Lot 75
75
Property of A CONNECTICUT COLLECTOR
A CAST-IRON STOVE-PLATE

Details
A CAST-IRON STOVE-PLATE
PROBABLY PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1762

The sand cast square fireback in three registers, the top with relief double-arch centering flower-and-heart and urn-and-flower motifs over a band with raised letters "George Ross George Steven" above a lozenge enclosing the year "1762"--24in. high, 26in. wide

Lot Essay

A similar cast-iron stove-plate, presumably from the same foundry, was sold at Christie's, January 20 and 21, 1989, Lot 523; an additional possibly related example is illustrated in Henry J. Kaufman, The American Fireplace, (New York, 1972), p. 65.