Antique Fire Grates & Fire Baskets
A selection of original antique fire grates and fire baskets including English Georgian, Regency, Victorian, French Rococo and Arts and Crafts.
Whether you have an antique Victorian, Rococo or Georgian fireplace (or any other style), they'll be an item to suit below.
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Stock: 14529
A very fine and highly ornate large cast iron and ormolu mounted Rococo style fire basket. The sturdy cross hatch grate front, embellished with foliate detail, is centred by a fleur de lys style panel. The whole supported on elaborately scrolled acanthus supports. English, late 19th century.
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height |
depth |
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35"
89 cms |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
13"
33 cms |
| back |
22"
56 cms |
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Stock: 14510
An early 19th century Adam style three barred cast iron fire grate mounted with a pair of small polished iron finials, a cut and beaded apron and supported by a pair of fluted standards topped by a larger pair of urn finials above paterae detail. English mid to late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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25 3⁄16"
64 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
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Stock: 11355
A neoclassical style cast iron and brass 20th century firegrate with four brass urn finials, a pierced brass foliate decorated apron and scrolled supports resting on peg feet. Early 20th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
| External |
23 3⁄16"
59 cms |
23 13⁄16"
60.5 cms |
14 3⁄16"
36 cms |
| Back width |
15"
38 cms |
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Stock: 14446
A Victorian Rococo style brass and cast iron antique fire grate with a tall shaped back plate and a pair of fine brass winged Griffin raised on ball and claw feet supporting the bow fronted grate which is embellished with seven floral brass studs set above the cut and scrolled brass apron.
English 19th century, with later restoration.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
34 5⁄8"
88 cms |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
| Back width |
21 1⁄4"
54 cms |
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Stock: 12829
An Arts & Crafts cast iron firegrate with a medieval lamplighter and decorative imagery and symbols of geometric form cast in the integral back and grate. English, early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
17 1⁄4"
44 cms |
29 7⁄8"
76 cms |
11 3⁄8"
29 cms |
| Back width |
13 13⁄16"
35 cms |
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Stock: 14421
A rare antique French Cobalt blue ceramic wood burning stove. The two fretwork doors on the front open to reveal a small oven, The wood is loaded by means of the side firebox door.
French, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
27 5⁄8"
70 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
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Stock: 14144
A large cast iron antique Victorian log grate fronted with four linked circles, in place of bars, set top and bottom with knopped finials. The grate supported on fine quality cast brass baluster andirons with splayed legs and small ball feet.
English early 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
46 1⁄2"
118 cms |
22 3⁄8"
57 cms |
22"
56 cms |
| Back width |
24"
61 cms |
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Stock: 14198
An interesting Arts & Crafts cast and wrought iron antique fire grate. The four barred scoop basket is supported at the back on a single scrolled foot and is suspended between a pair of tall splay footed standards with griffin holding rings in their mouths.
English late 19th early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
32 1⁄2"
82.5 cms |
23 3⁄8"
59.5 cms |
15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
| Internal |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
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Stock: 14205
A iron, steel and brass Rococo style two barred antique firegrate with a tall pediment shaped backplate. The basket supported by a pair of powerful monopodic
panthers, holding rings in their mouths, linked by a cut cross and rosette skirt. Identical to SNo 13837
English,circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
15"
38 cms |
| Back width |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
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Stock: 14140
A large high backed Victorian cast iron and brass antique fire basket. The tall domed backplate set with a sun mask above festoons within a frame of trailing grape vines. The three barred grate with a cut brass apron is supported by a tall pair of striking barley twist standards raised on large ball and claw feet.
English mid 19th century.
Notes: There was an identical fire grate in The Prince's Room at Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire circa 1900 please see last image.
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height |
depth |
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39 3⁄8"
100 cms |
41 1⁄8"
104.5 cms |
15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
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21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
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Stock: 14236
A large cast iron and brass antique firegrate, somewhat in the Chippendale manner, with a broken pediment backplate set behind a three barred grate mounted with a pair of flambeau finials above applied brass decoration flanked by a pair of brass dolphins. The brass serpentine apron is supported by a pair of large brass monopodic winged griffin. Provenance: By repute from Gaddesby Hall a Grade II listed House in Gaddesby, Leicestershire, England. English mid 19th century.
Notes: Gaddesby Hall was built on the site of an earlier house called Paske Hall pulled down in 1744 and the present Hall erected. It had several owners including the Nedham, Ayre and Cheney families After suffering neglect the Hall was reduced in size and renovated during the 1950s.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
| Back width |
20 7⁄8"
53 cms |
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Stock: 13837
A iron, steel and brass Rococo style two barred antique firegrate with a tall pediment shaped backplate. The basket supported by a pair of powerful monopodia panthers holding rings in their mouths, linked by a cut cross and rosette skirt. Identical to SNo 14205.
English,circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
26 1⁄2"
67.3 cms |
31 1⁄2"
80 cms |
15"
38 cms |
| Back width |
18 7⁄8"
48 cms |
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Stock: 14275
A smart polished steel three barred Georgian style antique fire basket with
four mounted knopped finials, a diamond design pierced apron and supported
on a pair of robust scrolled feet.
English late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
23 13⁄16"
60.5 cms |
15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
| Back width |
19 1⁄8"
48.5 cms |
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Stock: 14266
A large Victorian cast iron and bronze antique fire basket. The wide low grate with vertical lozenge bars, above a bronze swag draped apron, rests on a pair of classical style urn andirons hung with swags and topped by flame finials with smaller flame finials mounted on the grate.
English late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
32 11⁄16"
83 cms |
16 1⁄4"
41.5 cms |
16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
| Back width |
21 1⁄2"
54.5 cms |
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Stock: 7739
An impressive large serpentine fronted 18th century polished iron antique fire basket in the manner of Robert Adam, with etched spandrels, paterae & endblocks, a beaded border and four urn finials. Identical to one in Soho House, Birmingham, the house designed by James Wyatt, but this firegrate was probably made by Matthew Boulton (1728 -1809) partner to James Wyatt and a leading light in the English Industrial Revolution. English, circa 1790.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
29 13⁄16"
75.6 cms |
17 13⁄16"
45.1 cms |
| Back panel |
23 3⁄16"
59 cms |
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Stock: 13829
A very fine antique pierced and engraved, polished steel Georgian Summer Grate showing the influence of Robert Adam (1728-1792). The squared backplate sits behind the three barred fire basket which is mounted by two pairs of urn finials and has a delicately engraved detail on the edging flanked by beaded shoulders etched with lozenge cut paterae. The chamfered legs have further lozenge cut paterae.
English circa 1780.
Notes: This type of grate was called a dog grate but became more commonly known as a "Summer Grate" because the more decorative etched front had the option to be lifted off, as a protection against any possible heat damage, when the fire was lit in winter months. This would reveal the more simply designed second grate front as shown in the last image.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
34 5⁄8"
88 cms |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
14 3⁄16"
36 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄8"
51 cms |
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Stock: 10405
A handsome English Regency cast iron firegrate in the manner of Robert Adam, with a beaded arched sunburst backplate, reversed in the radiating grate bars, bead edging to the spandrels, each centred by a lozenge paterae, the apron with a bead edged, cut paterae motif flanked by finely etched urn finials on the standards. Similar to the one in the Tapestry Room at Nostell Priory please see the images below.
English, circa 1820.
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height |
depth |
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34 13⁄16"
88.3 cms |
36 3⁄16"
92 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
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Stock: 13399
A large iron and steel fire basket in the Georgian manner, with a high arched back and four steel finials mounted on top of the turned front grate bars above a serpentine finely cut and pierced apron, depicting floral and dragon detail, the grate supported on a pair of tall baluster turned standards.
Please note that there is a crack to the backplate which has been reinforced with braces to the back and there is another crack to the metal firebrick at the back of the grate.
English, circa 1870.
Notes: An identical fire grate was advertised by Mark Feetham & Co. in The Connoisseur magazine of May 1909, please see last image below.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
40 7⁄8"
104 cms |
32 1⁄8"
81.5 cms |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
| Back width |
29 1⁄2"
75 cms |
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Stock: 14155
An unusually large and opulent, antique Rococo style brass & cast iron fire basket mounted by a pair of small brass acanthus finials and with a scrolled serpentine brass apron flanked by a pair of substantial, highly ornate baluster standards topped by larger acanthus finials and raised on rocaille scrolled feet.
English mid 19th century.
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width |
height |
depth |
| External |
42 1⁄8"
107 cms |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
18 7⁄8"
48 cms |
| Back width |
27 13⁄16"
70.5 cms |
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Stock: 14132
"HOUNDS OF HADES "
A large and striking antique cast iron Victorian fire basket,
the two barred grate
supported by a pair of standards with monopodic
hounds head finials, the hounds holding rings in their mouths, supported
on large paw feet. Identical to Stock No. 14132 without the backplate.
English mid 19th century.
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height |
depth |
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27 3⁄16"
69 cms |
32 11⁄16"
83 cms |
16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
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Stock: 13045
An antique cast iron and brass Victorian fire grate. The arched back is decorated with a balustrade of spindles, below foliage and flowers. The front fire bars and brass apron are flanked by large and intricately pierced cast brass andirons with satyr and lion masks in the Dutch manner.
English, circa 1870.
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height |
depth |
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38 5⁄8"
98 cms |
24 3⁄8"
62 cms |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
| back |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
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Stock: 9181
CARRON OF FALKIRK
A very grand Adam style Carron Foundry firegrate, in burnished cast iron, with a beaded arched back, radiating sunburst bars, elaborate Elysian scenes on the front and spandrels & slim tapering standards topped by elegant swagged urns above goats head masks. The Registered design number 323183 for 1898/9 is cast into the back and beneath it is the catalogue number and name 'No. 8 Dog Stove'.
Scottish late 19th century.
Provenance: Made by the Carron Foundry in Falkirk, Scotland and identical, except for the bars, to one shown below in an advertisement in the June 1906 Connoisseur Magazine.
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Height |
Depth |
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36 5⁄8"
93 cms |
36 3⁄16"
92 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
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Stock: 13770
A fine George III style three barred polished steel firegrate surmounted by a pair of spire finials above a deep, engraved & pierced serpentine apron with a further taller pair of spire finials on the faceted columned standards. English late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
22 5⁄8"
57.5 cms |
16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
| Back Width |
19 1⁄8"
48.5 cms |
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Stock: 14076
A small but rather grand cast iron Victorian fire basket in the Baroque manner. The arch shaped back centred by a fierce lions head mask sits above a grate with bars held by a pair of vertical baluster rods flanked by a pair of sturdy baluster standards.
English Circa 1870.
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width |
height |
depth |
| External |
19 7⁄8"
50.5 cms |
24 3⁄8"
62 cms |
14 5⁄8"
37 cms |
| Back width |
16 7⁄8"
43 cms |
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Stock: 13740
A large cast and wrought iron Arts and Crafts fire basket supported by a pair of very tall spear shaped standards flanking the substantial rose adorned three barred grate.
English late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
35 3⁄8"
90 cms |
30 13⁄16"
78.2 cms |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
| Internal |
24"
61 cms |
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Stock: 13268
SIMPLY SPLENDID:
A magnificent and rare late 18th Century "Summer Grate".
This very important George III grate is fashioned in bright cut polished steel. It is a most generously large grate with very finely etched and engraved foliate and acanthus designs and applied beading, a skirt of lozenge cut paterae, vase shaped finials and chamfered etched legs very much in the Neo-classical style and clearly showing the influence of Robert Adam (1728-1792).
There is an identical grate in the V&A Museum, London which is believed to have been made in the late 18th century by an iron founder named Henry Jackson of Saffron Hill, Smithfield, a copy of his trade card is below.
This type of grate was called a dog grate but became more commonly known as a "Summer Grate" because the expensively etched front could be lifted off during the winter months, to protect it from damage when the fire was lit, thereby revealing behind the more simply etched second grate front. It would almost certainly have been specially commissioned to complement a grand chimneypiece.
There are two other known identical grates both in Spencer House, an 18th century mansion built in 1756-66 in St. James's, London.
English, Circa 1790.
SCALE: V. Large
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Height |
Depth |
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43"
109.2 cms |
38"
96.5 cms |
18"
45.7 cms |
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Stock: 13863
A very fine polished steel and cast iron Regency three barred fire grate
mounted with small lidded urn finials and fronted by an intricately cut
apron supported on an pair of scrolled supports raised on baluster feet
and topped with a larger pair of lidded urn finials.
English, early 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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29 1⁄8"
74 cms |
24 3⁄8"
62 cms |
16 7⁄8"
43 cms |
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Stock: 13781
A very attractive 19th century Victorian Rococo style brass and iron three barred fire grate with an ornate scrolled high arched backplate, twin bud and vase brass finials and a pair of elaborate winged monopodic griffin supports linked by a beaded skirt. English late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
32 1⁄8"
81.5 cms |
12 5⁄8"
32 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄8"
51 cms |
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Stock: 13525
Carron of Falkirk:
A truly beautiful and grand bronze and cast iron Adam style firegrate, one of a series made by the Carron Foundry to the same design . With a beaded arched back radiating sunburst bars, elaborate Elysian scenes on the front and spandrels & slim tapering standards topped by elegant swagged urns above goats head masks. The fire basket with scooped radial bars, the pierced apron centred with a delicately embossed panel depicting a maiden with her pet lamb watched by an amorini. The Carron catalogue number and name, 'No. 8 Dog Stove' is cast into the back. Please see image below from page 16 of the Carron Catalogue Company – "Architects' Catalogue". This second Carron grate is identical in design, except for the panel on the frieze, to the polished steel and iron grate SNo 9181.
Scottish circa 1898/99.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
37"
94 cms |
35 13⁄16"
91 cms |
15"
38 cms |
| Back width |
21 1⁄4"
54 cms |
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Stock: 14062
A small two barred George III style 20th century steel and brass firegrate with rosette bar terminals, a pair of brass urn finials mounted on the grate and a cut brass
serpentine apron supported either side on tapering brass legs surmounted by a further pair of urn finials.
English mid 20th century.
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depth |
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21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
12 5⁄8"
32 cms |
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17 1⁄4"
44 cms |
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Stock: 8414
A massive English Regency cast iron log grate.The imposing andirons with scrolled cabriole bases centred by anthymion motifs, beneath turned gadrooned finials either side of serpentine cast-iron firebars.
English, circa 1800.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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51 1⁄4"
130.2 cms |
26 11⁄16"
67.9 cms |
16 1⁄2"
41.9 cms |
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Stock: 13739
An imposing cast iron and bronze mounted Baroque style antique Victorian fire grate
with an arched stylised sunburst backplate. The finely detailed grate with a
central barley twist bar is fronted by a pair of fine tall andirons mounted with
jewel like bronze decoration.
English circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
35"
89 cms |
24 5⁄8"
62.5 cms |
17 1⁄4"
44 cms |
| Internal |
22"
56 cms |
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Stock: 13649
An attractive cast iron and brass mounted Georgian style antique Victorian fire grate. The shaped back depicting Prometheus holding the Olympic torch symbolising light and life, immortaity and enlightenment. The grate mounted by four brass urn finials and simple spandrels above a serpentine pierced and cut brass apron centred with a pair guarded by a pair of couchant lions supported on quadrupled legs.
English mid to late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
30 1⁄2"
77.5 cms |
36 3⁄8"
92.5 cms |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
| Back width |
19 1⁄8"
48.5 cms |
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Stock: 12945
An attractive 20th century polished steel & iron fire grate in the Rococo manner with scrolled bar posts, arched fireback, unusual straight pierced apron and four baluster finials on scrolled legs.
English, 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
19 1⁄4"
49 cms |
22 3⁄8"
57 cms |
13 13⁄16"
35 cms |
| Back width |
17 1⁄8"
43.5 cms |
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Stock: 13577
A cast iron Baroque style Victorian fire grate with a large shaped backplate, a wide basket with strapped ball finials flanked by proud highly stylised andirons raised on scrolled legs each centred by cartouche shields.
English circa 1860.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
46 1⁄8"
117 cms |
29 11⁄16"
75.5 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
| Back width |
28 1⁄4"
72 cms |
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Fire Baskets: The History
Fire baskets have been used for millennia.
In the UK, the first example of a fire basket being used is from the Iron Age Period, and this is currently on display at The British Museum. It is a simple open fire basket, where logs rest inside the bars, providing heat and also a place for cooking.
Fast forward to the 17th century, where the use of a fire basket for open fires became mandatory after the great fire of London.
17th century fire log baskets are very rare and today, the vast majority of antique fire baskets for sale are either Georgian, Regency or Victorian.
Updating Antique Fire Grates and Baskets for Modern Use
Fire grates and baskets can be updated for more modern use in the home today. Most of our antique fire baskets can be converted to a gas fire basket, where the grid used for burning wood or coal is simply cut and a gas fire basket unit is placed inside it.
This can then have a manual switch or a remote control for you to control the fire. This is perfect if you have antique fireplaces and you want your fire baskets to be period too.
Whether you have a cast iron fire basket, or a steel fire basket, there are suitable conversion options for you:
- Ethanol burners are a good option if you don’t have a fireplace flue and want decorative flames.
- However, gas fire baskets are the superior option if you are also looking for a heat source! Both have the flexibility to be used with both large and small fire baskets.
Whether you are looking for a Victorian fire basket or something a little earlier, our large stock of antique fire baskets should have something for you. If you are looking for something specific, please contact us and we would be delighted to assist!