Lot Essay
The design of this piece relates to a register grate by George Binns, of Dame Street, Dublin, illustrated in The Fashionable Fireplace, Temple Newsam House Exhibition, Leeds, 1985, p. 23
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AN IRISH GUN METAL, POLISHED STEEL AND CAST-IRON REGISTER GRATE, the railed front with urn finials above a pierced frieze with engraved oval paterae and foliage, the surround incised with anthemia, vases, urns and scrolls, the top with applied roundels (the urns replaced), late 18th century
36¼in. (92cm.) wide; 40½in. (103cm.) high; 10in. (25cm.) deep
36¼in. (92cm.) wide; 40½in. (103cm.) high; 10in. (25cm.) deep