Andiron
date: label: date made
content: 1885 - 1915
notes: label: Description
content: Arts-and-Crafts andiron with a rectangular-framed, pierced and chased screen depicting a single-masted, square-sailed boat, possibly medieval Anglo-Saxon in date, with one oarsman. Screen slides horizontally atop a cylindrical pedestal on a horizontal base ending in knopped feet. Incurved billet bar has a cast brass cover that extends past the log stop. Hexagonal steeples for finials on screen and legs, and for log stop. Multiple cast parts are screwed and bolted together. No marks. One of a pair, DL*387147A-B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Miss Mary E. Maxwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.387147A
label: catalog number
content: 387147A
label: accession number
content: 175755
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
label: Object Type
content: andirons
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (all parts of upright, billet bar cover, log stop material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (billet bar material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 1/2 in x 9 in x 22 1/4 in; 52.07 cm x 22.86 cm x 56.515 cm