Andiron
Andiron
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- Description
- Knife-blade andiron with a brass multiknopped finial and applied, beaded-edge plinth block on rounded, arched legs ending in penny feet. Finial is cast hollow in two halves and peened on top of upright, which is tenoned through the legs. Billet bar tenoned into plinth of upright. No marks. One of a pair, DL*388201A-B.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- andiron
- Object Type
- andirons
- date made
- 1815-1830
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- brass (finial, plinth block material)
- iron, wrought (upright, legs, billet bar material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in; 49.53 cm x 26.67 cm x 39.37 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388201B
- catalog number
- 388201B
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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