19TH CENTURY

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An English cast iron and steel firegrate
19th century
The railed serpentine basket with urn finials above a pierced frieze flanked by four-pillar openwork standards with urn surmounts
31½ in. (80 cm.) high, 28 in. (96.5 cm.) wide, 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A pattern for a related standard grate with paired and urn-capped Doric pillars featured in the London stove grate maker William Glossop's, Treasury of designs issued as The Stove-Grate Makers Assistant, 1771, pl.8 (C.Gilbert and A.Wells-Cole The Fashionable Fire Place, Leeds, 1985, fig 39).

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