Antique Andirons, Firedogs & Chenets

Stock: 12094

A pair of large Bronze andirons in the Baroque style. Forged and wrought in dark patinated bronze, seated on large scrolled bases the central features are two winged mythical beasts, between pairs of classical columns ascending in tiers with finials, scrolls, pans and foliate decoration at various levels. French mid 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
External	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms	9 1⁄8" 23 cms

Stock: 11870

A spectacular pair of silvered bronze dragon and lion chenet in the Louis XIV / early Rococo manner, with the dragons wings outstretched mounted on scrolled and incised Cartouches inset with the Lions integrated in the structure, peering through the openings, their haunches forming the back supports. French,19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	15" 38 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 7645

A pair of French Louis XVI brass chenets with urn finials above tapering shafts and Pan or Dionysiac-winged satyr masks...previously with center fender bar.
French, circa 1880.

Notes: Satyrs from the Greek, or Fauns from the Roman, are described as roguish but faint-hearted folk.... subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly...possibly even flakey ! As Dionysian creatures they are lovers of wine and women, and they are ready for every physical pleasure. They roam to the music of pipes (auloi), cymbals, castanets, and bagpipes, and they love to dance with the nymphs, with whom they are obsessed, and whom they often pursue, and have a special form of dance called sikinnis. Because of their love of wine, they are often represented holding wine cups, and appear often in the decorations on wine cups.

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	width	height	depth
	9 1⁄2" 24.1 cms	21 1⁄2" 54.6 cms	9" 22.9 cms

Stock: 11812

A large pair of Victorian brass andirons in the form of pierced balusters, fronted by winged female mythological standing figures.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms

Stock: 11955

A pair of burnished brass Rococo style fire dogs in the form of winged Griffins seated on decorated cushions on scrolled bases. English 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	11" 28 cms	16 7⁄8" 43 cms	14 5⁄8" 37 cms

Stock: 11902

A VERY LARGE PAIR OF CAST IRON FIREDOGS IN THE BAROQUE MANNERIST STYLE, one surmounted with a griffin the other a lion both rampant & holding scrolls each with a Latin motto " QVID RETRIBVAM DO ( God Be Thanked.) and SEQUOR NEC INFERIOR ( I follow but am not Inferior ) the motto of the Crew family referring to loyalty to a monarch. Inscribed on ribbons held by the Heraldic beasts, scrolled capitals over florally decorated shafts and horned Satyrs over arched bases centred with lion masks. English, 19th century.

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	width	height
	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms

Stock: 11106

A pair of large Fire Dogs in the English Charles II manner with pierced brass ornamentation, fretted convex roundels in latten, on cast iron dogs.
English 1930.

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	width	height	depth
	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms	23 3⁄8" 59.5 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms

Stock: 11667

A pair of brass chenet / fire-dogs in the Rococo manner, generously flowing, scrolled with floral detail and supporting winged cherubs holding flaming torches aloft.
French, 19th century.

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	Width	height	depth
	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms

Stock: 11669

A handsome pair of large burnished brass andirons in the form of Lions Rampant, roaring to left and right standing on stylised scrolled and floral mounts in the Baroque manner. English, 19th century.

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	Width	height	depth
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 11415

A pair of wrought iron & brass andirons in the Louis XIV Baroque manner, with gadrooned baluster tops over larger urns seated on chased triangular plinths over scrolled legs.
English early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	14 3⁄8" 36.5 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	24" 61 cms

Stock: 11197

A pair of intriguing dark bronze andirons/fire dogs in the Greek Revival manner with "Genie" lamp top finials seated on fluted columns entwined with serpents drawn to the lantern flame supported on typical square Greek influence plinths on Hexagonal bases featuring Greek warriors. French early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53.2 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 11164

A pair of unusual and stylish bronze "Egyptian Cat Goddess " Fireplace andirons with stylised head mounts , large rings in the mouths and ornately cast and engraved detail on the bodies. Back / Billett bars extendable.English 19th century. .

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 10397

An impressive large pair of Arts & Crafts Reformed Gothic burnished steel andirons from the idealistic movement in the Victorian era. Superbly engineered in the Gothic Reformed manner, these feature three graduated " Wedding Cake " Spires decorated with ascending Puginesque floral detail and applied with an inscribed Celtic floral cartouche, the faceted champfered rings on each over the integral stands which house Triple Dolphin Heraldic Shields, English late 19th century.

COMMENT : " Clear linear character and honest craftsmanship. "

SCALE : The second biggest andirons in London, the first being stock no. 9099, the Oscar winning Mrs Miniver bronze Florentine pair.

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	width	height	depth
Maximum	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	46" 116.8 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms

Stock: 10563

A small pair of antique brass andirons in the Baroque manner.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	18 1⁄2" 47 cms

Stock: 10220

A pair of brass and iron Baluster topped Fire Dogs, each with ball spires above lion masks with rings, between round arch foliate feet.

English, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms

Stock: 10114

CHATEAU DE BLOIS, LOUIS XII JEANNE D'ARC. A pair of remarkable High Gothic Nickel Plated Brass Andirons. A shield on each arched crocketed lancet at the base , with a Porcupine, the Heraldic Beast of Louis XII, identical to that on a Portal of the wing built by him at the Chauteau de Blois in the Loire Valley, with associations of Joan of Arc. She set out from there to deliver Orleans from the English in 1429. French 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
Maximum	17 7⁄8" 45.5 cms	32 1⁄8" 81.5 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 10067

A pair of superb gilt bronze andirons in the richest Baroque manner. the finial's of fleur-de-lys design above triangular shaped stem inset with foliage above winged cherub masks flanked & terminating with stylised Dolphins on bowed gilt bronze frame and circular bases accompanied by rope twist fender terminating with fleur de-leys tips. French 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 9986

A Pair of Aesthetic Movement Brass Andirons with moulded and incised standards on stylized scrolled legs, centred by fan pendants.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 27.9 cms	18" 45.7 cms	17" 43.2 cms

Stock: 9115

A pair of cast-iron Art Nouveau fire dogs each with a repousse copper panel depicting a geometric rose. Reg. Mark 1906.
Possibly the work of Margaret Gilmore one of the finest metalsmiths in Scotland of the early 1900's who worked alongside Charles Rennie MacKintosh. The Mackintosh Rose is clearly stated in these fire dogs.

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	width	height	depth
Each	7 1⁄8" 18 cms	12" 30.5 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 8900

A superb pair of tall silver plated brass firedogs of classical form with campana urn finials atop fluted tapering columns on circular floral and gadrooned bases. Shown here with a 'ducks nest' grate.
English 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 9109

ELIZABETHAN BRONZE ANDIRONS :
A substantial, tall and heavy pair of cast bronze antique firedogs in the Elizabethan manner. Dated 1561 .The attatched image shows an identical pair in the Neo Gothic stone chimneypiece in the long drawing room in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, a Norman Castle dating from 1153 which was reconfigured in the 1920s by the Eighth Earl of the Berkeley family in continuous residence for 800 years, into a stately home which might suggest that the identical andirons shown in the advert from the Connoisseur Magazine in 1920 shown as the last image below were purchased by The Georgian Galleries, King St., St James in London.
English 19th century, possibly earlier.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	15" 38 cms	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	25" 63.5 cms

Stock: 11168

A pair of 20th century cast iron and brass baluster fire dogs in the Baroque manner.

20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 13⁄16" 25 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms

Stock: 10463

A pair of substantial 17th century Flemish Baroque style burnished cast iron andirons of turned baluster form with tall brass top finials and " C" scrolled bases. 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	11" 28 cms

Stock: 10009

A pair of wrought iron goose neck Baroque style Fire Dogs.
18th century

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	Width	Height	Depth
	9 1⁄8" 23 cms	18 11⁄16" 47.5 cms	17 11⁄16" 45 cms

Stock: 9881

Pair of heavy ornate wrought iron Renaissance style fire dogs with wolfhound heads on the finials.
English 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	13" 33 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	30 1⁄4" 77 cms

Stock: 9853

A pair of 20th century heavy cast iron fire dogs with ornamented columns and a central crest initialled IHS above arched double form bases.
I20th century in the Jacobean manner.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11" 28 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 8910

A pair of Arts & Crafts, wrought iron andirons, with open leaf tops over 'hot twist' applied horse shoes & scrolled base with hand forged feet. English late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄4" 41.5 cms	27" 68.5 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms