AFTER A DESIGN BY GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRASS AND STEEL-MOUNTED CAST-IRON FIREGRATE
AFTER A DESIGN BY GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The design based on the tomb of Agrippa, the bowfront turned baluster bar with tapering basket above a grille, between rectangular panels above sarcophagus end panels centred by lion's head masks and mounted with acanthus leaves, on paw feet and rectangular stepped plinths, two feet later, later foliage and lion mask mounts
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high; 33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The Grecian-pedimented and palm-flowered grate is of sarcophagus form, derived from the Pantheonic 'Tomb of Agrippa' (illustrated in E. Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, London, 1963, fig. 112). This pattern of 'Agrippa' stove or firegrate featured in a sketch by George Bullock, [inscribed in his hand 'Plan of a Stove in Dining Room and Oak Study'] while employed at Tew Park, Oxfordshire around 1816 (C. Gilbert and A. Wells- Cole, The Fashionable Fire Place, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1985, p. 30, cat. no. 22). It is designed in the French Antique fashion, popularised by connoisseur collector Thomas Hope in his guide Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. A firegrate of this model was sold by the late Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire, 27-29 May 1987, lot 27.

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