Superb 1800's American Cast Iron Fire Back Arched Top Leaf Vine Eagle Charleston Iron Foundry. With Arched Top, Raised Design Leaf and Vine along Top Edge, wth Eagle Beneath Flanked Bby Columns, and Beneath the Eagle the Letters: CHARLESTON. Manufactured by Charleston Iron Foundry likely between 1805 and 1820. Charleston, South Carolina. Measures 23 1/8" x 23 1/4". See diagonal crack that does not compromise the integrity of this piece. See Also MESDA Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Winston Salem, North Carolina For Very Similar Fire Back in Their Collection.
Notes: See diagonal crack that does not compromise the integrity of this piece.
Consistent with age and use.
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