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: 14370
A large, and rather grand Baroque style antique cast iron Victorian fire basket with a high arched sunburst themed backplate. The bow fronted grate has a lower knopped barley twist front bar beneath an upper bar surmounted with three knob finials. The grate is supported by a pair of columned standards, topped by pinnacle finials, above sturdy shaped feet.
English, circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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26 3⁄8"
67 cms |
33 7⁄8"
86 cms |
16 7⁄8"
43 cms |
| Back Width |
26 3⁄8"
67 cms |
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Stock: 14995
A large cast iron fire basket with an arched back-plate, a two barred grate mounted by a pair of simple globe finials and out-swept standards raised on scrolled feet. English, early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
31 1⁄8"
79 cms |
24 5⁄8"
62.5 cms |
17 7⁄8"
45.5 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄4"
51.5 cms |
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Stock: 13697
A very unusual cast iron Arts & Crafts fire grate dominated by both a dragon and a sunburst. Used here together they could well represent triumph over adversity. English early 19th century
Notes: In European tradition the dragon was typically fire-breathing and tended to symbolize adversity, chaos or evil. The sunburst symbol has been used throughout history by nations, royalty and religions. It is traditionally defined as the sudden appearance of the sun breaking through from behind clouds and so here could well represent success after adversity or light breaking through after darkness.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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26"
66 cms |
27 13⁄16"
70.5 cms |
12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
| Back width |
26 3⁄8"
67 cms |
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Stock: 14629
A large and impressive English Regency iron, steel and polished brass antique fire basket with a decorative stele crest backplate. The deep bow fronted grate, above a cut and linked medallion skirt, is supported by a pair of large brass standards formed as ribbon bound columns beneath lidded vase finials and raised on splendid lion claw feet. English, early 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
39 13⁄16"
101 cms |
31 1⁄8"
79 cms |
14 3⁄16"
36 cms |
| Back width |
26"
66 cms |
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Stock: 14600
A large early 20th century steel and cast iron three barred fire grate in the Georgian style with a fine floral and foliate cut serpentine apron. The grate is surmounted by a pair of small closed bud urn finials with a further taller pair topping the column standards.
English, early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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33 1⁄2"
85 cms |
22"
56 cms |
18 1⁄4"
46.5 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
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Stock: 14895
A cast iron, steel and brass mounted three bar fire grate, the arched backplate with elaborate foliate detail, the serpentine fronted grate with a central turned fire bar flanked by prominent griffin supports.
English, circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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29 1⁄2"
75 cms |
28"
71 cms |
15 11⁄16"
40 cms |
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Stock: 14898
A cast iron and brass late Victorian/Edwardian Rococo style antique two barred fire grate, with a more recent shaped back plate depicting playful cherubs, a decorative cut apron supported by a pair acanthus decorated fire dogs with cabriole legs topped by ornate
flambeau finials. English, early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
28 7⁄8"
73.5 cms |
27 13⁄16"
70.5 cms |
16 1⁄8"
41 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄4"
51.5 cms |
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Stock: 14574
A small Neoclassical style cast iron and brass Victorian fire basket the tall, possibly later associated, fire back with a depiction of 'The Fox and The Stork' from Aesop's Fables, the low three barred grate, surmounted by a pair of brass capped finials flanked by brass shoulders above a decoratively cut serpentine apron, is supported by tapered column standards topped by further capped finials. English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
24 13⁄16"
63 cms |
28 11⁄16"
73 cms |
11 13⁄16"
30 cms |
| Back width |
15"
38 cms |
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Stock: 13730
A large Thomas Elsley, English Regency style cast iron and brass three barred antique fire grate, surmounted by a pair of brass cluster finials, with a simple scrolled apron, supported on a pair of shapely brass legs. English, circa 1860.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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25 3⁄16"
64 cms |
21 1⁄2"
54.5 cms |
12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
| Internal |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
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Stock: 14851
An attractive and sturdy, cast iron and brass Louis XVI style antique Edwardian fire basket raised on tapering brass peg feet and with four brass pineapple finials mounted above the shaped and decorative grate front.
English, circa 1910.
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Height |
Depth |
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23 11⁄16"
60.2 cms |
15 3⁄8"
39 cms |
11 13⁄16"
30 cms |
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Stock: 14821
An attractive and neat mid Victorian cast iron and brass antique fire grate. The shaped backplate centred by a sunburst, the grate with six vertical bars is supported by a pair of slim turned standards with brass ball finials.
English, mid 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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23 3⁄16"
59 cms |
23"
58.5 cms |
14 3⁄16"
36 cms |
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Stock: 14862
A small and exquisite Queen Anne style cast iron and brass antique fire basket in the Baroque manner. The grate with burnished turned fire bars is supported to the front by a pair of very attractively styled brass standards with spiral columns, under conical gadrooned finials, on slender cabriole legs terminating in pad feet.
English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
24 13⁄16"
63 cms |
21 1⁄8"
53.5 cms |
11 13⁄16"
30 cms |
| Back width |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
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Stock: 14552
A Georgian style 19th century polished steel antique fire grate, with an arched backplate, in the manner of Robert Adam possibly made by Thomas Elsley. The three barred grate, with bead edging throughout, has two small mounted urn finials and etched oval paterae on the shoulders and echoed on the standards. The apron with finely cut alternating oval paterae and foliate motifs, the twin tapering etched standards are surmounted by a pair of larger urn finials. English, late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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31 7⁄8"
81 cms |
31 1⁄2"
80 cms |
13"
33 cms |
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Stock: 14255
A large and impressive Georgian style, steel and brass firebasket, with serpentine front bars. The brass apron is pierced and engraved with a central dragooned urn, between a pair of porpoises surrounded by foliage. Supported on tapered legs with engraved bell flower decoration and urn finials.
English, early 20th century, incorporating earlier elements.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
40 3⁄8"
102.5 cms |
25 3⁄8"
64.5 cms |
17 1⁄4"
44 cms |
| Back width |
25"
63.5 cms |
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Stock: 12271
A large and striking 20th century Neo Classical styled brass and iron fire grate in the late Georgian manner of Robert Adam. Tall with an arched cast iron back, and with profuse etching and small cast detail on the apron, spandrels, supports and the four urn finials. English, 20th century.
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height |
depth |
| Overall |
41 7⁄8"
106.5 cms |
34 1⁄4"
87 cms |
17 11⁄16"
45 cms |
| Back plate width |
22 3⁄16"
56.5 cms |
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Stock: 14830
A substantial Victorian, Baroque style antique cast iron fire grate with knopped, side supports, a high arched backplate, and sturdy shaped standards.
English, mid 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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29 7⁄8"
76 cms |
33 1⁄2"
85 cms |
12 3⁄16"
31 cms |
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Stock: 14816
A small but neat mid Victorian cast iron and brass antique fire grate with a studded backplate. The grate with a turned front bar is supported by a pair of standards with Gothic detail and brass finials raised on splayed feet.
English, mid Victorian.
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Height |
Depth |
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20 11⁄16"
52.5 cms |
23 5⁄8"
60 cms |
14 5⁄8"
37 cms |
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Stock: 14762
A large Victorian Rococo style cast iron and brass antique fire basket. The grate with bombe shaped vertical bars is supported by scrolled acanthus embellished legs. English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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24 3⁄8"
62 cms |
13 13⁄16"
35 cms |
11 13⁄16"
30 cms |
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Stock: 14804
A fine and grand Georgian style brass and cast iron antique fire basket. The arched backplate sits behind a three barred grate mounted with five tulip vase finials above a pierced and engraved serpentine apron depicting mythical dragons amid scrolling foliage. The grate is supported on a pair of four columned standards topped with taller tulip vase finials. English, circa 1870.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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41 1⁄2"
105.5 cms |
35"
89 cms |
20 7⁄8"
53 cms |
| Back width |
26"
66 cms |
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Stock: 10110
A rare and important pierced and engraved steel George III antique fire grate. It was manufactured in bright steel with very finely engraved foliate and acanthus detailing, applied beading, a skirt of lozenge paterae and lidded urn shaped finials set above chamfered engraved legs..
This large fire basket is from a design by Robert Adam, and probably made in the late 18th century by an iron founder one Henry Jackson of Saffron Hill, Smithfield in London. A similar grate is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington and there are a further two in the 18th century Spencer House in St. James's, London.
English, circa 1790.
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Height |
Depth |
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43"
109.2 cms |
37 1⁄2"
95.3 cms |
21"
53.3 cms |
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Stock: 13822
A Victorian iron and brass mounted antique fire grate in the Neoclassical style with a high split pediment sunburst backplate. The three barred fire basket, with twin urn finials above ornate foliate brass panels linked by a brass apron with a central paterae, is supported by a pair of legs with vase shaped feet beneath large lidded urn finials.
English, the Registered Mark on the back dates this grate at 1877.
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Height |
Depth |
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37"
94 cms |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
14 5⁄8"
37 cms |
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Stock: 14703
An antique Victorian cast iron and brass bow fronted antique fire basket with a shaped backplate, and a curved cut apron flanked by low standards each mounted with a small brass ball finial.
English, late 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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32 1⁄4"
82 cms |
22 5⁄8"
57.5 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
| Back width |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
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Stock: 13789
A large and elegant cast iron and patinated brass Victorian fire grate with a high arched sunburst fire back in the Georgian, Robert Ada style.The bow barred grate is flanked by pairs of quartered sunburst shoulders, with trailing acanthus detail, capped by a pair of patinated brass urn finials above an ornately cut serpentine apron. The whole is supported by a pair of low decorative standards raised on acanthus wrapped feet and mounted by a pair of larger urn finials English, mid 19th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
35 13⁄16"
91 cms |
34 13⁄16"
88.5 cms |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
| Back width |
21 1⁄4"
54 cms |
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Stock: 14635
A pleasingly simple Arts and Crafts cast iron five barred antique fire grate the shaped back with an oval boss feature the grate supported by a pair of tapering standards with flattened knopped finials.
English, early 20th century.
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Height |
Depth |
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21 1⁄8"
53.5 cms |
26 3⁄16"
66.5 cms |
13"
33 cms |
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Stock: 14532
A large wrought iron and bronze Arts and Crafts antique fire basket with a high shaped decorative backplate featuring a lion mask, scrolled grate bars and tall standards surmounted by bronze ball finials top and bottom raised on splayed, scrolled feet.
English, late 19th century.
Please note that the backplate is new.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
30 1⁄4"
77 cms |
40 3⁄16"
102 cms |
16 1⁄2"
42 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄4"
51.5 cms |
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Stock: 14748
A very attractive and finely made Regency style cast iron and brass antique firebasket. The high shaped backplate, decorated with swags, fronds and goats head masks, is behind a two barred grate mounted with a pair of small swagged brass urn finials and beaded shoulders above the curved foliate cut apron. The grate rests on a pair of ornate tapering standards topped by small four legged pedestals, each mounted with goats head masks and supporting lidded urns, above finely defined paterae. The original Adam designs for this grate are in the Soane Museum in London as mentioned in The English Fireplace by L. A. Shuffrey.
English, late 19th century.
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depth |
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30 11⁄16"
78 cms |
29 1⁄8"
74 cms |
14 13⁄16"
37.5 cms |
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19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
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Stock: 14720
A large antique Neoclassical style cast iron and brass three barred Victorian fire grate, with a high broken pediment backplate, small bulbous finials on the grate fronted by a pair of tall tapering andirons raised on scrolled feet.
English, circa 1870.
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Height |
Depth |
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37"
94 cms |
27 5⁄8"
70 cms |
22 13⁄16"
58 cms |
| Back width |
24 3⁄8"
62 cms |
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Stock: 14618
A tall green glazed ceramic and black cast iron stove, manufactured by Brevete S.G.D.G, with integral oven. The top frieze has two brass adjustable vents for additional heat control.
French, late 19th century.
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Depth |
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36 13⁄16"
93.5 cms |
56 7⁄8"
144.5 cms |
19 11⁄16"
50 cms |
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Stock: 13364
A large Baroque style antique Victorian cast iron fire basket with an arched sunburst back plate the grate with and simple front bars and the whole fronted by a pair of large urn style andirons, with shapely handles and rams head masks to the sides. English, 1870.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
38 3⁄16"
97 cms |
28 11⁄16"
73 cms |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
| Back width |
21 11⁄16"
55 cms |
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Stock: 14726
A cast iron and brass mounted Victorian fire basket in the Rococo style identical to SNo 10347. The raised back with scrolling foliate decoration above a four barred oval shaped grate, mounted with flambeau finials, embellished with scrolling brass acanthus detail continuing down the splayed feet.
English, circa 1900.
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Height |
Depth |
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19 1⁄8"
48.5 cms |
26"
66 cms |
11"
28 cms |
| Back width |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
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Stock: 14111
A small but sturdy two barred cast iron Victorian fire grate in the Arts & Crafts manner the front bars are held by turned standards with brass stylised rosette finials.
English, Circa 1870.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
19 1⁄4"
49 cms |
23 13⁄16"
60.5 cms |
14 3⁄16"
36 cms |
| Back width |
18 1⁄2"
47 cms |
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Stock: 14724
A cast iron and brass antique fire basket, with a shaped arched backplate, the grate with four serpentine front bars supported by a pair of twin tapering legs with entwined snake and flambeau finials.
English, circa 1900.
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Height |
Depth |
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21 1⁄4"
54 cms |
20 1⁄8"
51 cms |
11"
28 cms |
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Stock: 14352
An elegant serpentine fronted cast iron and brass antique fire grate in the late Georgian manner by Thomas Elsley of London The cartouche relief on the fire back is flanked by olive branches and scrolled acanthus. The barred grate, sits above a pierced apron studded with paterae and mounted by a pair of brass urn finials. The grate is supported by a pair of out-swept standards with paterae and acanthus detailing, topped by a larger pair of urn finials. English, mid to late 19th century.
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Height |
Depth |
| External |
35 5⁄8"
90.5 cms |
29 7⁄8"
76 cms |
18 1⁄8"
46 cms |
| Back width |
21 1⁄8"
53.5 cms |
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Stock: 10640
A mid 20th century cast iron and brass two barred fire grate in the early Georgian manner with small brass finials, a scrolled cut apron and fronted by a pair of baluster andirons with floral detail raised on pairs of lion paw feet. English, mid twentieth century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
| External |
35 3⁄8"
90 cms |
26 3⁄8"
67 cms |
13 13⁄16"
35 cms |
| Back width |
20 1⁄2"
52 cms |
28"
71 cms |
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Stock: 10347
A cast iron and brass mounted Victorian fire basket in the Rococo style identical to SNo 14726. The raised back with scrolling foliate decoration above a four barred oval shaped grate, mounted with flambeau finials, embellished with scrolling brass acanthus detail continuing down the splayed feet.
English, early 20th century.
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Width |
Height |
Depth |
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19"
48.2 cms |
26"
66 cms |
9 3⁄8"
24 cms |
| Back width |
18 1⁄8"
46 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!