Andiron

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black andirons, two of them, with a tall, thin, tapered finial on top, the finial having a small sphere at the top, then a large sphere followed by a short cylinder and two stacked discs. Underneath the cylinder are two curved metal bars bent into a half rectangle shape with feet at the ends. The half rectangles are open on one side and closed on the other. The metal is shiny with a three-legged base ending in a ball. The andirons are on a gray background. The title of the image is "Andiron".