With their palmette and gadrooned urn finials and fluted columnar shafts, this popular style of andirions represents the height of the Philadelphia Rococo as seen in the brazier's art. Related to a pair of andirions signed by Daniel King in the collection of the Winterthur Museum (58.1997.1,2), the pattern of the andirons illustrated here were described in a bill from Daniel King to John Cadwalader in 1770 as, "to one Pare of the Best Rote fier Dogs With Corinthen Coloms----#25." An identical pair was also made by King for Vincent Loockerman of Dover, Delaware. The attribution to King is further strengthened in the similarity of manufacturing techniques between the signed example and the andirons illustrated here.

Daniel King (1731-1806) was active from 1760 to c. 1788 as a brazier in Philadelphia, where account book evidence indicates he manufactured high end brasswares for both the elite of that city as well as fellow craftsmen such as master cabinetmaker Benjamin Randolph.