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Pair Of Handyside Cast Iron Campana Urns & Plinths

Stock No

N2XU5

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2021
  • £4,750.00 Pair
  • €5,539 Euro
  • $5,940 US Dollar

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Item Description

A pair of wonderfully patinated Handyside Cast Iron Campana Urns c.1870s

This stunning pair of garden urns of Campana form. The body decorated with a foliate frieze and inverted egg and dart rim, with satyrs mask lobed loop handles. With a rising fluted circular foot and square raised base standing on associated plinths with wreath motif to one side. The urns retaining their original crusty flaky paint, giving them a perfect patination.

Andrew Handyside bought the Britannia Iron Works in 1848, and manufactured several ornamental vases in classical purity, form and ornament. Receiving distinctions at the Great Exhibition in 1850, the quality of their casts were exceptional and became more exceptional with time.

Item Info

Seller Location

North Yorkshire, Yorkshire

Item Dimensions

H: 104cm W: 46cm D: 46cm

Period

19th Century

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Location

North Yorkshire, Yorkshire

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Contact No

+44(0)7771 962494

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