On View
Not on viewAndirons
Dateca. 1840
Terms
- Andirons
- Brass
- Iron
Dimensions43.15 × 27.92 × 48.22 cm (17 × 11 × 19 in.)
MarkingsLabel: "The dishes, and the mirror, and the andirons, and the blue soup tureen, were the property of William and Eliza Melvin of Concord. Eliza Melvin gave them to her granddaughter Edith Melvin (daughter of her son James Melvin)."
Credit LineGift of Mrs. James Melvin
Object numberH2281B
DescriptionPair of andirons, with large brass ball uprights. Cast brass front legs, reverse curved with snake feet, sharp ankles and spurs at knees. Iron bolt fixed through center of front legs and front of log rests, on to which uprights are screwed. Uprights each of two sections of hollow cast brass. Turnings on lower sections: wide low base, two low wide reels, swelled bulb section, reel, straight ring. Turnings on upper sections: ring, two tall narrow reels seperated by ring, very large ball at top with two rings around center. Much smaller uprights with turnings that echo those at front riveted behind front uprights. Log rests are flat iron bars bent at right angle at back for rear legs. Brass plate over log rest between large and small uprights. Moveable lugs.
