POSSIBLY PHILADELPHIA, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE BRIGHT-CUT DECORATED BRASS ANDIRONS
POSSIBLY PHILADELPHIA, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
26½ in. high, 15½ in. long (2)

Provenance

Julien Binford (1909-1997), Fine Creek Mills, Virginia
Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Deyerle, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Deyerle, 27 May 1995, lot 643

Literature

Tom Armstrong, An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts (New York, 2001), p. 172.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

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.

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