A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE BRIGHT-CUT DECORATED BRASS ANDIRONS

According to information recorded at the time of the sale of these andirons in 1995, they were purportedly owned by a former president of Johns Hopkins University who became an antiques dealer after retirement in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The andirons were subsequently acquired by noted Virginia artist Julien Binford (1909-1997), a professor of painting at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, before entering the renowned collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Deyerle.