The practical book of early American arts and crafts . PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CAST IRON STOVEPLATE BY JOHN POTTS Courtesy of Henry Chapman Mercer, Esq., Font Hill, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania DECORATIVE METAL WORK 63 Then, again, very graceful hanging lamps or Ian-thorns with glass sides, were fashioned of wrought old lamp or lanthorn, shown in the illustration(Fig. 4), made for the Philadelphia Library in 1731 andnow hanging just inside the entrance of the presentbuilding, is an excellent example of this type of lightingequipment made at an early date. Stove Plates and Fieebacks. Ma
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CAST IRON STOVEPLATE BY JOHN POTTS Courtesy of Henry Chapman Mercer, Esq., Font Hill, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania DECORATIVE METAL WORK 63 Then, again, very graceful hanging lamps or Ian-thorns with glass sides, were fashioned of wrought old lamp or lanthorn, shown in the illustration(Fig. 4), made for the Philadelphia Library in 1731 andnow hanging just inside the entrance of the presentbuilding, is an excellent example of this type of lightingequipment made at an early date. Stove Plates and Fieebacks. Many of the curiousoast-iron plates that come to light now and again Fig, 4, Wrought iron of the Library Company of Philadelphia. for a long time, regarded as firebacks, when, in truth,they are something quite different. The patient in-vestigations and assiduous collecting of Henry Chap-man Mercer, Esq., to whose painstaking antiquarianresearch we owe much in other fields also, have iden-tified them as parts of the old five-plate and six-platestoves made in the middle of the eighteenth century. It does not, at first, sound very promising to speakabout fragments of old stoves, and yet these Colonial 64 EARLY AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS stove plates have in them a leaven of art that investsthem with unusual interest. Primitive they are, to besure, but their wide variety of quaint design, the naiveconception and choice of subjects thereon depicted, andtheir dramatic elemental vigour of execution renderthem fascinating as an ingenuous expression of folk-art. Before passing to a discussion of the individual ex-amples illustrated, it is necess
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