Lot 311
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A PAIR OF FEDERAL ENGRAVED BRASS ANDIRONS, by Richard Wittingham, New York, 1800-1825, each with turned ball finial above a stepped plinth, the plinth engraved with a farm house, on spurred arched legs with ball feet and iron billet bar, each stamped on back of plinth R. WITTINGHAM NEW YORK--19½in. high (2)

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A PAIR OF FEDERAL ENGRAVED BRASS ANDIRONS, by Richard Wittingham, New York, 1800-1825, each with turned ball finial above a stepped plinth, the plinth engraved with a farm house, on spurred arched legs with ball feet and iron billet bar, each stamped on back of plinth R. WITTINGHAM NEW YORK--19½in. high (2)

Lot Essay

A virtually identical pair of andirons, marked by Wittingham, are illustrated in Schiffer, The Brass Book, Pennsylvania, 1978, pp 75-76.

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