Lot 45
45
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE (Lots 45-46)
AN EARLY VICTORIAN STEEL AND BRASS FENDER

Details
AN EARLY VICTORIAN STEEL AND BRASS FENDER
Of serpentine shape, with rounded corners each with a foliate-cast lift-out fire-iron support, the pierced frieze with trailing ivy- leaves scrolling from a shell cartouche, on a shaped sheet-steel base, one support with indistinct Registration mark
74½ in. (189.2 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58 cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to George Edward Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (d. 1876) for Serlby Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Oswold, 'Serlby Hall, Nottinghamshire - II', Country Life, 2 April 1959, p. 710, fig. 7.

Lot Essay

The brass fender, whose Cupid-bow rail is twinted by ivy emerging from a Venus-shell cartouche, relates to one bearing an 1845 Registry mark, sold anonymously in these Rooms, 26 April 1990, lot 4. The fender is illustrated in situ in the dining-room at Serlby Hall, Nottinghamshire (A. Oswold, 'Serlby Hall, Nottinghamshire - II', Country Life, 2 April 1959, p. 71, fig. 7) and may have formed part of the fireplace modernisation carried out by George Edward Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway (d. 1876) following his marriage to Henrietta Eliza Milnes in 1838.

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