In the Charles II style, the shaped bases raised on claw feet, with vase-shaped bodies and figure finials, each formed as a putto, one with a shovel, the other with bellows, chased in relief with busts and satyr masks amidst foliage, each marked on reverse of base, with later ebonised wood display plinths
25³⁄₄ in. (65.4 cm.) high
246 oz. 8 dwt. (7,664 gr.)

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These andirons, also described as fire-dogs or chenets, are copies of unmarked examples of circa 1665 which are displayed in the Reynolds Room of Knole House in Kent, (NT. 130004), the ancestral home of the Dukes of Dorset. The prototypes were exhibited in the 1929 Park Lane exhibition, on loan from Lord Sackville, see Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate and Decorations and Orders, London, 1929, cat. no. 749, pl. XXVII.