Andiron
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Louis XV-style, gilt-bronze andiron or chenet featuring a putto bedecked with grapevines on his head and body, seated on the left side of a scrollwork structure rising up to the right. He holds up a bunch of grapes in his left hand and looks down to his right or the viewer's left. Constructed of multiple, cast parts screwed together. Right-angled bracket on reverse fits into slot of separate billet bar, DL*329490C or D. No marks. One of a pair of andirons with billet bars, DL*329490A-D.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Catherine Walden Myer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.329490A
label: catalog number
content: 329490A
label: accession number
content: 87896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
label: Object Type
content: andirons
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilding material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (hardware material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 7/8 in x 12 in x 6 1/8 in; 40.3225 cm x 30.48 cm x 15.5575 cm