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Adams Serpentine Grate
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Adams Serpentine Grate

1900 - 1920
Description

Adams style cast iron grate with serpentine brass front, in original very good untouched condition.

19.5" high

26.25" wide

9.5" depth

Grate width 16.5"

Total depth 13"

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Fernyhough Antiques Ltd has dated this Adam Style Fire Grate to the 1910s.

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Description
Adams style cast iron grate with serpentine brass front, in original very good untouched condition.

19.5" high

26.25" wide

9.5" depth

Grate width 16.5"

Total depth 13"

FREE DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND

EXCLUDES SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS

fig 1. An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate.
fig 1. Adams Serpentine Grate

FOR EUROPEAN AND WORLDWIDE DELIVERIES PLEASE EMAIL FOR QUOTE

You are welcome to view this item at our showroom, please phone ahead of visiting.

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Alternatively you are welcome to collect at our large warehouse and showrooms in Derbyshire (20 minutes north of Birmingham).
Fernyhough Antiques Ltd

We have a large and ever changing selection of genuine good quality antique furniture and accessories of all types.

Date of Manufacture

Fernyhough Antiques Ltd has dated this Adam Style Fire Grate to the 1910s.

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Fernyhough Antiques Ltd
Fernyhough Antiques Ltd
Sellingantiques verified Since Jan 2011

Seven showrooms of excellent quality antiques and decorative items.

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Archive I An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate.

Adams Serpentine Grate

Archive II An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate. View II
Archive III An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate. View III
Archive IV An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate. View IV
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Fernyhough Antiques Ltd
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The Elms Business Park
Appleby Magna
Derbyshire
DE12 7AP
United Kingdom
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Fernyhough Antiques Ltd
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An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate.
Adams Serpentine Grate
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An Adam style fireplace dog grate crafted from cast iron and brass, featuring a serpentine pierced apron, urn finials, and a relief urn backplate.
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  • ObjectFireplace Grates
  • Period1900 - 1920
  • StyleAdam Style
  • MaterialCast Iron, Brass
  • ColourBlack and Gold
  • MotifsSerpentine front, Urn backplate relief, Pierced brass apron, Fluted legs and finials

This Adam style fireplace dog grate originates from 1910 and follows the grand Regency design aesthetic. Constructed from cast iron and brass, it combines a black finish with bright gold highlights on the apron, front feet, and decorative finials. The serpentine front incorporates a pierced brass apron below horizontal cast iron fire bars, flanked by fluted uprights with ball finials. The tall arched backplate displays a classical urn in relief, framed by hanging swags and smaller finial motifs. Standing on four turned fluted legs with pad feet, the assembly measures 50 cm high, 67 cm wide, and 33 cm in total depth, with a grate width of 42 cm and a depth of 24 cm. Positioned on a fireplace hearth, this period fire basket suits a working or decorative fireplace in a drawing room, dining room, or library. The original cast iron and brass surfaces show authentic patination appropriate for an untouched antique accessory of this era. It provides a striking focal point for traditional interior settings, bringing classic neoclassical decorative elements directly to the chimney breast without the need for extensive structural modification.

FAQs

Designed in the late 18th-century Neoclassical tradition popularised by architect Robert Adam, these grates feature classical motifs such as urns, drapery swags, and serpentine fronts with pierced brasswork.

Traditional fire grates from this period combine heavy cast iron for the backplate and fuel basket with polished or cast brass for decorative elements, such as front legs, finials, and aprons.

Authentic period grates display hand-finished casting marks, square-headed nuts or hand-cut threads, natural surface oxidisation on ironwork, and subtle irregularities in pierced brass aprons.

A period fire grate can be positioned inside an open brick fireplace, used as a decorative focal point in a non-working hearth with LED candles, or displayed alongside minimalist stone surrounds.

Cast iron parts should be treated with black grate polish or iron paste to prevent rust, while brass components require gentle polishing with a non-abrasive metal cleaner and a soft cloth.
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