Fire Tongs to Andiron Set, ca. 1770

  • American

Brass and iron

  • Overall: 38 1/16 × 3 3/16 × 1 3/4 inches (96.7 × 8.1 × 4.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

1995.2.4

On View

  • American: Whitby Hall, Drawing Room, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

John Walton, Inc. (Jewett City, Connecticut, USA)

1966-1994, William K. duPont (Wilmington, Delaware, USA)

Leigh Keno American Antiques

1995-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 69.

American, Fire Tongs to Andiron Set, ca. 1770, brass and iron. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 1995.2.4.