS AND IRON with bronze feet. The two magnificent winged Griffins fronting the low slung deep log basket, embellished with five floral brass studs under the bowed firebars, over pretty C scrolled, central shell Rocaille brass detail. There are two slender topped urns atop the firebars and brass shoulders leading up to the later ornate fireback.
English 19th century, with restorations.

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	width	height	depth
	30 1⁄4" 77 cms	32 1⁄2" 82.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms
back plate	21 1⁄4" 54 cms

Stock: 12197

A cast iron and steel fire grate in the Neoclassical manner of Robert Adam, with two oval medallions cast into the spandrels and five smaller ones on the pierced apron mounted with four urn finials, the larger atop the taperered front supports. English, late 19th early 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
Overall	31 11⁄16" 80.5 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	11" 28 cms
Back plate	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 3206

A large Irish cast iron Fire Grate in the late Georgian manner, with brass clad front and pierced brass apron below the four shaped fire bars. This fire grate has its original brass front but the carcass was very damaged and has been rebuilt.
Irish early 19th century front with later restoration. Chantry

	Width	Height	Depth
External	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	28" 71 cms	13 3⁄8" 34 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: 9073

A large brass, steel and antique cast iron fire grate in the Georgian manner of Robert Adam. The pierced and engraved serpentine apron, flanked by a pair of tall obelisk styled supports raised on cluster four column supports. There is a crown stamp with the letters SC on the upper left polished return, possibly indicating a governmental, ministerial or institutional provenance.
English, mid to late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms
Back plate	21 7⁄8" 55.5 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: 10281

A rare firegrate in the Mid Georgian Chippendale Rococo manner with large cabriole brass legs topped with flamed urn finials, with shell front motif flanking the serpentine brass apron under the bowed firebars which themselves are topped with knopped finials. English 19th century.
Note: A similar grate can be see in Hogarth's painting of Marrriage a la Mode.

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	width	height	depth
External	26" 66 cms	19 1⁄8" 48.4 cms	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms
Back width	16 1⁄2" 42 cms

Stock: 10015

A very large Neo Gothic Regency cast iron fire grate possibly made by J.S. Morris Cooking-Kitchen & Stove Grate Manufacturer, Devonport (1828) contractor to the Board of Ordnance and the United Gas Company who supplied military stores and materials, please see their advertisement below. English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Max	40" 101.5 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	21 1⁄2" 54.5 cms

Stock: 10061

A large English Regency cast iron fire basket. Baronial, imposing, handsome, describes this grate, with dual wolfhound monopodea andirons...rings in their mouths and paw feet joined by downswept side rails to the foliate cast back, with trefoil top flourish. The front bars with tie baton detail.The second image below shows a very similar grate in Charles Dickens' Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent. English, circa 1820. English, circa 1820.

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	width	height	depth
	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	26 5⁄8" 67.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 9135

A small and charming Arts and Crafts cast iron and brass mounted antique firegrate.
Early, 20th century.

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	WIdth	Height	Depth
	20 11⁄16" 52.5 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms

Stock: 11121

An unusual wrought iron rustic firegrate with an oval shaped firebasket suspended between two spear topped four legged supports.
English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	32 3⁄8" 82.3 cms	17 1⁄8" 43.4 cms	13 1⁄8" 33.2 cms

Stock: 9765

A large wrought iron Arts and Crafts Log-Grate with projecting flat scrollwork hob-brackets either side, and supporting underneath, the front bars centred by a central support also with matching scrolled detail and outswept side supports with twisted tapering terminals surmounted by large disc finials.
English circa 1880.

Scale: Large

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	Width	Height	Depth
	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	29 7⁄8" 76 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 10996

A splendid Early Georgian style bronze and cast iron Fire Grate, from the original model produced around 1730 by Messers Feetham, Soho Square, in a design from Thomas Chippendale's " Modern Fashion ". Featured in The Connoisseur Magazine, circa 1920 - see below.
Mid Victorian.

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	width	height	depth
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms