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Lot 596: A PAIR OF BRASS URN-TOP ANDIRONS
Auction House: Christie's
Auction Location: New York, NY, USA
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Auction Title: Property From the Collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Auction Date: January 21, 2006
Artist or Maker: PROBABLY PHILADELPHIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Description: Probably Philadelphia, early 19th century
28 1/4 in. high (2)
Notes: The urn tops and tall columnar shafts of these andirons are characteristics of andirons made in Philadelphia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a related pair, see Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer, The Brass Book (Exton, Pennsylvania, 1978), p. 69, figs. A and C. Additionally, the plinths are engraved with baskets of flowers on the fronts and oval paterae on the sides, similar to those illustrated in Schiffer, p. 50, fig. B.
