Andiron
Andiron
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- Description
- Arts-and-Crafts andiron with a rectangular-framed, pierced and chased screen depicting a bat at lower right swooping up to eat a fly at top left. Screen slides horizontally atop a cylindrical pedestal on a horizontal base ending in knopped feet. Incurved billet bar has a cast brass cover that extends past the log stop. Hexagonal steeples for finials on screen and legs and for log stop. Multiple cast parts are screwed and bolted together. No marks. One of a pair, DL*387147A-B.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- andiron
- Object Type
- andirons
- date made
- 1885 - 1915
- place made
- United Kingdom: England
- place used
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- brass (all parts of upright, billet bar cover, log stop material)
- iron, wrought (billet bar material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 1/2 in x 9 in x 22 1/8 in; 52.07 cm x 22.86 cm x 56.1975 cm
- ID Number
- DL.387147B
- catalog number
- 387147B
- accession number
- 175755
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Miss Mary E. Maxwell
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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