Bellows - Fireside accessories

The bellows revives the languishing fire by bringing it air. Simple, it is made of wood and skin, sometimes reinforced with copper nails. But remaining visible at the corner of the "hearth, it also became decorative.  Functional, it becomes elegant, sober or rustic design thanks to limagination of craftsmen or designers.  The creations sonty multiple / sculpted"allegories, decorated with engraved copper plates, sometimes with arms, decorated with earthenware, porcelain...