PROBABLY PHILADELPHIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The urn tops and tall columnar shafts of these andirons are characteristics of andirons made in Philadelphia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a related pair, see Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer, The Brass Book (Exton, Pennsylvania, 1978), p. 69, figs. A and C. Additionally, the plinths are engraved with baskets of flowers on the fronts and oval paterae on the sides, similar to those illustrated in Schiffer, p. 50, fig. B.