A Regency brass mounted, polished steel and cast iron fire grate, in the manner of George Bullock, circa 1820, the central railed basket flanked by cabriole shaped uprights headed by wing mounts and terminating in cast lion paw feet, 77cm high, 102cm wide, 42cm deep Provenance: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection The present lot, particularly its protruding jambs with applied gilt mounts and paw feet, resembles the design of a Bullock fire grate which was gifted by Matthew Boulton to his son Matthew Robinson Boulton to furnish his home at Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire. In the collection at Tew exists also an unsigned drawing attributed to Bullock inscribed 'Plan of Stove in Dining room and Oak Study', which depicts the distinctive grate. Cf Sotheby's New York, 24 May 2007, lot 68.