ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS ELSLEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III-STYLE BRASS AND BLACKED-IRON FIREGRATE
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS ELSLEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The square tapering standards with urn finials, with pierced apron; together with a set of William IV brass and steel fire-irons comprising a shovel, poker and tongs
The grate: 29 in. (74 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired by Lady Weinstock from Partridge Fine Arts, London, 12 March 2002.

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Lot Essay

This firegrate can be related to an example in Temple Newsam cast with the name 'T. Elsley' (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol. I pp. 151-2, fig. 187). Thomas Elsley produced a pattern book of 94 designs for brass fittings in 1933 (N. Goodison, 'The Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of Metal-work pattern books', Furniture History, vol. XI, 1975, p. 25).

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