Fireback Showing Poseidon

Lovely tall and decorative fireback with a depiction of Poseidon holding trident, the sea, four horses and cherubs holding trumpet. Bottom is rough and has a repair, overall great...

Beautifully detailed and square antique cast iron fireback. This fireback shows Poseidon standing on a big shell in between of his sea horses while holdi...

This antique fireback is in seriously used condition. It displays caritas which means unlimited loving-kindness to all others or "charity" in English. This is one of the "seven virt...

Sharp, square and decorative cast iron antique fireback. Mourning Queen next to a grave with a lion at her feet in between. Excellent condition, usable dimension. Can be used in...

Very heavy and large French cast iron fireback. Displaying five coats of arms and the date; 1622.

Nice square cast iron fireback displaying a wounded soldier during the Crimean war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Excellent condition and usable size. This fi...

A fine pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XV style gilt and patinated bronze figural chenets. Each cast as two patinated figures of amorini (Putti) growing out of leafy volute vi...

A very fine and charming pair of French 19th century Louis XV style figural gilt and patinated bronze chenets, each surmounted with a seated patinated bronze putto holding on to a br...

A fine pair of French 19th century Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted figural chenets. The ornately decorated andirons, each with a figure of a resting Putto (Children) holding a tor...

A fine pair of French 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze figural chenets (Andirons), each depicting a classically draped reclining figure, one male holding a Hammer and the othe...

A pair of wrought iron firedogs. The scrolled feet surmounted by tapering shafts and ball finials to top. Currently in buffed black lead finish, could be polished to high shine if re...

A pair of Charles II style, enamel brass and cast iron armorial firedogs, in the manner of Anthony Hatch and Stephen Pilcherd. Each firedog is decorated with red, blue and white enamel, the upperpart bearing the arms of Charles II or James II, the middle part formed of two nude male figures supporting the arms with a vase of flowers between them, the lower portions in the form of two convex disks decorated with flowers, with wrought iron supports. They are modelled after an example in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, formerly belonging to the Earl of Cowley. For a long time, their method of production -whereby the fields to be enameled were cast in the original moulds and not, as was more common, engraved (champlévé) or enclosed (cloisonné) - was referred to as Surrey Enamels after the author Charles R. Beard ascribed their manufacture to a factory in Esher, Surrey. However, documentary evidence makes a strong case for their reattribution to the London workshops of Anthony Hatch and Stephen Pilcherd, members of the Armourers' and Braziers' Company (see C. Blair and A. Petterson, 'Details for Surrey Enamels Reattributed (Part 1)', Journal of the Antique Metalware...