1810s Building and Garden Elements

Pair of American brass and wrought iron lemon on lemon andirons with double lines of beading , circular turned round plinths, and terminating on spur le...

Pair of American brass ball top finial andirons with turned ringed centered columns, squared plinths, matching log stops and terminating on spur legs with slipper feet, Early 19th ce...

American Empire serpentine fire place fender with bulbous ringed brass ball finials, brass rail top, and pleasing scrolled artistic wire work, Philadelphia, Early 19th century.

Pair of American brass urn finial andirons with turned bulbous faceted plinths, matching urn log stops, flanking pierced galleries, double spur legs, and...

Pair of English diminutive solid cast iron whippets laying in resting position. Pair have been powder coated in the color of Charleston green , Earl...

Pair of Italian brass floral acanthus and rope motif ball top andirons with wrought iron twisted column, acanthus centered plinths, pleasing decorative scroll work and terminating on...

American diminutive complex artistic wire work and brass rail gallery fire place fender with centered wrought iron supports and base. Early 19th century.

A late George III brass bound bucket, of oval shape with the mahogany timbers held by brass bands and with a hinged brass handle. English, circa 181...

A beautiful Georgian brass and steel dog grate. The railed basket with fine engraved openwork fret consisting of scrolls and foliage, set on turned brass leg...

New York, Fan-carved mantel in the Federal taste, circa 1812 Pine Measures: 66 1/4 in. high, 90 3/8 in. wide, 13 1/4 in. deep Within the genre of carved rather than plasterwork mantels of the Federal Period, no example that has come to light is more perfectly designed or more carefully wrought than the present one, which is an amazing symphony of fans, urns, beads, and other Neo-Classical devices, all ultimately influenced by the plasterwork designs of the English architects Robert (1728–1792) and James (1732–1794) Adam. Of a type that proliferated in the area bounded by the northern New Jersey counties of Bergen and Passaic, the Hudson Valley, and western Long Island, the mantel is representative of work that flourished in the first couple of decades of the 19th century. While most of the woodwork of this style that has survived is found in interiors, various examples of exterior doors and other trim have been noted, but most examples have disappeared as a result, variously, of natural deterioration and purposeful demolition in anticipation of development. Although considerably larger in scale and more elaborate in ornament than a mantel that has been in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum since 1944 (acc. no. 44.55; photograph in Hirschl & Adler archives), the present mantel is so close in style and conception to that example that it likely originated in the same house. The Brooklyn mantel is documented as having been removed from a house built by Judge Isaac Terhune (1762–1837), an eminent lawyer and judge. The house was situated on King’s Highway, at the corner of Mansfield Place, at the edge of South Greenfield, a village in northern Gravesend, Brooklyn. A photograph of the house, taken by the German e´migre´ photographer, Eugene Armbruster (1865–1933), is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. Terhune is ultimately descended from the Dutch-Huguenot e´migre´ Albert Albertson Terhunen, who died in Flatlands, Brooklyn, in 1685.The family eventually spread out through New Amsterdam, Long Island, and Bergen County, New Jersey. Terhune’s great-grandson, also Albert (1715–1806), left a sizable estate to his six surviving children, including his second child and second son, Isaac. Judge Terhune lived in the house until his death in 1837, at which time, according to an article in The New York Times for November 27, 1910, he, having died without issue, “left the White Frame Mansion with its exquisitely carved doorway, beautiful mantels, and other interior adornments to his brother John” (Part Six, p. 11). The article continues: After the latter’s death, the house and its estate of about 70 acres passed through several owners, eventually being purchased in 1853 by Benjamin G. Hitchings [1813–1893]. The house next passed to Benjamin’s son, Hector, who had been born in the house, and then lived there for 25 years. He sold it in 1910 in partial payment for a Manhattan apartment house. After thus having been sold to a real estate developer, the Hitchings property was subdivided into Hitchings Homestead. The house survived until about 1928, at which time it was razed and a Deco-style apartment house with the address 2301 Kings Highway was constructed on the site and occupied in 1935. By 1910, the fate of the house, in an area of Brooklyn that was being rapidly developed, was becoming obvious. The Times article reported: The house has been well kept up, but fearing lest the hand of time or vandals might deal harshly with some of its choice bits of carving, Mr. Hitchings removed a few years ago a few beautifully carved wood mantels...

A Pair of English Regency Period Patinated and Ormolu Rams Head Andirons. Each is beautifully patinated with a dark patina and further accented with ormolu fittings. The body is of...

A good quality period Regency fireplace in statuary white marble, with adorned brass ormolu enrichments. The frieze with finely carved centre blocking of tied swags, ribbons and flow...

Pair of French brass flanking figural musical and foliage scrolled free standing fire place chenets, Early 19th Century.

French brass Chenet with flanking winged griffons, decorative hand chased egg and dart motif, lambs tongue motif, and terminating on rectangular plinths, Early 19th century.

A shield-shaped antefix from Thailand, early 19th century. Reclaimed from old constructions and preserved in time, these architectural details were a decorative staple in many trad...

Early 19th Century pair of Portland stone heads. The carved heads with carved neck ropes, depicting slaves, circa 1815.

A good quality 19th century English Regency cast iron hob grate. The bowed front bars with pierced fluted fret below, flanked by reeded panels with rosette paterae. Circa 1810. Wid...

A bow fronted, Georgian period, polished steel pierced fire place fender, circa 1800 Batch 74 G9404/21 UEKZ

A George III fiddleback mahogany table jardinière, of sarcophagus form with two turned handles on tapering supports, decorated with shaped panels of plain mahogany within Fine boxwoo...