Fireplace Cast Iron Bookends - Cherubs

A pair of 19th-century cast iron cherubs, sourced from central France and never meant to be bookends until Sylvie decided they were. Originally a pair of chenets, the small iron firedogs that held the logs in the hearths of grand French kitchens, the cherubs perch on scrolling iron pedestals, the rust deepened into the cast and softened by a century of fire. Sylvie sets them on a shelf with a stack of old French books between them, the kind with soft cloth spines and titles in French.

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