Live Auction 5730THE NIGEL BARTLETT COLLECTION
A large George III cast and wrought iron 'hob' grate
Lot 187

A large George III cast and wrought iron 'hob' grate

CIRCA 1810

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GBP 7,200

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A large George III cast and wrought iron 'hob' grate
Circa 1810
The uprights with spiralled pilasters on paw feet below the arched backplate cast with acanthus scrolls, with brass mounts
39 in. (99 cm.) high, 41 in. (104 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

Formerly: Red Lodge, Bristol.

Specialist note

This handsome grate with its Grecian bacchic lion feet and Elizabethan spiralled pillars is likely to be the one acquired in the early l9th century by the eminent ethnologist Dr. James Cowles Pritchard for the Elizabethan parlour at The Red Lodge, Bristol (of circa 1577-85), (illustrated in situ in Country Life, 21st November 1903 p.722 )