拍品 890
  • 890

A VERY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF ENGLISH CAST BRASS AND WROUGHT IRON ANDIRONS, CIRCA 1750 |

估價
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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描述

  • Height 13 1/2 in. by Width 6 1/8 in. by Depth 12 1/2 in.; 34.3 by 17.3 by 31.8 cm.

來源

Peter Eaton Antiques, Newburyport, Massachusetts, November 1999;
Vogel Collection no. 664.

Condition

Each in overall fine condition. Wear, discoloration, residue and pitting commensurate with age and use.
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拍品資料及來源

A nearly identical pair is illustrated in Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer, The Brass Book: American, English, and European, Fifteenth century through 1850, (Exton, PA: Schiffer Pub., 1978), p. 39, fig. A. A closely related pair is in the collection of Winterthur Museum and is illustrated in Donald L. Fennimore, Iron at Winterthur, (Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2004), no. 89A, pp. 186-7.