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A Regency steel and brass fire grate, after a design by George Bullock circa 1820
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- steel brass
- 56cm. high, 88cm. wide, 38cm. deep; 1ft. 10in., 2ft. 10½in., 1ft. 3in.
Provenance
Mellerstain, Berwickshire. The firegrate is illustrated in the dining room, see Arthur T Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, London, 1984, p.255.
Catalogue Note
The design of this fire grate is based upon an unsigned drawing by George Bullock at Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire and inscribed 'Plan of Stove in Dining room and Oak Study'. The connection of Bullock to this design of grate was first suggested by C. Gilbert and A. Wells-Cole in the exhibition catalogue for The Fashionable Fire Place, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1985, p.30, cat. no. 22.
Bullock most likely sought inspiration from A. Desgodetz, Les Edifices Antiques de Rome, published in Paris in 1682, which illustrates the Tomb of Agrippa in the Pantheon in Rome, upon which this design is based (see E. Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, London, 1963, fig. 112).