Andiron
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Baroque-style andiron with a brass, banded-ball-and-vase upright on cylindrical plinth atop a scrollwork apron with S-curved legs ending in flat, rectangular, stepped platform feet. Two-part upright, both parts hollow cast and vertically seamed. Diamond-faceted billet bar flattens at front and extends forward past the legs to end in an upturned scroll. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. Secondary rear leg is tenoned through billet bar. No marks. One of a pair, 1978.0989.243-.244.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1978.0939.244
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.244
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (upright material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought. (legs, apron, billet bar, internal rod material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/8 in x 14 1/4 in x 19 1/4 in; 40.9575 cm x 36.195 cm x 48.895 cm