Andiron
date: label: date made
content: 1770 - 1790
notes: label: Description
content: Knife-blade andiron with brass polyhedron and spiral flame finial on low-arched legs ending in penny feet. Hollow-cast, vertically-seamed finial is peened on top of the tall, flat-faced, columnar upright, which is tenoned through the legs. Stepped billet bar is tenoned into the rectangular base or plinth of the upright. No marks. Only one; not acquired as part of a pair.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0939.245
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.245
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (upright, legs, billet bar material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (finial material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in x 15 3/8 in; 55.245 cm x 29.845 cm x 39.0525 cm