Stock No: 16761

A small and very charming 19th century fire basket with an ornate Dutch fireback. The fireback depicts The Fox and the Stork, one of Aesop's fables, at the moment in which the stork has his revenge, serving supper to the fox in a long narrow vessel, after the fox had invited him to dine with him, serving the food in shallow bowls from which the stork couldn't eat. The moral is to not play tricks on others unless you wish for them to do the same in return. This charming fireback is mounted on an Aesthetic Movement fire grate, with ornate front bars, and allium bud form finials.

English, c.1880. View our collection of: Antique fire grates and log baskets.