拍品 1078
  • 1078

AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE CAST BRASS AND WROUGHT IRON ANDIRONS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1740 |

估價
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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描述

  • Height 27 3/4 in. by Width 15 3/4 in. by Depth 21 in.; 70.5 by 40 by 53.3 cm.

來源

Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, December 1977;
Vogel Collection no. 227.

Condition

Wear, tarnish and minor losses to the iron commensurate with age and use. One of the log posts is detached but retained. Dirt and residue consistent with use.
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拍品資料及來源

A nearly identical pair is in the collection of Wright’s Ferry Mansion (see Joe K. Kindig III, Wright's Ferry Mansion: The Collection, (Columbia, PA: Von Hess Foundation, in association with Antique Collectors' Club, Wappingers Falls, NY, 2005), p. 168, no. 60). Another closely related pair is in the collection of Winterthur Museum and is illustrated in Donald L. Fennimore, Iron at Winterthur, (Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2004), no. 90, pp. 188-9.