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Description A pair of Arts and Crafts wrought iron and brass mounted andirons, after 17th century examples, late 19th century, the curved backplates mounted with two openwork foliate rosettes and elaborate scrolls, with billet bars to rear, 58cm high, 29.5cm wide, 37cm deepThe present andirons take their inspiration from 17th century models at Haddon Hall, which became popular with designers after it had been published in Richard Bridgens' Furniture with Candelabra and Interior Decoration, in 1838. A pair dated circa 1670 was also illustrated in Gentle and Feild, English Domestic Brass, London, 1975, fig.139. The model was most famously reimagined by Leicester-born architect and designer Ernest Gimson, who is known to have seen and sketched the Haddon Hall andirons in 1889. This lot is to be sold without reserve