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Very Fine and Rare Pair Of Federal Highly Engraved Cast Bell Metal Brass And Wrought-Iron AndironsAttributed to Edward Farmer Taylor and Thomas BaileyLondon, EnglandCirca 1784-97
Height 30 in. by Width 14 1/2 in. by Depth 18 1/2 in.Condition reportFor further information on the condition of this lot please contact americana@sothebys.com ProvenanceZeke and Arthur Liverant, Stonington, CT;
Keno Auctions, Important American Furniture, Paintings, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, January 22, 2013, lot 57.Catalogue noteA very closely related pair of andirons is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (Donald L. Fennimore, Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection, (Winterthur: DE: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996), pp. 132-3, no. 53). Once thought to be a Charleston, South Carolina product, the cargo manifest of the Castle Douglas describes the shipment of "very neat large new make d[ou]ble Fire dogs with neat Eng[rave]d Princes metal obelisk pillars Claw Feet vase heads" consigned by the London braziers Edward Taylor and Thomas Bailey assuredly ascribes their origin.