A PAIR OF 17TH CENTURY CAST IRON AND BRASS ANDIRONS

£1,000 - £1,500

A PAIR OF 17TH CENTURY CAST IRON AND BRASS ANDIRONS

DUTCH, C.1600-50

each having a brass columnar stem, topped by a ball knop on a short balustroid stem, the lower wrought iron square section on divergent front supports wrought with scrolls and centred by a shield-shaped cartouche, with typical 'L' shaped rear supports (2)

Provenance

Mount Edgcombe, Cornwall. Similar andirons can be seen in collections at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire and Knole House, Kent (NT 129619.1)

Literature

See ter Kuile, 'Onno, Koper & Brons', Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Staatsuitgeverij 's-gravenhage, 1986, pp. 286, no.384, for a similar example, but lacking some elements.