A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED STEEL AND CAST-IRON FIRE-GRATE, the design attributed to George Bullock, with channelled scrolled back-plate and barred-grate surmounted by finials between break-front end-supports with foliate sprays and claw-feet, the stepped rectangular plinths with rollers to the underside, with later removable gas fixture

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED STEEL AND CAST-IRON FIRE-GRATE, the design attributed to George Bullock, with channelled scrolled back-plate and barred-grate surmounted by finials between break-front end-supports with foliate sprays and claw-feet, the stepped rectangular plinths with rollers to the underside, with later removable gas fixture
34in. (86.5cm.) wide; 22½in. (57cm.) high; 13½in. (34.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 19 April 1990, lot 15

Lot Essay

The drawing illustrated shows an unsigned pencil drawing by George Bullock at Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and is inscribed in his hand Plan of Stove in Dining Room and Oak Study appears to confirm the attribution to Bullock of this distinctive design, first made in the exhibition catalogue, The Fashionable Fire Place, 1660-1840, Temple Newsam House, 1985, p.30, no.22.
Four grates of this design were sold from Tew Park in Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lots 4, 27, 48 and 155
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