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Andiron (feu or chenet)

Attributed to Jacques Caffiéri, probably 1750/1755

45 cm × 46 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 46 cm
Width: 45 cm
Medium: chased and gilded bronze and cast iron
Kind: Decorative Art
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Gift of George D. Widener and Eleanor Widener Dixon

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 45 cm × 46 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made probably 1750/1755. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Gift of George D. Widener and Eleanor Widener Dixon.
How was it made?: Chased and gilded bronze and cast iron.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.