Lot Essay
A basket-grate of this pattern, with an urn-cast backplate and signed T Elsley Ltd London, was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 8 May 1991, lot 17.
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19TH CENTURY
Details
A GEORGE III STYLE ENGRAVED AND POLISHED-STEEL BASKET-GRATE
19th Century
The arched rectangular cast-iron backplate with a stylised arabesque of an altar flanked by winged maidens offering a libation, the serpentine-fronted grate with urn finials and beaded borders flanked by engraved roundels, above a pierced fret apron with central swagged panel and on tapering engraved legs surmounted by further urn finials
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep
19th Century
The arched rectangular cast-iron backplate with a stylised arabesque of an altar flanked by winged maidens offering a libation, the serpentine-fronted grate with urn finials and beaded borders flanked by engraved roundels, above a pierced fret apron with central swagged panel and on tapering engraved legs surmounted by further urn finials
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Bought from Pratt and Burgess, 17 October 1972.
Special notice
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