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A PAIR OF FEDERAL BRASS ANDIRONS
A PAIR OF FEDERAL BRASS ANDIRONS

PHILADELPHIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FEDERAL BRASS ANDIRONS
Philadelphia, late 18th century
Each with acorn finial above a ring and urn shaft over a stepped plinth with incised spreadwing eagle and shield grasping arrows and an olive branch above a shaped skirt, on spurred cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet backed by similar urn-shaped log stops
22¾in. high (2)

拍品專文

The urn-and-plinth form seen on these andirons illustrates a regional preference favored by Philadelphia-area braziers of the late eighteenth century. More unusual, however, is the engraved and chased eagle decoration on the plinths. For a pair of similar andirons with varying eagle motifs, see Ginsburg & Levy advertisement, Antiques (August 1950), p. 163.