andiron
date: label: date made
content: 1802-1812
notes: label: Description
content: Ball-top andiron with a compressed-ball and incised-cylinder pedestal on double C-scroll cabriole legs ending in flat, stepped, spade-shaped feet; cast, stepped billet bar. Two-part upright, each part cast hollow in halves and seamed vertically. Legs join pedestal from below. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. No marks. One of a pair, DL*075355A-B.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Tuston (d. 1812) of Philadelphia, PA, w. 1802-1812. Attribution based on presence of pointed-knee or double C-scroll cabriole legs joined to upright from below versus side; both features appear only on andirons marked by Tuston. See Fennimore, Metalwork in Early America, cat. no. 57, p. 137. Further support for this attribution comes from the fact they came from Bainbridge, PA, about 100 miles west of Philadelphia in Lancaster County.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: T. H. Bean
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.075355A
label: catalog number
content: 75355A
label: accession number
content: 9896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (upright, legs material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (billet bar, internal rod material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 7/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 30.1625 cm x 39.0525 cm x 21.59 cm