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Andirons For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1920s
Pair of English Wrought Iron and Brass Ball Top Andirons, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English wrought iron and brass ball top andirons with spiral twisted columns, matching brass spiral spit hooks and terminating on scrolled decorative hand chased feet, Late 1...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Brass Andirons with Urn Finials and Pad Feet, Circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
AFP0547
A pair of antique brass andirons topped with urn finials and having pad feet in their original soft polished finish. Circa 1920s.
Dimensions:
Overall: 24-1/2" H. x 11" W....
Category
1920s Federal Vintage Andirons
Materials
Iron, Brass
Elegant English Brass Serpentine Pierced Gallery Fireplace Fender, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Elegant English brass serpentine fireplace fender with a decorative pierced gallery, single row of beading, and terminating on a molded edge base....
Category
1780s English George III Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Steel
17th-18th Century Gothic Firedogs or Andirons
Located in Amerongen, NL
17th-18th century French Gothic fire dogs made of wrought iron. The condition is good.
Category
18th Century French Gothic Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Large Gothic Bull's Head Andirons, Firedogs, 18th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
Large wrought iron fire dogs with spit hooks. These French andirons are called 'landiers' in France. This dates from the times the andirons were the main cooking equipment in the hou...
Category
18th Century French Gothic Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
18th Century French Andirons, Firedogs
Located in Amerongen, NL
18th century French Louis XV period andirons made of wrought iron. The fire dogs have spit hooks to grill food. The condition is good.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
Pair of Brass and Cast-Iron Musical Note Andirons
Located in Water Mill, NY
Pair of brass and cast-iron musical note andirons, tenn. Chrome Plate Co.
Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1925.
Category
1920s American Vintage Andirons
Materials
Brass, Iron
Louis XV Forged Iron and Cast Brass Andirons, Mid-18th Century
Located in valatie, NY
These exceptional andirons are made of forged iron and have cast brass finials and button mounts. The beds are wide and easily hold large or small logs. They have a scrolled profile ...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Iron
Wonderful French Neoclassical Gilt Dore Bronze with Black Marble Insert Chenets
Located in Roslyn, NY
Wonderful French Neoclassical Gilt Dore Bronze with Black Marble Insert Chenets.
Measures: 12.5" W x 11" H x 19" D.
Category
1920s French Neoclassical Vintage Andirons
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of English Brass Ball Top and Wrought Iron Chased Andirons, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English brass ball top and wrought iron hand chased andirons with centered spiral twisted columns, matching spiral brass urn finial spit hooks, and terminating on the origina...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
17th Century Gothic Cup Dogs, Andirons
Located in Amerongen, NL
French 17th century Gothic cup dogs. The condition is good.
Category
17th Century French Gothic Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
Sensational Rare Art Deco Andirons in Black and Gold
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Stunning pair of elegant Art Deco French andirons hand-forged with a black iron and gold brass sunburst. Stylish zig zag feet.
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Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Andirons
Materials
Brass, Iron
Rustic Blackened Wrought Iron Andirons, with Spade Shaped Finials, Circa 1920s
Located in New York, NY
AFP0525
A pair of antique blackened wrought iron andirons with delicate spade shaped finials. Circa 1920s.
Dimensions:
Overall: 11-1/2" H. x 10-1/2" W. x 15-1/2" D.
Category
1920s Arts and Crafts Vintage Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron, Iron
English Regency Brass Pierced Gallery Fire Fender. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Regency brass fire fender with pierced floral gallery, hand chase bossing, rope motif, and terminating on stylized lions paw feet. Late 18th Century.
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Andirons
Wonderful French Empire Bronze Regency Fireplace Putti Cherubs Chenets Andirons
Located in Roslyn, NY
Wonderful French empire bronze Regency fireplace putti cherubs chenets andirons.
Measures: 20" L x 7" W x 8" H.
Category
1920s French Regency Vintage Andirons
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XV Firedogs, Andirons, 18th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
18th century Louis XV firedogs made of wrought iron. The condition is good.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Large 17th Century French Andirons, Cupdogs
Located in Amerongen, NL
17th century andirons made of cast iron. These French andirons are called 'landiers' in France. This dates from the times the andirons were the main cooking equipment in the house. T...
Category
17th Century French Gothic Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
American Wrought iron and Brass Urn Finial Andirons. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
American wrought iron and brass andirons with urn top finials, scrolled circular squared plinths, spit hooks, and terminating on penny feet. ...
Category
1780s American American Colonial Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Gilded Bronze Andirons with Scrolls Attributed to Sterling Bronze Co. Circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
AFP0514
A pair of gilded bronze andirons supported on foliate form double S scrolls. The torch finials are held over the bases on a basket of C curves. Likely by the New York maker S...
Category
1920s American Georgian Vintage Andirons
Materials
Bronze, Wrought Iron
18th Century French Louis XV Andirons, Firedogs
Located in Amerongen, NL
18th century French firedogs, andirons made of wrought iron. The condition is good.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of 18th Century French Andirons
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Pair of 18th century French andirons.
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
English Nickel Silver and Wrought Iron Urn Acorn Finial Andirons. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English nickel silver and wrought iron andirons with urn fluted acorn finial tops, bulbous turned ringed plinths, matching acorn finial log stops, decorative scrolled legs, and termi...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Andirons
Materials
Nickel, Wrought Iron
Period English Brass Royalty Fire Fender, Circa 1740
Located in Hollywood, SC
Period English brass royalty fire fender with centered coat of arms depicting English, Scottish, Irish, and French insignia with hand chased flanking lion and unicorn, parrot, and fl...
Category
1740s British George II Antique Andirons
Pair of American Queens Metal Urn Finial Andirons, Philadelphia, Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American Queens metal urn on urn finial andirons with turned bulbous plinths, matching log stops, and terminating on spur legs with slipper feet.
Last quarter of 18th Cent...
Category
1770s American American Colonial Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
17th Century French Cupdogs, Andirons
Located in Amerongen, NL
Wrought iron fire dogs with spit hooks to grill food and a cup to keep drinks or soup warm.
We have a unique and specialized collection of antique and used fireplace accessories con...
Category
17th Century French Gothic Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
Pair of Philadelphia Brass Flanking Urn Finial Andirons with Engravings, C 1790
By Philadelphia Museum
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of Philadelphia brass flanking urn finial andirons with swags, centered fluted columns, and resting on squared chased engraved medallion plinths with spur legs and ball & claw f...
Category
1790s American American Colonial Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Louis XV Gilt Bronze Chenets Andirons
Located in Miami, FL
Louis XV gilt bronze chenets. Illustrated with flame finials on top of urns and balustrade. Garland draped with leafage. Original flange support. Featuring images of Louis VI...
Category
1750s French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Bronze, Iron
17th c. French Louis XIII Antique Andirons
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Very nice and simple 17th century French antique andirons.
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
Pair of English Decorative Brass and Wrought Iron Andirons, Circa 1750
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English brass and wrought iron andirons with hand chased faces on a fluted finial top, bulbous fluted centered column, triangular plinths with chased faces and lions paw moti...
Category
1750s English George II Antique Andirons
17th Century Louis XIII Andirons, Firedogs
Located in Amerongen, NL
A so called 'paire de marriage' (wedding pair) whereby both families would order 1 andirons from the same blacksmith to for a couple for the new family hearth. Beautifully wrought ir...
Category
17th Century French Louis XIII Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of American Lemon Top Andirons Boston, Howes Co.
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American bell brass lemon top andirons with turned rounded squared plinths, matching finial lemon log stops, and terminating on spurred legs...
Category
18th Century and Earlier American Antique Andirons
Pair of American Classical Andirons
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good pair of brass and wrought iron andirons, the urn finials over hand hammered shafts, the upper section cylindrical, the lower section square divided by ringed collar, standing o...
Category
1920s American American Classical Vintage Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
American Brass and Wire Fire Fender. Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
American brass and wire fire fender with brass rail top and pleasing decorative swag wire work. 18th Century
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Andirons
Pair of American Brass Ball Top and Spur Andirons. Boston, Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American brass andirons with ball tops, turned bulbous faceted plinths, matching ball finial log stops, double spur legs, and terminating on stylized penny feet. Boston, Lat...
Category
18th Century and Earlier American Antique Andirons
18th Century French Andirons - Firedogs
Located in Amerongen, NL
Beautiful and decorative andirons with female front. Louis XV period. Made of cast iron. They are in a good condition.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
English Brass Serpentine Engraved Fire Place Fender with Flanking Trivets C 1760
Located in Hollywood, SC
English brass fire place fender with central engraved King Neptune figure, intertwined engraved foliage motif with decorative flanking engraved dragons an...
Category
1760s English George II Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Steel
English Period Serpentine Pierced Gallery & Dragon Fire Fender, Circa 1720
Located in Hollywood, SC
English period serpentine fire fender with hand chased centered decorative floral basket flanked by engraved dragons , and surrounded by upper and lower molded edges. Early 18th cent...
Category
18th Century and Earlier British George I Antique Andirons
Pair of 18th Century Andirons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of 18th Century Solid Brass Andirons
Category
Mid-18th Century Unknown Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Sphinx Chenets
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet.
Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet...
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Antique Andirons
Materials
Bronze
Pair of American Wrought Iron and Brass Melon Top Andirons, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American wrought iron and brass melon top andirons with turned centered column, spit hooks, and terminating on stylized penny feet. Note: Centered columns of andirons were ma...
Category
18th Century and Earlier American American Classical Antique Andirons
Pair of American Brass Acorn Andirons, Circa 1790, Philadelphia or Baltimore
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of Elegant American brass acorn andirons with ribbing on finials, engraved hand chasing on squared plinths, spur legs, and terminating on stepped p...
Category
18th Century and Earlier American Antique Andirons
Pair of Small Dutch Brass Andirons, 17th Century
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Busts of a queens on spreading mermaid legs, with turned vases on top.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Dutch Renaissance Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pair of 18th Century English Andirons
Located in London, GB
A pair of 18th century, English polished wrought iron firedogs. The scrolled feet surmounted by gunmetal fluted shaped finial and engraved brass mask top. Good quality.
Height: 595 ...
Category
18th Century British Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Italian Andirons
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of Italian wrought iron hand chased bronze andirons adorned by mythological figures with dolphin and swan motif ending on chased scrolled legs.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Andirons
Impressive Pair of 18th Century Brass and Iron Andirons
Located in Greenwich, CT
Impressive pair of 18th Century brass and iron andirons, the chased brass urn finials having foliate decoration, over barley twist shafts with gadrooned ball finials
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pair of 18th Century Basket Top Andirons
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine pair of 18th century blacksmith made basket top andirons, the square shaft with center collar and two spit supports, standing on scrolled legs...
Category
1720s French Baroque Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of American Wrought Iron and Brass Urn Finial Andirons. Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American wrought iron and brass urn finial andirons with scrolled twisted center column, terminating on the original scrolled legs with penny feet. Center column was derived ...
Category
1770s American American Colonial Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Pair of American Wrought Iron Ball Top Andirons with Penny Feet. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American wrought iron ball top andirons with rear swinging cranes, centered rings , spit hooks , and resting on scrolled legs with penny feet. 1...
Category
1780s American American Colonial Antique Andirons
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Italian Wrought Iron and Brass Andirons
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of Italian wrought iron and brass andirons with decorative floral motif, decorative centered cross bar, and terminating on scrolled legs. Dealers please call for trade price.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron, Brass
Pair of American Wrought Iron & Brass Urn Finial Andirons . Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of American wrought iron andirons with brass urn finial tops, scrolled decorative spit hook , and terminating on penny feet. Column...
Category
1780s American American Colonial Antique Andirons
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Large Scale Set of Andirons
Located in Nantucket, MA
Large Scale Set of Steel Andirons with crossbars
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Andirons
Materials
Steel
18th Century English Folk-Art Andirons in Polished Steel
Located in Greenwich, CT
A fine pair of 18th century English andirons made by a local blacksmith in the folk-art manner with heart and clamshell spit supports over arched feet with shaped clips to back shaft...
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Andirons
Materials
Steel
Large, heavy French Gothic Andirons or Firedogs, 17th Century
Located in Amerongen, NL
17th century French Gothic andirons made of cast iron. The andirons have spit hooks to grill food and cups to warm drinks. In France this type of very old andirons are called 'landie...
Category
17th Century French Gothic Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
Large 18th Century French Andirons, Firedogs
Located in Amerongen, NL
Large 18th Century French Andirons, Firedogs. Louis XV period. The condition is good.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Andirons
Materials
Iron
Antique and Vintage Andirons
A set of antique or vintage andirons is a staple accessory, part of the fireplace tools you’ll want to collect for keeping a neat and elegant fireplace in your home.
Using andirons in a fireplace elevates the fire, ensuring more air can get to the logs thus keeping a fire burning longer. Andirons also encourage ventilation and may also prevent smoke from working its way into your living room or bedroom.
Think of these accessories as part of an upright metal support system to optimize your fire. Antique andirons are basically u-shaped brackets with a curved end that come in pairs and are largely quite simple in structure, but the design of this household necessity has improved over time. Outwardly decorative andirons have become available since their debut because one should never underestimate the style quotient of an attractive hearth.
Andirons, which earned the nickname “firedogs” given their similarity in form to a pair of upright canines, are believed to be the oldest fireplace furnishings. They have been used broadly since at least the late Iron Age. Before iron became the material of choice, stone andirons did a suitable job of balancing the logs in a fire and adding a sense of symmetry to the hearth. Fire baskets, like the combination of andirons and a grate, afforded an opportunity to layer logs in a fire rather than delicately stacking them on andirons.
Today, andirons can be found in bronze and brass, too, which contrast wonderfully with a mantel carved from dark marble, for example, and add dimension to what might otherwise be a subdued space. And while people aren’t cooking in the fireplace anymore, andirons’ spit hooks offered an opportunity to roast meat or rest the pokers that you typically would’ve kept fireside.
During the Renaissance, andirons became especially ornate and even figurative, taking on human forms as well as marine life such as dolphins. Art Deco–era andirons are particularly exquisite. While the accessories are frequently characterized by rich geometric angles and sculptural curves, attributes that we know of most Art Deco furniture, artisans of the period also looked to what was by then a long tradition of designing andirons in the shape of animals and reptiles.
Adding fashionable antique or vintage andirons will not only improve the quality of a fire but can also elevate your space as well as the fireside experience. Find modern andirons, Art Nouveau andirons and other varieties today on 1stDibs.
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