
Michael Lake
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Provenance:
Ex Casterton Hall, Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria
The design of the above 'dog' grate is similar to one now housed in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Originally thought to have been made by the Sheffield firm of Henry Longden & Co., the V & A's grates attribution was later amended with the discovery of a period trade-card of a London iron-founder called Henry Jackson of 150 Saffron Hill near Smithfield market. The engravings to Jackson's trade card illustrate two similar grates to the V & A's example which include characteristic Adam influenced vase-shaped finials, seven-ball mouldings and applied oval panels decorated with swags. As such it therefore seems likely that the offered lot (which was apparently originally supplied with a matching cast-iron fender, decorated to match the grate) is also by Jackson.