A Victorian brass and cast-iron fire basket, the shaped arched canopy cast with a panel of scrolling acanthus headed by harebells and centred by an anthemion flanked by laurel leaves and terminating in flowerheads, the bowfront pierced acanthus-cast ashtray flanked by acanthus-cast cabriole supports headed by lion heads and terminating in hairy paw feet, 34ins (86.5cm) high, 24½ins (62cm) wide