The Butler Hoard - 1st July 2025
Lot 275
A PAIR OF 17TH CENTURY CAST IRON AND BRASS ANDIRONS
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500
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Description
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.