AN ENGLISH BRASS AND BLACKED-IRON SERPENTINE FIREGRATE
AN ENGLISH BRASS AND BLACKED-IRON SERPENTINE FIREGRATE
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AN ENGLISH BRASS AND BLACKED-IRON SERPENTINE FIREGRATE

19TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH BRASS AND BLACKED-IRON SERPENTINE FIREGRATE
19TH CENTURY
With urn finials and a pierced scrolling foliate frieze, on tapering legs and square feet; together with two sets of fire-irons
30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide; 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), Kingsland, West Sussex, and by descent.
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Lot Essay


Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth-century. He was known for his humourous, if sometimes dark, satirical writing as well as serious political and religous thought. His perhaps most famous work was Cautionary Tales for Children, published in 1907, satirising Victorian morality, with often bizarre stories such as Rebecca, who 'slammed doors for fun and perished miserably'. This work was to later heavily influence the works of Roald Dahl and his illustrator Quentin Blake.

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