Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 3rd October 2018
Lot 249
A Victorian cast iron fire-grate in Gothic style
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £400
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Description
A Victorian cast iron fire-grate in Gothic style, the scroll back decorated with a Bagot goat jumping a fence, above a railed front, with turned finials, 74cm high, 64cm wide, 28cm deep, together with a Victorian cast iron fender, probably by Coalbrookdale, decorated with a band of scrolling leaves, stamped 'No. 96 48 & 54', two Victorian Gothic fire irons, each with gilt bronze handles, stamped with a registration lozenge, a brass coal box and cover, two copper log bins and a coal shovel. (8)
Provenance: Lady Bagot, Blithfield Hall.
The Bagot goat is believed to be Britain's oldest breed of goat and has lived semi-wild at Blithfield Hall in Staffordshire for over six hundred years.