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 rose garlands on his head and body, seated on the right side of a scrollwork structure rising up to the left. He holds up roses in his right hand and looks down to his left or the viewer's right. 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.329490B
label: catalog number
content: 329490B
label: accession number
content: 87896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Andirons
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: 16 1/8 in x 12 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 40.9575 cm x 30.7975 cm x 13.97 cm