A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CAST-BRASS ANDIRONS

For a similar pair of andiroms see Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman, 16 January 1998, lot 209. Further similar examples illustrated in Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer's The Brass Book, (Exton, PA, 1978), p. 59 and in Donald L. Fennimore's Metalwork in Early America, Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection, (Winterthur, DE, 1996), p. 139.