Lot Essay
The golden stove grate is designed in the George III 'antique' manner with urn-capped obelisk 'dogs' and trellised rail, whose ribbon-guilloche is fretted with flowered lozenge compartments. A related stove grate pattern features in Messres Ince & Mayhew's, Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762. (pl.90). Related designs are also illustrated in a volume by William and John Welldon published in 1765 and entitled The Smith's Right Hand or a Complete Guide to the Various Branches of all Sorts of Iron Work. Christopher Gilbert & Anthony Wells-Cole, The Fashionable Fire Place 1660-1840, Leeds City Art Galleries, 1985 (Pages 51-60.)