A REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED TOLE COAL-BOX, the domed lid with stepped finial above a tapering body with tamed lion-mask handles and removable liner, upon claw feet, 17¾in. (45cm.) wide; a coal-shovel; a Regency steel and brass ring-turned poker and a spark-guard (4)

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A REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED TOLE COAL-BOX, the domed lid with stepped finial above a tapering body with tamed lion-mask handles and removable liner, upon claw feet, 17¾in. (45cm.) wide; a coal-shovel; a Regency steel and brass ring-turned poker and a spark-guard (4)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Langford-Brooke (d. 1815)

Lot Essay

A closely related suite of Regency coal-boxes, supplied to Harewood House, Yorkshire and illustrated in The Fashionable Fireplace, 1660-1840, Exhibition Catalogue Leeds, 1985, no. 46, were sold by The Trustees of The Harewood Charitable Trust, Christie's London, 10 April 1986, lot 67

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